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Arapiles Accident 8/6/08 11-Jun-2008 At 10:06:04 PM Richard

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On 11/06/2008 bomber pro wrote:
>radios are the preferred system these days. no confusion and no screaming
>into the wind only to hear a
>vague ....WHAT!

"i'm in a jet aircraft ...what could go wrong ??!"....more technology will not help..what do you do when the batteries go flat, or you drop the thing..?

There should be no problem if you can't hear your partner..make a fail safe assumption and keep them on belay. OK, they'll be slow pulling up the rope, but hey, what's better..to take them of belay, or loose a few minutes? Since they should only be taking up the rope if they are ready to belay, once all the rope is up, start climbing. They should have made the same fail-safe assumption, and pull the rope up through the belay device.

Works best with a regular partner, but so long as you don't take them off belay, and they put you on belay to pull the rope up.. there's no need to talk. I'm allways bemused by climbers yelling every micro action they'd doing back and forth to each other.