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Ankles busted in the Bluies	22-Apr-2009 At 11:20:26 AM	BigMike
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On 21/04/2009 ambyeok wrote: >On 21/04/2009 BigMike wrote: >>If he fell 15 metres the rope would have had to be less than 30 metres >>long for that to >>happen, surely? > >Lets check my understanding. If one end of the rope is secure in the belay >device then we have 30m out on the other side. This means a max fall of >15m before the loose end reaches the height of the autoblock. On a 20m >rap that would have caught it, right? Yeah that sounds right. For some reason I was visualising him tying together two ropes. If he fell 15m, he might have stayed off the ground with a knot in the end, especially if he had a 50m rope.

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