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Belaying from the rope loop 5-Apr-2012 At 11:41:37 PM davepalethorpe
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On 5/04/2012 alpinejoy wrote:
>I don't like. If the tail on the figure 8 isn't long enough it could force
>it to role undone, the same reason you don't figure 8 isn't used to join
>two ropes for abseil.
>
>Also, if you are in the habit of threading the tail back trough the eight
>this could be instant fail: (german)
>
>http://alpen.sac-cas.ch/de/archiv/2010/201011/ad_2010_11_09.pdf
>

Different scenario. If this happened when belaying from the rope loop there would have been a lot of dead brits by now!

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