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Topic	Date	User
Belaying from the rope loop	11-Apr-2012 At 9:15:06 AM	anthonycuskelly
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On 11/04/2012 Wendy wrote: [snip]...that this bloody rope loop thing is pointless weird British nonsense. [/snip] According to an old geezer I've climbed with (ok, my girlfriend's dad), it came from the early days of harnesses (yes, he started that long ago) and some pretty sketchy anchors: completely removing yourself from the belay was regarded as unsafe (you could rip the whole anchor), but belay loops were a tad weaker than the rope (or non-existent). So, not originally pointless, but perhaps unnecessary now.

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