sling, rope, carabiner
Yesterday S and I went to a different climbing wall, Alter Rock, which as the name suggests is in a disused church and has more top-roped high climbs and less bouldering than the usual place.
The purpose of the visit was to give me some practise with handling the rope proficiently. After all S puts his life in my hands each time he climbs with me and I need to know what I'm doing, so we took turns with climbing/abseiling down and with controlling the rope.
At one point his feet slipped - which may have been on purpose - and he fell off the wall, but the system worked and I held him steady, and I was quite relieved that his falling weight didn't lift me off the floor!
S has sent me home with a selection of equipment so that I can practise belay arm/hand movements at home while he's away climbing for a couple of weeks, so I'd better do myself proud and show some improvement on his return. My God this man is a flippin' challenge.
p.s. The year-ago blip featured ropes of a different kind.
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