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保护者在线路顶端把leader往下放,保护方式为“安全带式”(绳子不过anchor),坐姿面朝下,制动端绳子垂向下,你可想像成定滑轮的装置。当leader开始下降时,保护者无法控制速度,leader掉了12,13米,腿和小指骨折,肋骨瘀伤。
文中没说用的什么保护器,估计是atc一类的管状或片状保护器。事故原因主要是保护者操作不当。按他们的架设方式,制动手要向腰后别住才行。或者用意大利半扣。
听说有人保护跟攀时把atc挂在anchor上用,这则事故说明,这种方式跟没有保护区别不大。
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Subject: Accident report 5/26 Southern NH
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Newsgroups: rec.climbing
Date: 1997/06/19
On May 26th, I was climbing with my partner near Lake Massibesic in Southern
NH. After moving the top rope, my partner lowered me down to the bottom of
the cliff using a belay device. She was unable to control my speed and I
hit the deck 40 feet below hard.
I broke my leg, my pinkie finger and bruised a couple of ribs. I consider
myself extremely lucky that I wasn't hurt worse.
The setup: My partner was tied in to the top rope anchors, and was sitting
at the top of the cliff facing down. I was tied into the rope, which went
directly to her belay device which was setup correctly.
Now for the mistake! The brake rope ran from the belay device stright down
the cliff to a pile of slack at the bottom of the cliff.
Once I started moving down the cliff, my partner had to life 40 feet of rope
faster than it was already traveling due to my descent in order to apply the
brake.
My question for all you net climbers: Not piling the rope at the top of the
cliff was clearly a mistake. Is it a big enough mistake that I would
inevitably crater, or was panic on my partner's part likely a contributing
factor?
What I learned from this accident:
1) Do NOT improvise if you don't have to (this was the first time we had tried
this setup).
2) Use backups, even if you don't think you need them (a prussic knot on the
brake rope to my harness would have saved me).
3) Use a helmet, even if you're not leading or worried about rock fall. I
didn't use a helmet since I was "just top roping" - I was incredibly lucky
that I didn't hit my head and make myself stupid.
John Tupper
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