UIAA SAFECOM ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS.
ROPE TESTING
The UIAA – International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation – regularly receives questions related to safety topics. The UIAA Safety Commission, with support of other UIAA Commissions and experts, recently commenced a series of articles answering common questions with the objective of making them available to the wider climbing community. This month’s question is: Why and what are the ideas behind testing half ropes with 55kg weight? Most climbers are not in that weight class especially with all...