Eli5 When you’re rock climbing and having to use safety gear and tie yourself off when climbing, how do you get all your equipment back when you’re done climbing. Do you just get your rope back and have to leave all your anchors there?
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Hi,
When you’re being brought back down by your partner, you stop at every anchor to recuperate the carabiners you had put. Since at the top of the route you will have to put the rope through a special anchor that is always staying there (a heavy metal ring on a thick chain here in France, for instance), you are safe to go down (obviously).
Once down, you will have get back all your carabiners (that you attach on your harness on the way down) and you’ll then be able to just take the rope back with you, by pulling it, thus not leaving anything of yours on the route 🙂
This requires obviously to reach the top of the route.
If you don’t, then the last carabiner you put on the wall will have to stay there, so as to enable you to be brought back down. But you’ll still be able to get back the other ones.
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