How do you not fall? I know you stick things into cracks (thats what she said) but there must not always be a place to put it. How do you know the thing is going to hold if you were to fall? How do you get down? Can you just rock climb anywhere, or are there specific places?
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So there are two main types of climbing: top rope and sport or trad.
For a top rope you have an anchor at the top of a climb and you dangle a rope down from the anchor. One side goes to the climber. One goes to the belayer.
As the climber climbs, the belayer will take in rope so that if they fall they won’t fall far.
For the other type there is no anchor at the top.
The climber climbs from the bottom and clips the rope using a device called a quick draw into metal rings bolted into the rock.
As they climb they bolt the rope higher on the climb. They belayer is on the other end of the rope keeping you safe. If you are over a point where the role is clipped into the rock and you fall you will fall twice as far as you are above your last clip.
If you are five feet above your clip and you fall…you go down ten feet.
This is just the basics. There are other more complex ways to climb.
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