Does the first climber do it bit by bit until those behind have a decent distance to climb? In my head they’re climbing using a rope that’s anchored 20 feet above them. If so, how does it get there?
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If there’s no anchors on the wall, then you need to bring your own “protection” and anchor them to the wall as you climb. You reach up, attach it to the rock, and clip the rope in.
But then you need to climb past that anchor, so there are times where you are above your anchor point. If you’re 5 feet above your highest anchor, you’ll fall 10 feet before the rope catches you. So obviously the further apart your anchors are, the riskier it is.
And of course anchors sometimes fail. So you might fall past two anchors, which would be very dangerous.
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