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Check or Deck
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CHECK OR DECK INTRODUCTION The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) has recently issued a poster called Check Or Deck the aim of this is to promotion the safety of climbing. As you can see from the poster the idea is to get the climbers to check all there equipment before they climb. In this piece of work I shall describe briefly all the aids that a leader climbing requires to lead climbs. ROPES The first ropes were of natural fibres (hemp, manilla ). Their low energy-absorbing characteristics meant security was more psychological then real( hence 'the leader must not fall'). After World war 2 nylon ropes became generally available. They were of a hawser laid construction, but they tended to kink and stretch and spin when hung on. It was not till the 1950's that the first modern climbing ropes came about, this were a kernmantle construction in which a braided sheath surrounds more loosely...
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