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 Topic - Clipping directly into an anchor with sling attached to harness
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 by - Chris Sansum  on - 07 Jan 2013 |
A few partners I have climbed with on multi-pitch routes seem to as standard attach themselves directly to the belay anchor with a sling, ie clipping the sling into their harness belay loop with a krab without using the rope in the system. This doesn't seem like best practice to me.
If I rig up an anchor using slings I always attach myself to the slings using the rope, rather than clipping the sling into my harness belay loop. My understanding is that this reduces shock-loading of the system.
Am I being over cautious? I realise that the rope knots (on harness and the one attached to the sling) tightening up reduce some of the force in the event of a fall. Why else would tying into the sling with the rope reduce the force on the anchor compared to clipping into the sling directly? |
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