> Americans love their cams, and will carry the very small ones over a set of nuts.
Which you'll understand when you're on a sustained 50m splitter finger crack. Try to fiddle in nuts from a rather straining position to a splitter with no constrictions vs. Slap in a cam.
In the states you often see climbers carrying mainly cams and only a few nuts, maybe a maximum of 10. Personally I don't carry hexes - never got on with them and they just serve to make me sound like an alpine cow; they just sit there till I get to the top so might as well not bother.
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