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Rappelling on a 70m half rope

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Ryan Hanney 10 Jan 2017
I am wondering if it is possible to rappel on a 7.8 half rope for ski mountaineering?
 jkarran 10 Jan 2017
In reply to Ryan Hanney:

Yes with appropriate consideration/mitigation of the risks, mainly: thin, icy ropes being very slick, 35m not being very far and thin ropes being less robust over edges than fat ones.
jk
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 oldie 10 Jan 2017
In reply to Ryan Hanney:

As a half rope is designed to hold a falling lead climber then its easily adequate for the the comparatively small load of an abseil if using a belay device appropriate to its thickness, especially when used double (taking precautions for iced rope, sharp edges as jkarran points out).
Ryan Hanney 10 Jan 2017
In reply to jkarran:

Thank you very much!
Ryan Hanney 10 Jan 2017
In reply to oldie:

Thank you very much!
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 pec 10 Jan 2017
In reply to Ryan Hanney:

You may want to put an extra turn or two on your French prussic if you're using a thinner rope than normal.
 jimtitt 10 Jan 2017
In reply to Ryan Hanney:

Bit of a peculiar question really since climbers abseil on them all the time, I do.
 Morgan Woods 10 Jan 2017
In reply to Ryan Hanney:

You could abseil on one...."rappelling", not sure.
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 David Coley 12 Jan 2017
In reply to Ryan Hanney:

If you are abseiling on just one strand you might like add some friction:

http://people.bath.ac.uk/dac33/high/10GettingBackDown.htm#addingfriction
 Stu Tyrrell 12 Jan 2017
In reply to Ryan Hanney:

As we only take two 50mm ropes sport climbing, we always ab on joined ropes, so that is the same as one rope doubled, we are careful with the rope over an edge and try to keep clear on any sharp rock, done this for years, but it only takes once I suppose. At least we hope not to go off the end..........

stu

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