| According to many rock climbing instructors, | | | | confirmation you will have auditive confirmation as |
| repelling is the most dangerous part of rock | | | | well. First time I did it I felt so silly, but my rock |
| climbing. This is due to several factors. First, | | | | climbing instructor encouraged me by saying: |
| people usually rappel down at the end of a | | | | "better silly than sorry". |
| climbing day if it's a multi-pitch climb, or just after | | | | For a "spider rappelling" the auditive sequence |
| they've finished a hard climb. So it's due to human | | | | goes like this: rope to belay device, belay device |
| fatigue and low risk awareness that incidents | | | | to daisy chain, daisy chain to two hard points. |
| happen. | | | | Rope to klemheist, klemheist to leg loop. Taking |
| Second, rappelling requires proper technique and | | | | into consideration that you are familiar with basic |
| checkup which climbers when they get familiar | | | | rappeling rules and climbing knots and climbing |
| with, tend to skip. I still remember my climbing | | | | gear, I will not go into detail here about setting up |
| instructor telling me that no matter how much | | | | such a rappelling setup. Not all climbers use daisy |
| experience you have, you should never risk your | | | | chain, not everyone wants to have a auto backup |
| life because you are to proud to do a proper | | | | solution in form of a klemheist, so these are all |
| check up. | | | | variations. But I want to stress out the |
| But how can you be sure that proper is proper | | | | importance of saying out loud the sequence as |
| enough, cause it is your life at stake? No matter | | | | you are preparing to rappel down the cliff. |
| which rappelling method and gear you use, there | | | | Sometimes we feel content with what we see, |
| is something that will enhance your learning level, | | | | thinking everything is all right, but it's when we |
| boost your confidence and will serve as double | | | | actually hear our climbing setup that we know we |
| check. It is auditive conformation of everything | | | | have done it properly. And after doing it more |
| your eyes see and check. All you do is actually | | | | than two dozen times, you will be so sure in your |
| saying things out loud in order as you do your | | | | rappelling system that no matter how tired you |
| check up. So instead of having only visual | | | | are you will not be fooled by your own eyes. |