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Continuous climbing (or roped walking).—Following is the procedure for dangerous, but not difficult climbing, in which an unchecked slip would be disastrous, but where a slip can easily be checked with a rope without use of a standing belay. The procedure also serves for easy going between difficult pitches, to save time of unroping, and is always used, with variations discussed later, on snow-covered glaciers. Party ties in to rope. A, the leader, carries one loosecoil of rope to be paid out if the rope is jerked suddenly.He climbs slowly enough to minimize the effort of B, theweakest man, who carries the rest of the rope. He selects aroute behind trees or smooth rock points, so that these canserve as belay points in case of fall. On short, tough pitcheshe may gather in rope from B after he is up. |
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