Is Rock Climbing Dangerous and What is The Safety System

Is Rocky Climbing Dangerous and What is The Safety System? in this quick info on rock climbing, we will cover the dangers and the safety system. You will learn what it really is and you will also learn who to call if you want to do Rock Climbing in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharja, Ajman or RAK.

What About The Danger?

Normally the first reaction of a “layperson” when you tell them that you enjoy rock climbing is shock and amazement that you could possibly enjoy such a dangerous sport. Indeed, some types of climbing can be exceedingly lethal for even the most experienced and hardened of climbers. Alpine and Expedition climbers (more on what these terms mean in a minute) tend to hang around in the most extreme environments on earth with a razor-thin safety margin of time and equipment, and accordingly, every year several to several dozen never return home from the mountains. However, talk to the typical indoor gym climber, and the most serious injury they have probably witnessed may be a twisted or sprained ankle.

What it comes down to, in the end, is that climbing is as safe or dangerous as you make it. Indeed, one of the most emphasized skills that beginning climbers are taught (or should be) is risk assessment. Just as in every day life, where we assess the risk of fairly mundane activities like driving to work or climbing a ladder, we must asses the danger of every move we make in the mountains, and decide if the risk is acceptable or another course of action needs to be taken. What exactly constitutes an acceptable risk is a personal choice of each climber, and is a subject worth pondering before you ever set foot in the mountains.

The Climber’s Safety System

As climbers, we inherently struggle against the force of gravity. It opposes our every move upward, and
sometimes even the most prudent or wary climber will lose that struggle and fall. Luckily for us, the sport of climbing today enjoys the luxury of equipment which is light, durable, monumentally strong, and probably the most thoroughly tested of any sporting goods on earth. In most types of climbing (with the exception of bouldering, explained below), various pieces of this equipment are combined to form what is know n as the safety system.

Most people generally picture one type of equipment associated with climbing, and that is, of course, the rope. However, as you’ll see below, the rope is only one part of the climber’s safety system. The rope is nothing without the rest of the system. Many an excellent climber has died on the end of a perfectly good rope which could not save them because it was not part of a satisfactory overall system. Always be sure that your entire system is in place and functioning properly, and it will save your life faithfully. Neglect even one part of the overall system, and you may find yourself in a deadly situation.

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