Belaying


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Posted by andyb on February 13, 2005 at 16:47:58 from 213.122.226.10 user beardbiter.

"Pegs driven in!" on sacred Lakeland rock? The suggestion is enough to horrify the any climber.
I think the passage (and others) shows that AR was a sailor not a climber. Moving together whilst roped up is a fairly common procedure but the way the S&As did would have been death on a string on serious ground. In the 30s belaying was a matter of passing the rope around spikes of rock, boulders, wedged stones and the like. Sometimes a convenient rock might be wedged in an equally convenient crack. It was not until much later that people started bringing their own manufactured rocks for this purpose.
Banging pegs into the rock has always been controversial and generally deprectaed, except... except when the perpetrator gets away with it of course and the peg becomes 'traditional'.


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