Auto Belay Accidents: Know Before You Go

    In 1989 Lynn Hill, one of the most accomplished climbers of her time clipped into the chains at the top of a climb in France, leaned back and fell 70ft. through a tree to land between two boulders on the ground.   Amazingly, Lynn came out with only a broken ankle and some scrapes and bruises. The cause of this accident you ask? She simply forgot to finish tying her figure 8 knot. This sort of absent mindedness is the...

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