David Locklear posted:
><http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=507227&in_page_id=1770>
That article is a bit confusing. First it says:
>I was abseiling and it was all really cool, spectacular caves, everything was
>going smoothly and I looked down and I just saw threads not rope - the sheath
>had totally gone from the rope.
And then immediately afterward it says:
>"I looked up and there was three metres of sheathless rope."
So did the rope fray above or below the rappeler? Or did he zoom past
the fray before stopping? Since it said later in the article that their
equipment was more suited to rock climbing, I suspect they were using dynamic
rope which was poorly rigged over a rub point.
Mark Minton
