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Title: The encyclopaedia of sport
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898 Peek, Hedley Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918
Subjects: Horses Sports Games
Publisher: London : Lawrence and Bullen
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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be much friction ; from rocks a man mayeasily fall through the air and attain a maximum 34 THE KNCYCLOl.KDTA OF SPORT (mountaixkering of acceleration in a given distance.Hence on rocks that are ditlicultto a given party of climbers, theonly way to arrive at safety is fornot more than half the party to bemoving at one time, and for thosewho are stationary to draw in therope as the others advance. Whenall are moving at once, the ropeis liable to catch on knobs or incracks of rock and thus to bringup one or another with a sharp jerkwhich may produce disastrous con-sequences. Guides and very goodclimbers are liable to become care-less about the rope, for they judgeothers safety by their own senseof security. If the rope is keptstretched no one can really beginto fall, except when traverses arebeing made, and I am now discuss-ig direct ascents of rocks, nothorizontal or diagonal traversesacross them.All except ab-solutely first-class rock-climbersshould makeattention tothe properuse of the
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rope a cease-less care, bothfor them selves and their guides andcompanions. A party of first-class rock-climbers ofexperience know what theymay venture to do, and area law unto themselves. When a horizontal tra-verse has to be made acrossvery difficult rocks, a dan-gerous situation may ariseunless at both ends of thetraverse there be really firmholding and plenty of it.Even then, the first and lastmen will have to rely uponthemselves for salvationrather than on the rope.A middle man may beeasily held up. Sometimesit is possible to climb toa point above the traverseand there fix a kind ofextra pendulum rope,where-by perfect security may beattained : but the fixing ofsuch ropes takes much time,and is not likely to be .un-dertaken if possibly it canbe avoided. Most climberswould rather take a riskthan so much trouble. Fi.xedropes are often used inplaces of extreme difficulty,especially in the descent, 0.\E AT \ IlME—Descending Rocks. mountaineering) when they can be readily and quickly

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