Thursday, October 18, 2007

What is the best to do if you fall?

You might find a lot of advices, what to do if you fall when climbing. The traditional include:

1. Concentrate to land on your feet
2. If you are belayed, at the moment of falling, push yourself away from the rock and prepare the feet to stop you, when you come back to the rock.

Nevertheless, the traditional methods do not guarantee you will not be injured.
There is indeed one untraditional technique, mentioned by Douglas Adams, which we apply to our what-if advice:

If you notice, you are falling, try to miss the ground.
If you miss the ground, you will definitely remain all sound.

If you doubt, check out how it feels otherwise, see section "Fall from a height" in this article

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