Climbing Tools: Ropes Part 1 - Fall factors

How do you talk about ropes without understanding what they do and how they work. I would love to jump right in and say yeh a single rope does this a double does that and a twin means you can switch girlfiends without them knowing. Suffer through this and part 2 will make more sense.


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