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As a climber that word has a very different meaning to me. A reminder that its better to live to climb another route than test the limits of what's possible.
by codr7 1y ago
As a climber that word has a very different meaning to me.
A reminder that its better to live to climb another route than test the limits of what's possible.
https://www.needlesports.com/Catalogue/Climbing/Big-Wall-Aid-Climbing/Screamers https://www.needlesports.com/Catalogue/Climbing/Big-Wall-Aid...
- bubblyworld 1y agoLol, don't tell people how to take their drugs. There are interesting things to be found at the edge.
- codr7 1y agoLive and let live, it's just not for me anymore.
- tempodox 1y agoI would have thought a screamer is a climber on the fastest possible descent.
- hinkley 1y agoLooks like it's a device for preventing the fastest possible descent by eating itself during a fall. First example I could find involved a little yelling.
- codr7 1y agoYeah, by the time you're hitting that equipment, you are most likely already screaming :)
- codr7 1y agoThat's sort of where the equipment got its name I think.
- hagbard_c 1y agoSo that is what the thing is called, I use these when climbing trees and working on high buildings on the farm. I made a longbow with a strong enough pull to shoot a heavy arrow (a piece of an old broom handle with PET-bottle wings on the back) attached to a nylon line used to pull the safety line over/through whatever I happen to need to fix. Thus far I have not had the misfortune to test the efficacy of the 'screamer' but I'll be sure to scream if I ever have to.