Category: Ice Climbing

Category: Ice Climbing

Research on mountain guiding and mountaineering techniques.

Safety Research - Pendulum Fall Calculator - Climbers traversing on the Mount Sefton summit ice cap

Pendulum Fall Calculator

An online tool to calculate forces generated during a pendulum fall with midpoint anchor failure

This calculator estimates peak forces during a steep traverse fall, including the effects of an intermediate anchor and a worst-case failure of that…

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