The Importance Of The Climbing Harness
My biggest fall was about a twenty-five footer, which ended with my head hanging only five feet or so above a set of jagged rocks. So why didn’t I hit the ground? I didn’t bash my head on the rocks because my belayer caught me and because all of my gear worked the way it was supposed to, including one of the most important pieces of gear, my climbing harness.A rock climber’s truth is his climbing harness—it will make him or break him. What a climbing harness does is allow a rope to be safely and comfortably attached to a climber, stopping the climber’s fall before he or she hits the ground.
