and participating in lead climbing are potential risk factors. Results regarding injury prevention measures remain inconclusive. Discussion This field is relatively new and, as such, the data are not ...

Participation in all three disciplines was unusual until recently—athletes either performed lead/boulder or speed.1 What do we know about climbing-related injuries?4–7 There are relatively few studies ...

Let’s start with the obvious. Falling is the most common cause of climbing injuries and it usually happens when you’re on the ...

This reduces the chances of injury to the belayer from being pulled ... It reduces both the rope drag when lead climbing and the load created by weight differences in a rope party.

"The reason we do this is that every year is there are thousands of accidents, and these lead to serious injuries or even ... going on the roof and and then climbing back on the ladder to come ...

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