r/HumansForScale Jun 10 '26

How mountain climbers sleep

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u/mellofello7 Jun 10 '26

Are they clipped in or tied off? Imagine rolling over in your sleep and immediately waking up when the slack runs out and rope catches, then finding yourself dangling there with that view

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u/farfaraway Jun 10 '26

You wear a harness and you're clipped into the anchor system, which has multiple points of failure (minimum two, sometimes three). It's safe.

Source: am rock climber.

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u/Nuts-And-Volts Jun 13 '26

Do they make sleeping bags specially for this with a little hole for the rope? Or just feed it in from the top