First night climb - mixed results!

[moss]

Glad you made a successful recovery and learned a new technique or two. During a practice climb, I got jammed up with my foot ascender up around my nuts while shifting from an ascending to a descending system, making it extremely difficult to climb out. Luckily my wife was in the vicinity and was somehow able to get me a kitchen knife, in place of a handsaw, to cut the strap off the foot ascender. Being semi inverted and stuck in an awkward position is really stressful and dangerous. As much as I was practicing low and slow, I ended up getting stuck higher than I should have been in this instance.

What kind of foot ascender was it?

 

[John@TreeXP]

What kind of foot ascender was it?

Pantin with the catch add on.

 

[moss]

Pantin with the catch add on.

Tough situation! The old-school and the current Pantin have a quick release feature on the buckle, they added a pull tab on the current version to make it more obvious. Not intuitive though, especially when you're stuck in the pretzl position and don't know ahead of time that the solution is to release the buckle to get out.
-AJ

 

[Reach]

Tough situation! The old-school and the current Pantin have a quick release feature on the buckle, they added a pull tab on the current version to make it more obvious. Not intuitive though, especially when you're stuck in the pretzl position and don't know ahead of time that the solution is to release the buckle to get out.
-AJ

Good to see I’m not the only one who has been stuck like that! No fun, to be sure.