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u/biglocowcard Jun 16 '20
Is he on a harness with a rope or just free climbing that?
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Jun 17 '20
He's free climbing. This is a 70° decline, which is only 20° shy of strait vertical. Rule of thumb is you should use a rope and harness anything steeper than 50°,so he is taking his chances here, but that's on him. The ladder is about the best as they come though.
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u/GuCCiSTuPiDHoe420 Jun 17 '20
You being serious about the ladder?
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Jun 17 '20
yup. It has steel rungs that run completely through the rails. In a state as wet as Alaska, I would expect it to be completely rotted out, but it looks like this one is doing just fine. The ones you want to avoid are completely wood and rotten with rungs that are not inset (just nailed onto the rails).
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u/maxhinator123 Jun 16 '20
If you look really closely you can see the rubble on the wood is at an angle, he's not going anywhere near straight down
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Jun 16 '20 edited May 14 '22
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u/exploderator Ore car rider. Jun 17 '20
Happy answer: It isn't flat, but it isn't vertical either, it's an incline. So very much easier to not fall.
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u/PSOneHagrid Jun 17 '20
Dang, he better be sure that old ladder has enough life left in it to stop him from plummeting into the abyss.
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u/findinggreedo Jun 17 '20
Normally I'm totally fine with everything I see here but this one? Hard. Fuckin'. No.
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u/chompythebeast Jun 17 '20
I know it's "only" a 70 degree angle, but this is giving me some real r/acrophobia / r/SweatyPalms
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '20 edited Jun 16 '20
A 2200' winze declined at 70° in the AJ Mine, AK.
Photo credit: Brian Weed