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tamarmole wrote:The subject re entered my thoughts recently when reading "On Rope" (first ed.) On reading p311 I came across the following : "One fact will always remain: the birthplace of rappel / prussic systems was North America". Given Brenot's contribution this caused me to raise an eyebrow.
caver.adam wrote:You may find this link to be interesting on the third page of the pdf (book page 219). It has a reference to the monkeys in "Traité De Spéléologie de Trombe Félix".
http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/NSS_news/1966-v024-010.pdf
caver.adam wrote:You may find this link to be interesting on the third page of the pdf (book page 219). It has a reference to the monkeys in "Traité De Spéléologie de Trombe Félix".
http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/NSS_news/1966-v024-010.pdf
tamarmole wrote:The subject re entered my thoughts recently when reading "On Rope" (first ed.) On reading p311 I came across the following : "One fact will always remain: the birthplace of rappel / prussic systems was North America". Given Brenot's contribution this caused me to raise an eyebrow.
NZcaver wrote:tamarmole wrote:The subject re entered my thoughts recently when reading "On Rope" (first ed.) On reading p311 I came across the following : "One fact will always remain: the birthplace of rappel / prussic systems was North America". Given Brenot's contribution this caused me to raise an eyebrow.
That BS line in On Rope amuses me. Dr Karl Prusik was certainly not American. There is no doubt that some SRT descent/ascent systems were developed and perfected in the US, but this didn't happen in a global vacuum. Bobbin descenders and Frog systems were not US inventions, and neither were carabiners or kernmantel ropes.
tamarmole wrote:But apart from prusiking, mechanical ascenders, frogging, bobbin descenders, carabiners and kernmantel rope what did the Europeans ever do for us!
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