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Did you ever ask yourself whether a climbing rope can be torn apart? I did, but all I learned was, that this is unlikely. Climbing ropes loose elasticity but they will not break unless the have a damage seen from the outside.
Then Silvio Baglioni [47] died. August 2nd 2013, Five-Fingers, Dolomits, Italy.
His rope was older. When he fell it was scouring over a rock and broke.
The famous Adam Holzknecht, whom I got to know on the summit of Langkofel,fetched the rope and showed it to my Langkofel guide Gregor Demetz, not less known, and myself.
It looked like my installation.
R.I.P., Silvio.
