Great chest ascender

By alpinejames Ranked #89 - Big Wall Climbing May 19, 2008

Basic, lightweight, does its job. What more can I say? I use this ascender caving, and it indeed fits the advertised range (8-13mm) and sticks to muddy, grimy ropes (though not used on icy ropes...yet). Easy to manipulate with gloves, nice that the black plastic opening lever keeps the ascender in an open position when I'm changing over from descending to ascending. One gripe is that using webbing as a chest puller harness tends to rub against thick ropes and makes ascending a little harder. But the croll plus a handled ascender for frog ascending makes fast work of vertical ropes.

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