NOT Rock Climbing

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In this episode Rich compares canyoneering to rock climbing, highlighting the differences in risks, challenges and skill requirements. Canyoneering involves additional risks such as hypothermia, hyperthermia, and flash floods, making it a sport that needs to be taken seriously. The challenges and skill sets required in canyoneering are different from rock climbing, with a greater emphasis on going down and less emphasis on individual physical abilities. There are also equipment differences, such as the use of static ropes and releasable rigging in canyoneering. The episode also discusses the debate around bolts as anchors in canyoneering and the constant innovation in the sport.

[@gonchagoncha6205]

I enjoyed your podcast a lot. The main difference between rockclimbing and canyoneering as you said is the harness and the ropes. Will the canyoneering harness, the static rope and the participants are able to take a small 2 Mts fall to scape out of a small pothole without using human pyramids? in rock climbing the vast majority of the accidents happen while rappeling. while in canyoneering most of the accidents happen due to falls or slippage I guess. In rockclimbing we do the traverse in a different manner, different techniques are employed in different situations thus different sport to learn.

[@CanyonsCrags]

Thank you for your comment. The majority of accidents in canyoneering are from jumping. Foot and let injuries are the most common.