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As only one size of belaying pin was kept on board, its diameter was that of the thickest rope to be belayed.
By performing an entertaining pendulum across the shaft to the crevice, the rope can be belayed just inside.
Immediately a curved, rusty, rivet holed plate came into view from which lines had been belayed.
I realised that the sump rope was belayed some 4m from the end of the sump, and so I'd crossed the sump pool under water.
When the throat halliard is belayed, hoist the peak until deep, full wrinkles appear in the throat of the sail.
Paul Saffo, it turns out, has a past as a technical climber, so he belayed Alexander down the cliff.
Their roles leapfrogged: Ms. Wicks now belayed the guide as she prepared to ascend an exposed arête.
The climbers are belayed by ropes to a crew at the bottom of the cliff.
In recent times I could not bring myself to jump off a platform to a trapeze even though I was in a full body harness and belayed by not one but two belayers.
For these, she stepped into a harness, and her father belayed her from below, with a twenty-metre rope.
Corathers belayed Nidever — ready to stop a fall by cinching the rope in the device attached to his harness.
At the start of your penetration, the line should be belayed outside the wreck in open water, then re-belayed just inside but well in sight of daylight.
Roger belayed the route with the help of Markus Iff and three other climbing partners.
If the boat is left unattended, the furling line should be belayed on a cleat for safety.
This lasts for some 20 metres, and then drops steeply into the Far Eastern Bedding Plane, emerging close to where the telephone cable is belayed for the Near Wallows.
Also at this point, a telephone cable may be found belayed to a rock.
The first pitch requires a 20 metre rope with a pull-back line, and is belayed in an alcove round to the right which is a little awkward to get into.
The ladder can be belayed to number of flakes, and it is possible to swing off halfway down and into a parallel shaft entirely coated with flowstone.
The furling line is best belayed on a cleat.
Some of the protesters have belayed on to the roof of a nearby building to get an easier position to launch the kite which they hope to use to link the two occupied chimneys.
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He seized the fellow and thrust him toward the pins where the halyards were belayed.
Murphy and Hennesey nippered the falls at the pinrail, and belayed when they slacked.
Davies had belayed the painter, and now had to explain the origin of the mizzen.
Then I belayed the fall securely to one of a pair of cleats, and approached him.
The fore and afters were the ropes secured to the side corners, and they, on being hauled taut and belayed, held it out square.
Muttering unintelligibly, he cast it off the pin to which it was belayed.
I belayed the rope to the second cleat and set a half-hitch on the turns.
However, Swans boss Garry Monk belayed concerns at the end of his side's 3-2 defeat.
I had just belayed the halyards when Anthea came to me with the keys.
If your halliards are belayed to cleats, marl them to the cleat.
I ran to windward, belayed the braces, and raised a loud cry.
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