How to stay safe with children on Via Ferrata
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 เม.ย. 2024
- I've seen many parents taking their kids on Via Ferrata even if their body weight is less than 40kg (the minimum required for a Via Ferrata Set shock absorber to properly deploy). Here is no longer about this not needing to happen. It became about the need to raise awareness and remind the danger of doing so and what one should actually do when climbing with children to make sure kids stay safe on Via Ferrata.
This video aims at helping the parents about to break the rule to either reconsider and not do it at all or if they still go with it, to at least take better care of their children.
thank you, I was waiting for this. thank you!
Can we expect to see more mountaineering content this year? I love your gran paradiso video!
Thank You. I was fighting with my self... now we'll focus on makeing weight&strenght of my son before going out.
If possible try to spend time together hiking until he gets better with the mountains and to be selv reliant, with trained reflexes, able to properly understand the rules of safety and you confident he will master the rules and not make human errors that can cost highly. Moreover, if possible, maybe you can together go to the climbing gym. If I would take someone first time on Via Ferrata and he or she is an adult for sure I will push their limits of fear and unknown but with a child, is best to do it slowly and calmly. He needs to learn the basics and eventually to overcome fear and difficulties through strength and good habits you as a parent help him master.
I hope you don't mind me speaking my mind about this.
very interresting and informative...but why are there no via ferrata sets where you can weight over 120kg like up to 140kg...i think it must be possible to build stronger equipement, carabiners etc
I can only speculate on this. On why a Via Ferrata Set can only hold up to 120kg. It is easy to guess why at least 40kg. Probably we can get into the physics of it and figure out more scholarly reasons on the why.
In my view, a) the cost of accommodating more than 120kg is too high. It is hard to have so many heavy people wanting to go up on a Via Ferrata (and probably capable). The cost to produce sets that hold that much will be high because they become bigger bulkier and it will get into trouble the 40kg climbers.
b) I guess that 120kg is already a lot. Imagine a weigh of 140kg falling. I didn't study the webbing but I guess there are limits as well. Even the sitting harness. Will a sitting harness fit a 140kg person? I have 100kg and use an XL. For me to get to 140kg it means that I will get quite big (muscle or no muscle). Most probably I will need a different sitting harness.
I will study this further and will try to provide you a more comprehensive and facts checked answered.