Talk:Top rope climbing

A top rope is not a first free ascent.
I have seen an IP try (again and again) on this article to assert that a top-rope of a climb is a first free ascent (FFA), and/or that it is a "subject of hot debate" in climbing. For the many men and women who have been killed/badly injured trying to complete an FFA while lead climbing a route, this will no doubt come as a shock. All they had to do was sling a top rope down the route and complete it risk-free. In fact the IP removes any assertion that top roping can be a form of aid climbing. Clearly, thousands have risked their lives (of which many lost their lives) under the false assumption that top roping was not free climbing. Oh dear, they could have done it top-roping. Aszx5000 (talk) 18:25, 12 June 2023 (UTC)