Talk:Top rope climbing/Archive 1

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I thought that technically top roping has the belayer at the top of the crag, and the method described in the article is correctly called bottom roping.

Ive never heard that. Also the picture at the right is "roped soloing" not top-roping

POV
This text: While possibly true, is a POV and would need to be sourced or even attributed. Summarizing the feelings of an entire global community without a poll is simply guessing. -Will Beback 08:40, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
 * While it is frowned upon by some in the climbing community who consider it an unpure form of ascent, some consider it one of the purer forms of climbing that is free from burden of having to place protections.

Corrupt?
is this page corrupt? with IE7, attempting to view it seems to download a binary file 192.91.173.36 (talk) 18:58, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

No problems with Safari or Firefox. 71.237.23.168 (talk) 03:26, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

References and Info that could be added
This is for a wiki edu assignment, "Critique an article" Possible improvements to this article - Clarefc (talk) 00:50, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
 * There are plenty of books written on rock climbing - indoor and outdoor. This page could use these as references. As an example, How to Rock Climb! by John A. Long could be used as a source of information. Currently the only references appears to come from a discussion style web page which is not a credible source for information. Additionally, a lot of the information on this page isn't cited at all.
 * Some information that could be added would be some more equipment used and how it functions, such as a belay device. Perhaps equipment used could be its own section. Specific sections about safety and anchors would be valuable as well.