Grigri

Self belaying is not an approved use of a grigri. There are some climbers that go against the recommendation, but they know the techniques and equipment well enough that they wouldn't have had to ask your question years before they do it. Don't kill yourself with a grigri. Petzl makes equipment for

That they lied about their beacon problem and people died. And then they lied some more. Then they waited until they got a class action lawsuit against them before they issued a recall. Then their next line of beacons also failed. Then their next line also failed. Every company has recalls. The diff

No There’s several that lock by default The most popular for decades has been https://www.rei.com/product/151970/petzl-grigri-belay-device But that’s still not a reason for you to develop and patent your own solution, especially a small, light one that gradually slows you down like an auto-belay htt

Looks like a GriGri, is packaged like a GriGri. Sold by Petzl. If it also tastes like a GriGri you should be good to go. Like others said checking the serial number should be the ultimate confirmation, but this looks completely fine.

I mean…. They changed the geometry a bit and the new ones have a wider and slightly different range of ropes they are designed to accept. I seem to recall the old ones being grippier but it might just be that we all had thicker ropes back then. I see zero reason to think the grigri 1 is not perfectl

Petzl has an article on using a grigri for ascending a rope. Obviously you need the correct training to do so safely. If you just mean approved use based on context and not application, then sure. They have other devices designed for “rope access”. https://www.petzl.com/INT/en/Sport/Ascending-a-rope

He's also using the wrong gear for what he's doing. He should be using a locking belay device like a GRIGRI that locks when hands come off it. In a super cool tactical situation if you get shot in your belay hand you don't fall, which is probably nice. In a situation like this if he slips or his han

To be a bit pedantic, the main reason for the accident was because he “petzl death gripped” the grigri closed (which prevents the camming mechanism from working) in addition to letting go with his brake hand to feed her slack from the top side 😭 What’s really messed up is that if he was completely h

the only main difference is that the Neox has a spinning wheel that makes it easier to lead belay Also makes misuse way more dangerous in many cases. Most assisted belay devices have a slight chance of locking up even if you didn't hold the brake rope (in no circumstance you should let go of the bra

I only buy from shops that are at least somewhat specialists in climbing gear. Lately I've been liking HowNot2. They're a relatively newer company but they're climbers and route developers, they tend to have good stuff at good prices, and before they were a shop they were an amateur gear testing lab