Lab Test - How Soft is too Soft? How Fuzzy is too Fuzzy?

What happens if your Climbing Rope has a Soft Spot and that spot hits your Carabiner exactly on the peak force on a hard Rock Climbing Fall?
Had pleasure to nerd with Rope experts from @mammut

Also Huge thanks to Hanna for coming over and helping me to film this:

Because that makes a big difference and is the main reason that allows me do this project!
Deep Thanks!
Ben

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[Tchrono]

Once again - this channel combined with HowNOT2 is like my bible of how far I can push my gear. Great video!

[MarcoVerna]

Man this content is next level. I don't even image how much time and preparation it goes through to make these videos. The editing, the analytical parts, the comedy bits... They aren't just informative, they are super fucking entertaining to watch. You are one of the main reasons why I started to climb at 30yo (and I always been crazy afraid of heights). Thank you and props to you man! You are just killing it!

[besiix]

The Mammut staff are amazing, friendly people. I love how open and informative they are. Great video dude, and thank you!

[hannathone]

Amazing that you are such a lovely nerdy one with the ability to explain physics that even I can understand <3 it was so much fun to film this with you :)

[carsonmcmahon]

Really great video. Love the engineers and technicians all giving their informed takes on the likely results (and I like knowing that they are pretty good at it). I feel like it's the first time I have ever had a real understanding how bad a soft spot is related to core shot and desheathed rope is in terms of safety.

[samuelbuchmann]

Really good research and answers to questions that probably every climber faces! Personally, I wasn't a big fan of all the switching between the different interviews/experiments. I realize it's probably to create some kind of cliffhanger effects to hold the attention. But to be honest, I found it a bit confusing at times and would have preferred to just watch the different things in one piece 🤷🏻‍♂

[davidwesterlund]

I thought "sad that it was so short". Now I realized that the 2 minute video was over 20 minutes.

[BramHeerebout]

Thank you! I understand that for sensational purposes it would have been good if there would have been an unexpected potentially dangerous outcome. But my take away is that I am completely right in trusting my life to my rope with all types of rock and all types of fall. As long as it it's not extremely damaged it will still save me. And, that is the second take away, the reason for ropes being so remarkably fantastic is that they are created by really smart (and nice) people!

[lisa-koschat]

Had huge quality issues with Mammuts rucksacks and clothing - glad to see they really take care of the development of their gear. I liked your video a lot it was very fresh, funny and easy to watch!

[Yaimdan]

What a great video!! Actually game me some real big confidence in Mammut! I didn't know they were that rooted into climbing history! Also crazy to see the abrasion difference with a dry vs non dry treated rope.

[thatwolfyouknow]

Incredible. This is so thorough and how cool for Mammut to offer so much time and equipment to test their ropes so publicly! Will the next video deal with ropes over sharper rock edges? Watching my rope go over an edge makes me more nervous than anything else. Thank you, everyone, so much for the informative video!

[kcwliew]

Great video - EVERY climber should watch this, fun, practical experimentation... I would have retired that rope but interestingly it would still have done it's job!

[nathanmarshall]

Cat MVP helping the community with scientific answers! But really, great work. Such high quality and incredibly valuable information, keep up the amazing work!

[lachlanswain]

This stuff is educational, informative, and funny. BBC worthy.

[inkwhir]

This is the best climbing related channel on YouTube!

[TheManCave]

Props to mammut R&D for learning new stuff thanks to hard is easy

[vickvick]

This is the info that every climber is lloking for. Thank you for this contentent!

[_Crumpet]

To answer if a rope can die, once must decide if a rope can live, for to die is to no longer be living. RIP, dearest rope.

[milkymat]

sick! I know this wasnt an advert and most climping ropes are rigourously tested, but im happy ive got a mammut rope in my bag haha

[bautistasilvestre]

Thanks you so much for coming back, you videos are the best! One of the most incredible YouTuber ever!