Vertical caving terminology and methods
Rope access is the professional use of SRT and related techniques, for industrial purposes. Arboriculture, the managing of trees, uses rope access, but typically uses its own approaches. I do not pretend to be an expert in rope access or arboriculture, as I am not trained in either. However, some of their terms may be confused with similar terms used in vertical caving, or their approaches have been tried and largely abandoned with vertical caving. As a result, they are worth including here, to aid understanding. This section is intentionally not comprehensive, as it only covers the terms that might be helpful for a caver to know. Rope access and arboriculture have their own extensive vocabularies that are different in different regions, and often used in formal regulations. For the most part, they are not in the scope of this document.
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