Vertical caving terminology and methods > SRT basic terms
Where a knot has more than one rope hanging further down a pitch, one of which is not long enough to reach the bottom. This is extremely dangerous, and the short end should have been bundled up and tied away so that it cannot possibly be accidentally used to try to abseil down the pitch as if it were the proper rope for descending. All ends of rope must have a safety knot, just in case the rope somehow ends up hanging back down the pitch. Abseiling off the short end of a rope is one of the most serious mistakes that can happen with SRT.
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