There is a very good article about the frog ascending system in the current issue (no. 222) of Descent, the British caving magazine. <http://www.wildplaces.co.uk/index.html> It discusses the inherent efficiencies of using the frog system based on different body types. As many have suspected, people that are barrel chested and/or have relatively low waist to fingertip length are at a disadvantage when using the frog, even if their technique is good. Essentially the same article is available at <http://www.johncharleswoods.net/pages/cavetech.htm> under "Typecasting the vertical caver Part I" as well as in Nylon Highway no .53 (2008) <http://www.caves.org/section/vertical/nh/53/nh53.html>.

Mark Minton

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