Used in bottoming, incipient cracks, this aid tool (first developed by Y.C. back in 1960) has opened up otherwise unclimbable passages. To ensure its continued usefulness if fixed, this Realized Ultimate Reality Piton has a swaged wire loop. It weighs 14G. In more modern times this has been used to protect top end routes where nothing else will go in but you place this and any other type of aid gear at your peril! It will only hold 3kn so it will either pull out or break on a big fall but it offers some mental protection as it might hold a fall! |
