Edelrid Via Ferrata Belay Kit 15m

Used this today to take my 9 year old on his first via ferrata, this was excellent, it gave my son that extra bit of reassurance and also made it more stress free for me!
The auto lock belay is instant, no lag whatsoever, this makes it real easy to just pull the rope through one handed (whilst obviously holding yourself on) safe in the knowledge if they were to fall the device will jam straight away.
Simply pull up the blue loop and they can then pull some slack without any issues.
Whilst there is obviously an added amount of faff, I would say this is the least amount of faff you could ever have belaying another.
After about 10 mins started to get used to moving the 3 carabiners easily (2 lanyard and then this) and we moved quite efficiently, for the via we were on running about 10m of slack and then belaying up that amount seemed the sweet spot.
Overall this worked really well and I’d definitely recommend it if taking either a child or very nervous person out.

Used this today to take my 9 year old on his first via ferrata, this was excellent, it gave my son that extra bit of reassurance and also made it more stress free for me!
The auto lock belay is instant, no lag whatsoever, this makes it real easy to just pull the rope through one handed (whilst obviously holding yourself on) safe in the knowledge if they were to fall the device will jam straight away.
Simply pull up the blue loop and they can then pull some slack without any issues.
Whilst there is obviously an added amount of faff, I would say this is the least amount of faff you could ever have belaying another.
After about 10 mins started to get used to moving the 3 carabiners easily (2 lanyard and then this) and we moved quite efficiently, for the via we were on running about 10m of slack and then belaying up that amount seemed the sweet spot.
Overall this worked really well and I’d definitely recommend it if taking either a child or very nervous person out.