How much weight can my rock climbing rope handle?

How much weight can my rock climbing rope handle?

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Ropes are rated well beyond any amount of stress you could probably put on it. Most climbing gear is rated above 20 kilanewtons. Kilanewtons is measure of force which is roughly equivalent to about 2,000 pounds so if you think about the force of the fall and how much you weigh it's unlikely that you would even exceed a kilanewtons probably at any given time in your climbing career. So ropes are going to be rated 20 or more times the amount of weight or stress that you could possibly put on it.