I have always been intrigued by riggers belts, and have seen numerous people wear them. I always put them in the "looks neat but not really a necessity" category for me. However I was recently reading a survival story where one of the difficulties the person had when being rescued was getting the rescue harness on that had been dropped to him. I immediately thought that the riggers belt may have been useful in that type of situation.
So for those of you in the know about climbing and rigging gear, are these belts useful as a means of last resort, and if so, are any of the various ones out there (Brigade alone has three different ones) better than the others?
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