To get
through a difficult place with heavy rucksack even using a rope is much
more difficult than without it.
So, to hang up the ropes is not the end of the story. The probability to touch a badly lying stone
and shoot by it some of your friends, waiting at the bottom
of the wall for their turn to go becomes much higher.
For this reason potentially most dangerous
stones have to be removed before whole team starts to use the way.
Igor Sand