Petzl - Aven - Climbing harness tested

This is a speleology-specific harness, not a climbing one. The waist seems to be padded nicely but the legs has zero padding - just like other Petzl. I was try the smaller one and was still too large on waist. I reduced the waist until the 2 cushioning pieces were touching each other but not overlapping on my back - and was still too large. It is possible to reduce it more but the overlapping padding might become uncomfortable. My waist is about 64cm, I wear Petzl Corax size 1 cranked down to minimum waist, but that works - sure that is for climbing, not for speleology. Tie-in loops are very small, can be used well with the Petzl D alu carabiner but does not work that well with regular D maillon - the hole is so small that you can hardly push through the screw part of a maillon... On the other side with serious use probably the maillon will not twist - eg. when you rescue people from rope, etc. Otherwise looks good, but not my cup of tea.