Editing Climbing harness (section)

== History ==
The invention of the climbing harness has been attributed to [[Jeanne Immink]], a Dutch climber in the late nineteenth century.<ref name=fembio>{{cite web|url=http://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/feature/jeanne-immink/europaeische-juedinnen|title=Jeanne Immink|author=Harry Muré|year=2008|work=FemBio.org|access-date=19 April 2014}}</ref> Some of the first climbing harnesses were devised in the U.K. in the early 1960s by Alan Waterhouse, Paul Seddon and Tony Howard who went on to form the [[Troll (company)|Troll]] climbing equipment manufacturers.<ref>http://ktml.freeservers.com/Misc/Troll.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> A harness designed by British climber [[Don Whillans]] was made by Troll for the 1970 Annapurna South Face Expedition. It went into mass production shortly afterwards and soon became popular worldwide.<ref>{{cite journal |first=David |last=Hillebrandt |date=12 June 2007 |title=Letter: Suspension Trauma in UK Climbers? |journal=Emergency Medicine Journal |volume=24 |issue=4  |url=https://emj.bmj.com/content/24/4/237.responses}}</ref>

The sit or seat harness was invented in the 1960s by Yosemite climbers.  The first innovation was the Swami Belt, which was multiple loops of webbing around the waist.  Then quickly came the Swami Seat, a sit harness tied from webbing revealed to the climbing world thru an article in Summit Magazine in the mid-60s, which included leg loops and an integrated waist loop.  Once the seat/sit harness came to be, suppliers of climbing gear started making them with stitching replacing the knots.