Homsap
You obviously can't be an experienced mountaineer if you think one shouldn't
a. free climbing, often far safer and quicker than being roped together
b. abseiling on a single rope, very common practice while mountaineering
c single point belay not ideal, but often done e.g. bolts in the Alps.
I have done a lot of flying for his company all I can say that the H and S is taken very very seriously.
I am afraid to say we are all getting a bit to risk adverse
