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General Climbing Discussion

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Leading rappeller falls unconscious. What to do? 14-Aug-2014 At 4:37:49 PM JimmyJimJam
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Ok. Enough fun and games. Let's forget the whole winter foehn on the Eiger, partner's bleeding from the ears and you've dropped your gloves.
Let's just say your partner's halfway down the rap on a two pitch route. What would be the easiest, quickest, and safest method to get both you and your partner down?
After prusiking down, how would you?
1. Get past your partner? Particularly if they have extended their belay device with a sling. And for arguments sake we'll say it's overhanging.
2. Lower yourself and your partner? Clip into their belay, or, rap down and fireman, or...?
3. Having built a new anchor. Lower them onto the new anchor?
And 4. Continue safely to the ground?
I might add that I have done a course with ASM but we never covered this particular scenario. So I was curious to see how others would deal with it.
I might also add another question.
What if up was the only way? Say its a sea cliff or the cars at the top, and you were rapping down just to climb back up.
Can you haul without a rescue rope? My course covered mainly crevasse rescue in which case you'd be carrying coils.

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