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The singularly most dangerous thing ... 25-Oct-2005 At 6:27:00 PM DaCrux

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Getting benighted on top of Blockbuster after going up Kaiser/Resignation and Ivan. Having to scramble down in the dark and do a 25m and then a 45m rappel. We did the first one with one rope and the second one on double ropes. On one of them (have a feeling it was the fist one as we had 50m ropes) we didn’t have knots on the end of the rope – which was just as well, as the rope was just long enough, and we would have been stuck dangling half a metre off the ground. It was pitch black and we only had 1 head torch. On the second rappel one of the ropes got stuck on a chicken head and my sister’s bf had to prusik 5-6m up the rope – in the dark (as my sis and I had the torch) to untangle it. This is my recollection of what happened anyway. I was dehydrated as we only had a small amount of water and we all felt bad drinking it. I’d left my jacket at the bottom of Kaiser as it was pretty warm – but I was hypothermic by the time we got to Blockbuster and didn’t really know what was going on – I think I was close to hallucinating as everything was spinning and I could feel things crawling on my skin. A mini epic.