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Scenario Thread 13-Sep-2007 At 12:29:11 PM JoeGray

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Alright, I'll post up the scenario thread. Here's one that's stolen/modified from rc.com:

Team of two climbing, on a single rope, on pitch 3 (or 4) of a 6 pitch near vertical, near their limit, route. Leader finishes the rope stretching pitch, sets up belay. The seconder dismantles the previous belay and begins to climb. After 2m the second gets knocked unconscious by a falling rock (should have been wearing a helmet!) and is dead hanging on the end of the rope. You only have about 3m of slack rope at the belay.

You can assume this is not a busy area etc, and the approach is via the bottom of the face. There are no coincidental ledges (maybe the belay of pitch 1?) and obviously you're going to have to do something about your hanging partner before going for help. Also (if you need to) you can assume that you somehow just woke up in this position and advice like "well, I would have done x, y, z, first" isn't going to help!

I have a rough idea of how I'd tackle this but I'm sure people out there will be able to come up with a much more efficient way.