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Show Russell Jacobs 6 January 2010 transitioning my weight on to another etrier, uh, pulled out. And it was, uh ... of course, the rope arrested me. I didn't get hurt. But it was certainly .. .I was awake by that time. MD: You let out a good yell? RJ: Yeah. Of course, you have all this hardware on you, and it's just banging all over the place, you know, as you're falling. But it's attached well enough on yourself that you're not gonna lose anything. So, I just regrouped, worked through it, got to the top of the second pitch. And then Howard came up, and I was hauling the haul bag. He led the second pitch. I led the third pitch. MD: Did he have some funny words for you after you fell and he followed up behind you? RJ: Well, yeah, there's always commentary. MD: Right. RJ: You know, there's always commentary. I don't know exactly what he had said to me at the time, but I think he was amused. He was amused. I mean, he was able to see the whole thing from his vantage point. I mean, he was on Big Sandy, a nice comfortable place to belay, and I'm sixty, seventy feet above him, and, you know, I'm flying through the air. You know, and it was certainly quick, very quick, you know. MD: Well, those situations are serious, but how do you deal with them besides with humor after the fact? RJ: Yes. Youjust ... you do. You know, nothing tragically happened. No one got a broken arm. You can go on. But that's why you have the rope. You know, and that's why you become, um, acquainted with your equipment. You have to. That's paramount. Otherwise, you just. . .it's mind over. . .I mean, it allows you to push the limit, knowing 26 |
