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Show Russell Jacobs 31 March 2010 it's no easy task. And you end up ... you don't know where you're going. And you know you have to go down the full length of your rope probably to find the next anchors. So, you have to think about, well, what do you do to the ends of the rope. You gotta make sure that you don't go flying off the ends of your rope. So, we hooked up a system that would facilitate and was failsafe in doing just what we needed to do. And I went down, and I couldn't see the anchors, and I ran right and I ran left, and finally they were sort of camouflaged. The color of these anchors were actually blended in to the color of the rock. And I couldn't see them for some time. And so, I hooked in. And, you know, you're out in space again. And the wind is just wailing on us, and we had a long way to go to get off this thing, a long way. And, uh, Tim came down, and we've got him and I and the pig, and we're standing on the pig. You know, we don't care, we're just standing on it. You know, using it as a platform. And then I go down. You know, we rearranged the ropes again because we've got to pull the right rope down because they're tied together and if you pull the wrong rope down, it could get snagged, and then all of a sudden you've got a little bit of a problem, where the rope may get stuck in the anchor above. And you've gottajumar up and sometimest you know, obviously if youjumar the wrong one, that's no good. But we had to remember which colored rope to pull down, you know, and we're beat up, we're tired. We've been climbing for three days. We're, you know .. . we just had to pull it together, you know. And ... but we made sure that each and every rappel was done correctly. You know, getting the right rope in place, this and that. And I mean, the wind was just going at leats 40 knots at this point. And as we get closer and closer to the bottom, it's getting worse. And the anchors are sort of getting offset because of the wind. It's pushing us opposite of where the anchors are. 26 |
