[at-l] Movie: "Into the Void"

[jbryankramer at msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

Well as a very inactive climber I can think of things that could have been
done:

A prussic knot, or jumar could have been attached to the line below the
fellow on belay, he could have tied that off to the protection or put in
some protection to tie it off to and then cut the line in between him and
the prussic/jumar (or whatever equivalent that is used now) He could have
roped down then to see what was going on and babooned the fellow hanging off
the cliff back up.

However this assumes that they were thinking effectively, sometimes at
altitude and with exhuastion mixed in that might not be true.

Bryan

 Lex et Libertas -- Semper Vigilo, Paratus, et Fidelis!


> In a message dated 6/15/04 11:39:10 Eastern Daylight Time,
> kdpo@pacbell.net
> writes:
>
>
> > Just a philosophical question. Cutting the rope may have been the right
> > thing to do, but do you want to climb with him now that he
> knows it is ok to
> > cut the rope.
> >
> >
>
> Consider this;  if the rope had not been cut the two of them
> would probably
> still be where they were when the rope was cut:  one swinging on
> a rope and the
> other stuck in place holding onto an ever increasing weight of rope and
> rider.  When the rope was cut it enabled the hanger on to land on
> a ledge -- there
> to find courage enough to think about his choices.  Should he go
> to Wal-mart,
> go on a search for hummingbirds (or chickens or Geese), or crawl
> back to base
> camp?  He chose the latter.  Well, perhaps I need to see the film
> (or read the
> book) to understand the situation better.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Skylander
>
>
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