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The scenario My climbing partner and I are at the top of a pitch and we drop a belay plate to the ground. There is no safe descent, we were planning on rappelling down off safe anchors. What do w...
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2020-04-17T21:23:55Z (about 4 years ago)
<h2>The scenario</h2> <p>My climbing partner and I are at the top of a pitch and we drop a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belay_device" rel="noreferrer">belay plate</a> to the ground. There is no safe descent, we were planning on rappelling down off safe anchors.</p> <p>What do we do?</p> <p>Also covers: "How to abseil without a descender device?"</p>