enigma wrote:
socalclimber wrote:
This is a bit of a recap.
I spoke with the Park Service. David was using an ATC style device.
He did indeed lower his partner to the next set of rap anchors. The partner connected himself to the station and yelled off rappel. The next thing he knew, David was flying by him.
So this is what we know:
1) They only had one belay device between them
2) David obviously was not clipped into the anchor
3) It seems likely that David found the middle of the rope, tied the eight, and clipped it to his harness so he didn't loose the rope while he set up the rap
I can only hazard a guess that he just slipped.
That's about all I can tell you.
So if David didn't have an atc device since his partner just rappeled to the ground.
Why didn't his partner know that?
I mean how was David planning on getting down.
Was his partner going to lower him , or send him the atc device, or did he have a grigri?
Please see the above bolded text.