Thank you for posting this! We all need to learn from each other. I'm so glad everyone went home with a great story instead of planning a funeral! It would be great to have a "NO JUDGEMENT" assessment of this so we can all learn. It is easy to make a post-mortem from one simple angle, AND I'm not a certified instructor and a novice at best, but I see that: 1. Everyone tactically related seems correctly geared and harnessed-in. Great job. 2. The rapeller had the presence of mind to brake. Great job! 3. I was taught that command/notifications are to be barked out. I did not hear any. Q: Could vocal command/notifications have eliminated the rappeller from catching the assistant's (man in full-brim hat) foot? 4. It seems as if the assistant was there to keep the rope from slipping laterally on the edge, so they recognized the potential problem, which begs the question: should a better point-of-contact been found? Miniscule hand or foot adjustments by the assistant (if in fact that was what he was doing) were no match from the combined Newton force of a full-grown man exerted on the tiny contact patch of that rope against grainy edge. So, certainly his elimination from the edge would have eliminated his fall. 4. #2 assumes a belayer: if there was one, could he have warned them of the dangers? Again - I'm glad everyone was okay (although I bet that fall still hurt); and thanks for letting us learn from this event. I leave it to experts and the more experienced to add on more discerning comment.

Perfectly working safety equipment. Glad you're all safe.

That kid is never going to climb again, and it is solely the instructor’s fault.

“Yeah, I’m good, that was planned, part of the exercise, so to speak. Nope, nothing hurts. Why’re you asking?” 😂😂😂

Waaaaay too much slack in the instructor tether. Should’ve never allowed for a slip that far down.

Few notes. Instructor badly positioned near anchor Rappeller should have established direction of gravity sooner. Why did the rappel line move so drastically to a different position after the accident? What happened there?

Wrong spot to go over the edge.

Great example of the importance of all the safety one can get. At least we know the safety set up worked

I'm no expert but I see so much wrong in every way possible, safety gear works well

Thank God everyone is safe…it’s always best to have yourself tied in to the anchor for safety especially if you’re helping someone to go down…

Oh My God😢😢😢

"Ow my ass"

rope safed his life

Those cliffs used to be white. Lol

Kind of misleading title. This is more a failure in the set up. I was expecting someone to plummet all the way down through bad form or device management based on the phrasing of the title- glad that wasn't the case! More like a small swing hehe

'oh oh oh oh. oh oh whoaaaa' how heroic. at least launch a spider web and save them jerk

"Nothing worth keeping"... Oh oh wo woooo

Alignment issue caused the shift to the side and the edge attendant should’ve been tight on his rope while approaching the edge. avoidable but his safety still worked.

That was a pro move putting your foot under the rope

Honestly don't know what the heck they were doing and they clearly had zero clue either. If they were attempting to rappel, they better go back to practicing. What the heck was the blue guy doing? Did none of these guys know how to get off the edge? You don't do it by walking it like this guy. They were very lucky! The blue guy is clearly inexperienced. His body was haunched like he was read for number 2. In this position, his body will succumb to the compressive forces acting on it due to gravity. You must understand that in this phase, you have to get the rope down to the ledge and your body below it so the rope can support your body. At this phase, physics tells ups it cannot support our body. All it can do is pull us into the rock face. By doing so, we increase the normal force acting on our feet from the rock face and thus increase friction which keeps the feet from sliding out. The gray guy should NOT have been there trying to hold on to it. Instead, let blue fully take the slack out by loading it. He she be near the edge, legs spread and almost straight so he can resist the compressive forces as he slowly leans back releasing a little bit of rope at a time which will rotate his upper about his feet. Because the anchor is at his feet, he'll have to keep going till he's leaning back about a 30 degrees of so. At this point, he can start to move his feey down a little bit at a time. Then release more rope, move feet down bit, and repeat till the rope is above him and is support him against the pull of gravity. At this point, the rope is doing all the work and friction is not important. His feet now act as a stabilizer only. What these folks were doing, I have zero clue. All I kmow is they were very very lucky. Glad you all came out safe.

Nice, the security worked

Respect the edge

At least 1 of them was them was wearing a helmet 🪖!!!

Strong gear loop

Almost happenned to me but no one feol i just hit something cus i was doing it in the school and it was like a 3 story or 2 story building and i hit it i got pretty nervous but didnt scream any second

Clown show! 😅

I seen something like this but it was 180 ft and not tied in

I think something like golf might be better for you

Bro needs a new hip.

Wow. So wild to see every single day how incompetent people are.

😂😂😂😂😂

That came very very close to having a bad ending. Guessing that guys weight and the distance he fell, I’m surprised (but happy) that he didn’t break the rope or belay loop. Way to many things wrong ….

The Joe Biden School of Rappelling

1st thing comes to my mind- WHERE ARE YOUR ELBOW AND KNEE&SHIN PROTECTORS? 🤦

There is zero reason to do this.

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Wow....such amateurs..you have got to be kidding

bogo 🙄