Preview to Tossing a Climbing Rope for Rappel (Abseil): Three Ways for Three Conditions
Cleanly throwing your ropes down a pitch for a rappel can mean the difference between a safe and efficient retreat from a face and a potential epic (or worse). If you have increasing winds or terrain below you that is likely to catch a thrown rope, you may need to use different techniques for getting the ropes down. The full video provides three ways we get our rappel ropes to the bottom to deal with increasingly severe challenges to a clean toss.
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