Where's the belayer for the guy on the left? I thought he might be using a silent partner or something, but the rope goes all the way to the ground it looks like.

I think the belayer is standing at the car taking a picture of his friend rapelling Ending Crack. ;]

You actually can not see the bottom ten feet of the route. What appears to be the ground is the dirt alongside the road, at the feet of the photographer (fully 80 feet back from the wall).