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This is what happens when you do the Rappel Route with a single 60m rope; certainly not recommended. I wasn't using the American Death Triangle, and I tied knots for my partner as he came down, btw. With rope stretch, you're still ~1-2 meters short.
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Looking back at the approach from the standard single 70m raps.
June 22, 2009. With binoculars it appeared that all the routes are very wet.
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tooTALLtim
Jul 6, 2019
“This is what happens when you do the Rappel Route with a single 60m rope; certainly not recommended. I wasn't using the American Death Triangle, and I tied knots for my partner as he came down, btw. With rope stretch, you're still ~1-2 meters short.”  

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