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Leading rappeller falls unconscious. What to do? 15-Aug-2014 At 12:18:48 PM Wendy

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On 15/08/2014 Dave_S wrote:
>On 14/08/2014 Wendy wrote:
>>
>>Really, in what circumstances do you expect your climber to conveniently
>>end up unconscious rapping down a nice little 2 pitch route?
>
>Rockfall?

I'm going to make an ass of u and me and suggest that if you thought the conditions were safe enough to not be wearing a helmet, you probably are also not using a back up and therefore will be splattered on the ground not hanging unconscious on the rope. My point is that this is a very rare event that is never likely to occur, but if it did, would probably happen in varying far more difficult circumstances than a friendly 2 pitch route, as people earlier have suggested. Far more likely to occur is a conscious but stuck abseiler - hair or clothing in belay device, rope caught or tangled, abseilled into middle of nowhere. And even then, those things should be largely avoidable or self rescuable.