Once in Thailand I had organised to yank the rope three times to signal safe, due to high winds on the
multi pitch we were doing, on the second pitch I was climbing at my physical limit, getting pumped.
I had pulled rope twice to clip, only to have the wind blow the draw horizontal away from me and out of
reach for clipping, getting even more pumped I had to drop the rope and shake out to recover.
then on the final go, I managed to clip the draw at last, only to hear OFF BELAY waft up on the breeze.
Only 30m to go I told myself....... go for the onsight ! |