What happens if you rappel to the end of your lines?!

Hey everyone, So I got some emails asking what would happen if you rappelled to the end of your line, and it didn't touch the ground and you are hanging in "space". Well in most cases your rope will be long enough especially in well established areas or you can see your ends touch the ground. But in the off chance that you are rappelling in pitch black darkness and rappel some where sketchy then I hope this answers your questions.

Obviously the best thing you can do is properly equip yourself with the correct gear so you wouldn't have to resort to these drastic measures. Be sure to study up on what and how that gear would be used before you end up like I did. And try not to rappel all the way into the knot because that just makes things worse lol would you like to see how I could escape with no shoe laces or prussics? let me know down below.

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[BetaClimbers]

Desperate times call for desperate measures. It’s can be hard to keep a cool calm and collected mind when you find your self in a panicky situation. The worst thing you can do is panic and make a mistake so if you ever find yourself in a “situation” try to stay calm and work out what the safest method would be to get out of it. You aren’t dead and you will just hang there so don’t make the situation worse and die. Tie back up knots if you can so you don’t rappel lower, tie knots in the rope if you have too to stand on. Just never fully un clip and think you can climb out of it. And better yet never get yourself in this situation in the first place.

[crowsinprism]

Was on a multipitch in Laos a few years ago, took a little longer than anticipated. We had to rappel down in the dark, this led to missing a set of anchors to begin the next rappel. All of a sudden I hit my knots. I remember my climbing partner double checking that I tied them. Always tie knots!!!!

[JesseUnderscoreMartin]

3:14 That face when I'm hanging on the end of my rope and realize that wearing velcro closure shoes was a fatal mistake...

[tommasopado]

Great video as always.
Bonus luxury situation: if you happened to rappel with an ATC-guide in this situation you can leave the extension biner where it is and clip the "guide ring" of your ATC directly to your belay loop with another carabiner. This way you are in guide mode, and you have assisted/auto breaking.
Moreover if you have one more spare carabiner, you can clip it next to your pedal prusik up above and redirect the ropes there -> 2 to 1 pulley for free ;)

[petercook]

If only you had a paracord bracelet, you could spend half an hour unbraiding before saving yourself.

[davidmcgowan]

After your initial shoelace jumar, use the Tail of the rope to tie a blakes hitch above the ATC and an alpine butterfly big enough for your foot to loop into.

[sev]

found the channel a couple days ago. been watching a bunch and bam you upload while im watching. what a treat.

[AskTheKid]

You've got to show how you did it with no shoe laces and no hollow block

[noahpraver]

I’ll never look at shoe laces the same way again lol

[alistairclark]

This is really good for dummies who don't carry 2 belay devices, multiple slings and an accender. If you are one of these dummies quit climbing right now. Always take both up and down gear with a back up down gear.

[AdvancedLawn]

That’s a neat set up josh. The configuration is like the rope wrench. With the belay device adding a bend in the line for you.

Good info. Can come in handy in tree work too.

[shawnl]

Keep a set of jumars or prussics on the back of your harness when doing a sketchy rappel just in case...

[evanbarnes]

I always keep two prussik loops on my harness. You can wrap them around the part of the leg loop that goes up toward the belay loop, and they just stay on there all the time! They take up basically no space or weight, and I've got two in case of emergencies.

[RaGerge]

You're a funny dude and provide good information as well. I hope your channel keeps growing!

[nsfolly]

If you are lucky you rappelled with an atc guide which can be used to climb the rope by connecting it's hangar eye directly to your belay loop.

[hidetzugu]

Good video. I specially liked the chalk bag suggestion. personally I much prefer this kind of videos to the fail compilation ones, keep it up

[Rollingouttj]

“At least you aren’t dead... your just dumb!”

Dude I died 😂

[glowingrectangles]

Cool Video!

I think its worth mentioning, once you get a little bit above the ends of the rope, its possible to tie off the ATC with the extra rope, to go hands free, and then move the hollow block, or make other adjustments to the climbing setup.
You seemed to manage just fine, but its a good skill to demonstrate, as its hard to do stuff one-handed.
(also as a belayer, to tie off a climber who's taking a long rest the rope)

Maybe you already showed this on another video though.

Great idea about the shoelaces or chalkbag cord !!

I Just found your channel one video ago. When You mentioned that you gave away a Lov2 at the end of the other video, I was like, "What!!?! Awesome!" Ive been meaning to get my hands on a Taz. Really cool and unique piece of kit, I havent seen or tried one in person yet..

[raphaelbeinhauer]

Just another reason why I wouldn't take a tube without guide mode, would make all this much easier. And it's good to rember that a friction hitch will work with a dyneema or nylon sling, if you hapoen to have an alpine draw, or your anchor sling.

[keegswong]

I love your humor man! Another great vid! Keep 'em coming, I love this channel haha