Hansjörg Auer’s Terrifying Rappel
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When you're climbing solo, you realize that you got off the route but there is no option anymore to climb up or down?! By the way you have no gear except a thin rope, one ice screw, your harness, a belay device and you need your crampons and ice axes to finish the climb. Challenging!#neverstopexploring #oetztal #team_edelrid #lasportiva
Posted by Hansjörg Auer on Thursday, March 1, 2018
What do you when you’re soloing ice, you get off route, and you can no longer climb up or down? Bail, obviously. But what if you were only carrying a thin rope, one ice screw, your harness, and a belay device, and you needed your crampons and ice axes to finish the climb. Then the obvious answer is to cry and beg the gods for mercy. Hansjörg Auer found himself in just that situation while attempting to solo a winter route. Instead, he extricated himself with one of the most terrifying rappels we’ve seen, draping his thin cord over a tiny sliver of frozen rock. Watch the heinous rap, which he also filmed, above.