…down a hole without a prussik.
I had a call two nights ago, it was from the Chairman of LLMRT, and for once I hadn’t done anything to piss him off! He was asking if I was goingn to make it to a rescue in the quarries, mainly because I have a very good understanding of the complex terrain. As he pulled up outside my house I was trying to explain that I was so much drunk, but plastered.
When he saw me he realised that the ‘No fit state to be on a rescue’, wasn’t an excuse. Anyway it appears that two people keen to new route, had abseiled into Film Set Quarry and forgot prussics to get out the rope they abseil in on. Resulting in a being trapped in the bottom of the hole. Interesting as I do believe that Lord of them Rings, HoseyB has dug the tunnel through, so you can actually walk out of that hole if you know what you are doing.
Fortunately I don’t have the guys names, but I just hope the team threw two prussics and a headtorch into the hole and wished them good night! I wonder if they new there is an lovely E2 on bolts you can climb out on as well?
It is called film set quaary, because it was used in the 80’s film The Keep, which was a early flop for the now cult director Micheal Mann. I few years back I took two of the films biggest fans down into the hole to explore the remains of the set.
