I saw this on the BBC website, it was about a ‘exhausted’ climber who couldn’t make it to the top of Subluminal at swanage. He was uninjured and yet his friends couldn’t hoist him to the top of a 12m sea cliff.
So if you plan on heading to a sea cliff and don’t know how to prussik or carry out a assisted or unassisted hoist, then these are just two of the skills we teach on our Rope Rescue for rock climbers course.
These are very basic skills and could have saved the tax payer several thousand pounds in aviation fuel and flying time.