How to Rappel Down a Mountain

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Scott, and I'm the owner of Climb On, indoor rock climbing gym in Wilmington, North Carolina. Today we're going to discuss rappelling down a mountain. The first thing you'd want to do, because rappelling is inherently dangerous and can result in serious injury or death, is to get the proper instruction for your local indoor rock climbing gym by a rock climbing professional. Any time we talk about rappelling, the first thing we're going to do is tie a big knot in the end of our rope, about two feet up. This prevents our rappelling device from coming off the end of the rope in the event that our rope doesn't reach the ground. At that point, I'm going to get rid of some rope. Rope! And I'm going to set up in my rappel device. The rappel device that I use is called an ATC. It's simple to use. It has lots of friction, and again, you're going to want to get instruction from your local indoor rock climbing gym from a qualified professional. Once my carabiner is locked, then I'm ready to rappel down the mountain. I'm just going to slowly walk backwards as I feed rope through my brake hand until we get down the mountain. Again, I can't stress enough how important it is to get the proper instruction on rappelling. This has been rappelling down a mountain."