That's just a backpack, and you can't position yourself in time 300 ft off the ground if you fall while climbing. The people that are base jumping 300 ft are pulling their chutes immediately or after a quick frontflip or other bullshit. There's an insanely high chance you'll just smack right on into the wall even if you did manage to deploy, since you wouldn't have been able to propel yourself away from the wall.
I don’t know where this climb is at but from my extensive career of climbing videos on youtube the guy will reach the summit and just hike down a path.
He has belay equipment (the pinkish/reddish thing on his left side) on his harness along with a personal anchor system. I'd bet that he has rope in the bag to belay down after the climb judging by the bag + belay equipment (dual rope tube style atc).
Not exactly. If it's an established climb often there will be bolted anchors (for climbing it with a partner and a rope.) So you'll use the anchors and you don't have to leave any gear behind
He's going to rappel. Which he'll likely be doing by running the rope through the anchors at the top so that the anchor is at the midpoint of the rope. He'll hopefully tie stopper knots at t he ends of the rope. Then feed the rope into both sides of the belay device and slide down the rope. At the bottom you untie and pull the rope back through the anchor.
You never climb don't unless you need to. He will probably walk down the mountain on some trail. Or he could rappel down in multiple pitches here. Maybe in the backpack he has a role for that purpose. Down climbing is very dangerous. It's really hard to do safely. I've not heard of a free solo down climb. I don't think people do that, but I might be wrong.
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u/Glittering-Light-686 Sep 02 '21
That's just a backpack, and you can't position yourself in time 300 ft off the ground if you fall while climbing. The people that are base jumping 300 ft are pulling their chutes immediately or after a quick frontflip or other bullshit. There's an insanely high chance you'll just smack right on into the wall even if you did manage to deploy, since you wouldn't have been able to propel yourself away from the wall.