For Safety’s Sake Don’t Do This: Let Go Of the Belay and Drop The Leader To the Ground
I’m from upstate New York and was climbing at Starbuck Cliff with a new partner. I’d just started leading trad in the spring, but was excited to try one of Starbuck’s crack climbs, which looked to be about 5.8 I started up. By the time I was 60-feet up...