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your belayer, the person holding the
rope, to let you down.”
“Are you crazy?” I said. “I
wouldn’t trust him to fetch water
right now.”
“Well, then,” he said, “you will
have to hang there until you are too
tired and have to let go.”
I finally decided I couldn’t hold
on anymore, so I asked Gordy if he
was ready. He said he was, so I let
go.
Gordy was so confident in his
ability to hold me that his harness
was loosely buckled with some straps
not connected at all. When I let go,
my weight coming down jerked him
