“Okay, we’re going to have to do this one at a time,” Jack said. “It’s at least one hundred meters down to the bottom, and all we have left is a fifty-meter line, so one of us is going to have to climb about halfway down while the other one belays him from here.” “Then what does the top guy do?” “He climbs down to the bottom guy, who belays him.” “From below? What happens if the second guy falls?” “Well, he won’t fall all the way down, only forty to fifty meters or so.” “Oh, is that all?” Will answered sarcastically. “Then you better go first,” he suggested.
