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Scenario: Two SAR members, Slippery Sam and Shuffling Sue, have been given an assignment to search some dangerous slopes on the flanks of Mt. Baldy in January. The area is treacherous. The snow is very hard packed and slippery. They make the decision to travel while roped up. They each tie into the dynamic rope using a Kiwi coil. They dress in the appropriate attire including ice axe and crampons. Off they go. However Sam, true to his name, slips. He bashes a few “targets” on his giant slide down the mountain resulting in being knocked out. Quickly the rope tension is transferred to Sue, she catches Sam’s fall as she hits the snow, digs in and waits for the inevitable huge tug on the rope. Her style is impeccable. She plants the ice axe pick into the hard snow and holds the fall. Sue is now pinned to the snow, holding Sam who is dangling, unconscious, over a precipitous cliff. Her weight is being used while lifting up on the ice axe shaft to lever her pick deeply into the snow. Now what does she do?


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