Rescue from a mid rope to rope transfer. (The Hard way.) Access Techniques Ltd 

I guess it's kind of randomly asking but does anybody know of a good site to stream new tv shows online ?

Hi Simon, The Short cowtails is only stopping the L57 from being loaded, you don't really need the short cowstail at all, as the casualty is anchoring you from swinging back into the structure. Hope that makes sense. Book on a course and I'll explain further. ; )

If you were staying on separate ropes to the casualty and had pulled yourself in and clipped over the casualty's ropes (like a good old Scottish loop rescue)), then you'd be putting a backup over the casualty's ropes like you mention. In this demo, the casualty's rope are in effect anchored at the top and bottom and the rescuer's anchored to those ropes with 2 points and descending them; no different really to descending a set of diagonal tensioned lines. Like Aide says, the krab he used is just to keep the weight off the L57. Cheers.

I had Sean as my first level 3 assessor. He's super fair and a great guy. Man, that was a while ago now....

Side loading a karabiner when used as a point of attachment and when there is anything more than negligible consequences of failure - unacceptable Side loading of karabiner in that specific situation - at worst undesirable .. it could basically be a key ring mate and it wouldn’t matter.

Not have to do a 3:1 😉

You'd let out the i'D and pendulum him the other way by running out the rope, as he says in the video . This technique is basically IRATA aid climbing with a casualty - i.e. very tiring.