Dangling thousands of feet above the mountainous terrain hangs a creature. Dangling by his fingertips Geoff Mackay reaches for a bolt, finds his oldest piece of protection, reaches up and secures it to the cliff. Slowly letting his weight onto the new secure-point he tests it but not slow enough, Mackay's forearm is tired from the climb and the bolt isn't as sure as he thought. A piece of rock breaks loose and gravity pulls quicker than he can react.

Falling, Geoff swings his feet toward the cliff, then the slack is removed from the rope and he swings toward the cliff. Miraculously both feet plant on the side of this rock-wall and Geoff Mackay looks up, probably 40 feet from where he was, and then he looks down at a closely avoided fate. "Time to replace a few bolts with some cams", he mutters, then takes a deep breath and starts climbing again. This wasn't the first fall and he knows it defiantly won't be the last.