Patent ID: 7025172

Claim:
A method for a person to descend from a height consisting of the following steps: a. fixing a strand to an anchor point at the height; b. attaching a harness to the person who is to descend from the height; c. wrapping said strand one of either once and twice around a side of a locking carabiner having a locking gate, said side being opposite said locking gate, wherein the number of wraps determines an amount of friction; then d. clipping said carabiner on to said harness by way of a D-ring at the end of the harness; then e. locking said carabiner; then f. descending from height while holding on to said strand with one or both hands below said carabiner, an amount of pull on said strand below said carabiner defining a tension and determining the rate of descent, the rate of descent depending on the tension applied to the strand.