Danielle: Thank you very much Tad!!! This is what everyone wanted to see, a butt shot. This isn't quite what I had in mind when I asked you to take my picture. I'm about 25 feet straight up, and the top of the climb is another 20 feet or so from here.

Tad: I'm at the bottom end of the blue rope, out of frame. Danielle is about halfway up this climb. She is on top-rope, which simply means that someone (in this case, me) climbed up on lead, then built an anchor at the top, ran the rope through it, and rappelled back down. Climbing on top-rope is much safer, because the belayer can take in all of the slack. On a top-rope, when the climber slips, the rope takes their weight before they fall much at all. On lead however, it is a different story.