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"In this segment we're going to go over the final aspect of belaying and that is safely lowering your climber back down to the ground. This is how we do that. So, I'm in proper starting position. When my climber finishes their route, I take one last pull on the rope. This is just to double check to make sure that rope is nice and tight. My right hand goes from here down to my thigh, run it across your leg, that's ideal. What we are doing here by bringing our hand low, leaving plenty of distance between our hand and the belay device. This is going to allow us the friction and the leverage to safely lower the climber. Once we've done that, our right hand is nice and tight, the climber will weight the rope. We start to lower them by taking our left hand and pulling this lever open. That releases the locking mechanism from this device. Your right hand is now very important. You slowly loosen your hand on that rope and as you loosen your hand that rope will start to run through your right hand ever so slowly."
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