Rock climbing may look glamorous in the movies or on the cover of magazines, but in reality it can often be a tiring and tedious battle against the weather, time, and one's own ego. Here, a climber is doing an assisted climb of a wall on the Monkeyface (one of the more famous formations at Smith Rock). This requires him to set protection on the rock, secure the rope, then use the rope to ascend. It's not a particularly "pure" (or fast) form of climbing, but sometimes it's the only way...