"Oh, I'm feeling dizzy.." Gerald could feel that he was slowly feeling the urge to throw up. He attributed it partly due to motion sickness and partly due to the fact that he was tied upside down, but he resisted the feeling. Right now, there were bigger things at stake here. He had no time for throwing up. At least, not right now.
"Just a bit more…" Gerald said to himself as he began slowly stretching out his hand forward. He just needed one more swing!
He went back for another swing, but his eyes were stuck on the rock.
'Now!'
Gerald stretched out his hands as soon as he went for another swing and right when he shortened the distance between his hands and the rock, he used the rope to hook his hands onto the rock!
Whack!
Gerald's hands grabbed onto the rock, and the rope hooked onto it!