: Is it reasonable to have weary character climb rope to safety? My MC, injured (having been shot earlier) is extremely tired after carrying his partner, who took a bullet for him, towards safety.

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You are better off with the ladder; it is easy to climb a ladder using only one good leg, if your arms are functional. The other leg can be completely broken. Just use your hands and arms to hold up ALL your weight while you move the good leg to the next step, dragging the injured leg without any pressure, until you are inside.

You best pull the ladder up after you, any person-hunter that doesn't investigate a ladder leading to a treehouse as a potential hiding place has a brain injury.

If you want to get rid of the ladder and use just a rope, Don't use the Gym class method, use the Navy Seal Brake and Squat BUD/s [Basic Underwater Demolition / Seals] method shown on this site. There is a 3:52 video at the bottom of the blog post; the BUD/s Brake and Squat starts at 2:00, and the soldier there climbs about 30 feet.
How To Climb A Rope Like A Navy Seal.

The thing to note here is that all the body weight is supported on one good leg and the two arms; the bad leg probably can't be broken here, it is used but no serious pressure is put on it. Since your injured man can cross terrain, I presume his leg is not actually shattered.

For those that cannot see the video; the BUD/s method is illustrated below; it comes from that site and is from ITS Tactical. In this picture all the weight is on the arms and climber's right leg. The rope travels under the right boot then over the left boot, which acts as a brake so the climber doesn't slip down the rope. The "squat" part of this is to support the body completely with the arms, pull the legs up into a squat, then step on the rope and bring the hands higher on it.

For a thinner rope, it is possible to do something similar wrapping it around the good leg a few times. It is much more awkward but doable. If the left leg is really bad, imagine taking that loop over the left boot, and bringing it up into the left hand. Then you can hang on to the rope with your right hand, pick your right foot up about a foot or two, tighten the rope underneath it with your left hand and stand, scooting your hands on the ropes. It is also awkward, but it can work.

Like the ladder, pull the rope up behind you.

In general, if the blind is not very well camouflaged, their adversaries are just not going to be fooled. I think you are making them too stupid; they aren't deer, and they probably don't know exactly how bad their prey is injured, or whether the guy can climb to save his life. The adversaries are going to put some bullets into that blind if they see it, not just turn their back on it and say "Oh well, they vanished."

If possible, I'd use the blind as a blind, and if the adversaries approach, shoot to kill. Or use it as a lure: Station your men in cover on the ground, so when the adversaries find the blind, and shoot it up, and climb to investigate it, they are ambushed by sniper fire from the ground in a crossfire. You get more weapons and ammo.

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