at the end of the rope

“Without you, man, I don’t think I was going to make it, man. I was bleeding out right there, didn’t have anyone to help me and you know I had about a dozen cars go by and see me and make eye contact and they didn’t stop, they just kept going. I was at the end of the rope,” he said.

“We tried to start these conversations two years ago and it’s just been delay, delay, delay. So now here we are at the end of the rope,” Hamlin said.

“We are at the end of the rope, distance wise, but we are trying to organize,” Erdinc said.

He rode them in skijoring events while seasoning his sons for a role at the end of the rope.

About 20 feet down he slammed hard into the ice and then fell another 10 feet where he dangled from his harness at the end of the rope.