One of my friends lacked Harnes this method could be used to support, My friend and I have a problem now that this is correct or not?

His belay device is attached to a solid anchor, instead of to his harness. Perfectly fine for toproping. In fact since the climber outweighs him, the belayer would want to anchor himself even if he had a harness. Belaying off an anchor is also common practice when a leader brings up a second, especially if there are two seconds climbing simultaneously.

I wouldn't do this to belay a leader if I could avoid it (and I can, see below). Belaying from the harness gives you more control over feeding and taking slack, and lets you use your body weight to provide a "soft catch".

You can make a harness out of a sling. Pick up a copy of _Freedom of the Hills_; there are good diagrams in there.

Perfect example of a DIRECT BELAY System as long as the Power Point is Solid, Equalized, Redundant with No Extension.

Agree that this rig is an acceptable system for TRing!

Some more details.

I'm not quite sure from the photo, but it looks like

a) the belayer has the loose end of the rope around his neck. That's a BAD idea.

b) there's no belay device, just some kind of hitch. This is not great, but acceptable.


edit: Chief, I would point out that the anchor in this photo is almost surely not Redundant. I'd probably rely on it myself, but it would be better with a seperate loop of sling around the tree, and even better with a back-up sling tied to a different tree.

Best Illustration that I can muster up at the moment. Same principal just reverse it from bringing up the 2nd to belaying the TRing individual. The Munter is a valid Hitch to belay with and easily tied off with a Munter Mule etc.: