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Examples of rappel
rappel
If you're feeling particularly adventurous, rappel your way down Table Mountain.
From the suntimes.com
The four in green shirts were planning to rappel from the bridge with the banner.
From the post-gazette.com
It's 20 full rope lengths and typically takes 24 hours to get up and rappel down.
From the boston.com
He grabbed medium-sized gloves and a helmet and proclaimed he was ready to rappel.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Because of concerns about snow stability, however, we elected to rappel the route.
From the denverpost.com
We chose to rappel the climb until we were able to walk off to the right on ledges.
From the denverpost.com
Some of the rappel anchors consist of fixed pitons and other rock protection.
From the denverpost.com
The city will have to hire a team to rappel down and send debris up by rope.
From the thenewstribune.com
But once I got to the top and had to let go of the wall to rappel back down?
From the timesunion.com
- (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body
- Lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing"
- Abseiling (German: abseilen, "to rope down"), rappelling in American English, is the controlled descent down a rope; climbers use this technique when a cliff or slope is too steep and/or dangerous to descend without protection. ...
- Descending by means of a rope, abseiling; to call back a hawk; to abseil
- (Rappelling) Technique of landing specifically trained firefighters from hovering helicopters; involves sliding down ropes with the aid of friction-producing devices.
- (Rappelling) This is a form of descending from a climb and considered very dangerous.
- (rappelling) (n): Down-roping from a perfectly serviceable lowering anchor, with long-lasting stainless-steel rings, after an absurd, dangerous volley of yelling and miscommunication between climber and belayer.
- To descend a fixed rope by means of mechanical braking devices.
- To descend a cliff or other height by lowering oneself on a fixed rope, with feet against the wall. Friction is placed on the rope, usually with a belay device, to keep the descent slow and controlled. See free rappel.
