a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point
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Examples of rappeller
rappeller
As a first-time rappeller, my heart raced, in a good way, as I latched onto the wiry rope.
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Each rappeller was required to raise or donate $2,000.
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Down below, I could see tourgoers, who had taken the stairs, craning their necks up at me, the rappeller.
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If the client gets into trouble, the guide unlocks the other strand and lowers the client or the rappeller.
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As a rappeller, she broke her hand, her ankle and developed a herniated disk from the 100-pound packs she used to carry.
From the thenewstribune.com
The second rappeller is also girth hitched into the belay device on the carabiner and also anchored into the main rappeller's harness as a back-up.
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Useful, when it is an inexperienced rappeller or when the rappeller gets into trouble, by getting a piece of clothing or hair entangled in the descender.
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- Abseiler: a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point
