After summiting, it's easy to feel like the challenge is over and all that remains are a few simple raps. Your situational awareness and risk perception change, distracting you from the necessary ...

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – There is a little over a week until the Boy Scouts of America’s Annual 21 Stories for Scouts fundraising event. It’s an opportunity for people to rappel 240 feet down Rochester’s ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (Sept. 25, 2013) -- More than 180 Soldiers took to the skies Thursday, as the rappel exercise of the Warrior Training Center's Air Assault Course was held at Dickman Field. During ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – “Over The Edge at ONE DAYTONA” got a little edgier than planned on Friday, only adding to the adventure for that ol’ thrill seeker Rusty Wallace. Winds in the 20-mph range made ...

Madison County Technical Team team member Todd Zorbrist, right, gestures as he talks about ways to hook up a Stokes basket among the ropes used for rappelling and lowering equipment at Riverview Park ...

Before you head out for rappelling in Maletsunyane Gorge, make sure you have the right gear. A helmet, harness, and sturdy ...

In 2017, another rappelling accident occurred on Goat Wall. Shelby Withington, a 20-year-old Western Washington University student from Seattle, was simul-rappelling with a friend from the seventh ...

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