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 ...

“The presumed cause of the accident is an anchor failure," officials said. Three people are dead, and another is injured after falling off of a mountain in a climbing accident involving a suspected ...

What goes up must come down. You may be aware that down climbing is much more difficult and time consuming than climbing upwards, as well as sounding a little contradictory. This is because it's much ...

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 ...

Men fell into ocean from at least 75 feet in the air Authorities are investigating weather conditions Agents were part of elite counterterrorism unit WASHINGTON — Two members of the FBI's elite ...

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United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore will host a rappelling fundraiser called Over the Edge for ALICE on Friday, May 2, 2025, in Salisbury, Maryland. Participants, known as "Edgers," will rappel down ...

The man fell while trying to fix rigging that had come loose. The body of a Purdue University student has been recovered after he died in a rappelling accident in an Alabama cave, according to ...

Faith Malton takes her foot from the top tier of her stepladder and swings it over the balcony’s edge. She can see the ground beneath her, 21 stories down. But she’s not scared. She takes a deep ...

The Philadelphia Outward Bound School held a nail-biting fundraiser in Center City, which entailed rappelling a skyscraper from 350 feet above Market Street. Brave and adventurous fundraisers gathered ...