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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 ...

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 ...

DURYEA, Pa. — Patrick Quinn was a senior in high school when he first got into rock rappelling. The 55-year-old hasn’t done it in years, but this year seemed like the perfect time for the ...

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 ...

Specialized teams from the Greeley fire and police departments combined their skills in a rappelling training exercise on Wednesday.Greeley fire’s technical rescue team and the police department’s ...

Three people are dead, and another is injured after falling off of a mountain in a climbing accident involving a suspected failed anchor while they were rappelling, police said. The Okanogan County ...

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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 ...

A thin, braided nylon rope was all that stood between Paul Kuenker and a 30-foot drop as he was gracefully floated to the ground from his perch atop an indoor rock wall at a Tempe climbing gym. The 28 ...

California rock climber Brad Gobright reportedly reached the top of a highly challenging rock face in northern Mexico and was rappelling down with a companion when he fell to his death. Climber Aidan ...