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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Officials are urging caution after a man died July 6 while rappelling at a Pisgah National Forest waterfall. At about 1:15 p.m. July 6, Burke County Emergency Communications received a report about a ...

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 ...

U.S. Marines with 12th Littoral Combat Team, 12th Marine Littoral Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, rehearse rappelling techniques at the Jungle Warfare Training Center on Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, ...