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The other girls complete a challenge to abseil down a cliff.

Participants abseil down from the pyramid roof to street level.

This is a good place to abseil down the face without committing yourself to a hard route out again.

If we abseil down the middle of the face, we'll maybe die.'

Descender - This is used to abseil down the rope.

'It's got to be better than trying to abseil down the outside.

Today, people abseil down the side of the tower to raise money for charities, although it is generally not open to the public.

The group decided to abseil down the vertical face (the great rock barrier) to the base of the mountain.

I had agreed to abseil this landmark rather than take the rather more traditional cable car down.

Occasionally, cavers abseil into this and are unable to retreat, requiring rescue.

Now there would be only a single shout to let Jago know it was time for him to abseil down.

We looked at things like how to abseil off a cliff hundreds of feet high, while protecting the person you are guiding at all times.

'After I have let off the smoke bomb, you abseil down from the roof, in through the window into the computer room.

To abseil any further he would have had to raise himself enough to release the pressure on the knot and let it pass through his gear.

They also attached ropes to the chimneys to allow soldiers to abseil down the building and gain access through the windows if necessary.

The pyramid itself is cleaned by special maintenance personnel who abseil from the light beacon opening at the very top of the roof.

For this challenge the adventurers had to abseil / walk down a cliff face to the beach below.

Vermine now abseil down cliffs, and build small boats to cross lakes.

To deliver a box of chocolates like this, dark strangers drop from chairlifts and abseil down buildings.

In Langt Ned, teams had to abseil down a higher cliff.

Firefighters took the Skylift up and then Abseil down to the site of the plane's wreckage.

We continued into the upper, easier couloir, not realising that most people abseil off to avoid the long haul to the summit.

The racer then had to abseil down to the church floor, with the church choir's singing accompanying them on the way down.

Either Sergeant Benton-Smith or I must abseil down to make a search.

Canyoning provides an equally unconventional route, as you abseil down the face of a waterfall before plunging into the natural pools.

In fact, it made sense for the others to rappel down before she moved on.

A few have even asked to rappel from the wall (the answer was no).

Then, rather than rappelling down on their own, they would often be lowered.

As everyone knows, rappelling is a good game and becoming very popular.

He said the ropes would provide a means to rappel down a wall.

You'll have to land the team on top and rappel down, then breach the door.

Once on the top, they would put harness and rappel down the building.

As he videotapes the man in his home by rappelling down the side of the building.

"We could rappel off the roof and come in through her kitchen window."

We've always wanted to rappel over a waterfall and this was our chance.

Generally, if you're going down a cliff or the face of a building, the best way is to rappel.

The girls soon come to a cliff and realize they must rappel down.

We also have two men on the roof with rappelling gear.

Now, the last few Marines were rappelling toward the strand.

Then she went over it backward, rappelling down as they had on the cable.

He was also the first to use climbing pins to rappel down the south face.

They must then rappel back down to the ground.

It looks like rappelling and feels as if you're actually scaling.

The area is also popular for horseback riding and rappelling.

Then soldiers began bailing out, rappelling down, one after the other.

You'll have to show the other three how to rappel.'

The climbing ropes were only two hundred feet long so rappelling was out.

While rappelling down, he fell 500 feet and died.

You've never climbed before, and you want to rappel down."

Connie wished that she could rappel with her eyes closed.