Word: rappelling
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...patient who is also a world-famous sculptor of gargoyles. I would very much like to stop summarizing the plot now. Instead, here is a quote from their inevitable love affair: "A cheese strand dangled from her mouth to the edge of her left nipple, and I wanted to rappel it like a mozzarella commando to storm her lovely breasts." Nurse, is it time for my shot...
Pascal Leclerc Briant has an eccentric flair as well as an ability to make beautiful champagnes. If you inquire ahead (see leclercbriant.com) for a smallish fee you can rappel down into his caves or learn to saber a champagne bottle. Holding the thick sword on the bottle's neck, I didn't think I could do it. But I shouted like a little kid when I sliced off the bottle's top in one swift swoop. There's something about the region that helps everyone's bubbles rise to the surface...
Millions of Americans sleep in rooms on the second to the seventh floor. But home fire-safety ladders sometimes aren't long enough to provide an easy escape in case of emergency. Enter the LifeCender: a new, portable escape harness that allows a person to rappel down the side of a building. It comes in a briefcase-like box and goes on like a life jacket. Once the unit is anchored and secured, a person can control his or her descent to safety with a knob that monitors how quickly the cord unspools. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...were rappelling from the top of a cliff,” Chen said. “He went down first but before he even got to the bottom, he got to a small ledge. He wasn’t done with the rappel, but he started taking off his rope, so it seemed like his mind wasn’t completely there. He thought that he was safe. It just seemed really...
...some point, the 6-ft. 2-in. climber fashioned a tourniquet to stanch the blood. After the amputation, he told rescuers, he used his remaining arm to rappel 50 to 75 ft. to the canyon floor. He had to hike another seven miles to find help. Bandaged and bleeding profusely, Ralston was walking with two other hikers who had encountered him when Sergeant Mitch Vetere of the Emery County Sheriff's Department spotted the group from a helicopter. Once aboard, Ralston asked for water but was remarkably stoic. "He was drained but coherent," says Vetere. "He seemed pretty calm...