Rappel used in a sentence

Rappel in a sentence as a noun

Think about doing a rappel on a long free hang. For me, I keep my legs in front of me and more or less above my waist.

> "This time, the rope was gone," Whitson told CNN. If you know there is a rappel: Bring. Your.

Sometimes you have to sling a tree or rock in order to rappel. Sometimes gear gets stuck and you have to move on.

I was a mine buff for a long time and used to go out to desolate places and rappel down into old mines to explore them. Now days a lot of these old mines have been sealed off.

You could cut through floors and use ropes to rappel up or down. Some walkways were blocked by storage boxes you could push, including push into a hole in the floor which jammed and filled the hole.

So the safer way to harvest coconut is to climb to the top, tie a rope, saw the fruit branch and rappel. I can't say for Thai's method, though you can't just use a long stick and cut the fruits.

As a third hand for your rappel, a toothed ascender seems like a bad idea. Petzl makes another device called the Shunt which is more suitable to third hand use.

To tie two ropes together for a double-rope rappel. It's the knot equivalent of a wrist-handshake.

Only then are you able to tie anchors to the generator, bring the ropes up on top of the nacelle and rappel off the 250' to the ground.

Rappel in a sentence as a verb

It won't ruin your day like rm -rf will, but it will give you enough rope to rappel your way down into ontological horror. I have been using it to write extended tutorials on my local system.

The autoblock runs looser and is easier to loosen up once it has been tensioned, which is why it's generally preferred over the Prusik as a rappel backup.

However, as a counterpoint, it's rare that people take big dynamic falls on rappel anchors, as you don't usually climb above them nor have the kind of slack when finished with a climb that would cause this. Even so - I still prefer the idea of a simple, crazy strong, anchor.

The BD ATC is perhaps the most popular belay/rappel device around, even if everyone who read this article went out and bought one it probably wouldn't affect their overall sales much.

CloudFormation means jumping into the pit of lock-in and you can only climb back out by digging your fingers into the dirt wall, Terraform means you have climbing gear to rappel down and if you have to, get back up without as much hardship. Sure you have to put the gear on but your descent is controlled and then you can climb back up at your own leisure.

Jet-powered elevators become the norm, with a villainous group of Elevatormakers lobbying for jayleapers to not rappel down elevator shafts.

It would have been a lot better to sling those cables through the portholes on both sides and to make it loop the bridge, one person would have to rappel down to get that started but you'd have zero load on the walls. The longer I think about this the more I think those guys and girls were extremely lucky and I hope that this will not inspire any copycats to try this with other bridges or even the same one.

When rappelling with an ATC you lock the rope off, and control your speed, by pulling the free end of the rope downward. Feeding your slack out of a backpack you're wearing would force your hand upward as the slack came out and the rope started to bind on that tiny hydration hose hole. If you're lucky the whole system would lock up; if you're not lucky you'd lose control of the rappel and fall. For future reference the way to rappel with a rope is to stack it into the pack, open the pack up nice and wide so the rope will feed freely, then clip the pack to your harness with a sling so it hangs below you.

Quote Examples using Rappel

As a rappel backup, the shunt can fail if you place it above your belay device. The risk is that a panicked operator will hold the device open. In the correct mode of operation, you place the shunt below your belay device. If you're disabled, the shunt will lock off. If you panic and hold it open, the force you apply to the device will arrest your rappel.

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