rappelling

It also once tried to have me drive through an underground cave system that’s inaccessible without rappelling.

Consider the scenario where climbers descend by rappelling from trees, or using an informal climbers' trail.

But that isn't as 'sexy' and suiting up in full battle rattle and rappelling from the roof tossing flashbangs, and kicking in doors.

When rappelling with an ATC you lock the rope off, and control your speed, by pulling the free end of the rope downward.

The military version is auto-brake for rappelling and you can go fully hands free per petzl but you have to use specific rope.

There's a lot more opportunist thieves who'll snatch a laptop than there are industrial espionage spies rappelling down your elevator shaft or whatever.

Climbers tend to die from Rappelling more than anything else.

If one comes rappelling down on me in my basement I tend to just blow on them so they fly away elsewhere.

He died rappelling when his bag got stuck.

And they don't go rappelling off the side?

For example, if you have six climbing parties a day rappelling off a tree at the end of the climb, that tree is going to sustain damage over time.

Skinner's fall occurred when he was rappelling.

This is also why climbers use "dynamic" (elastic) ropes (when climbing, not necessarily for rappelling).

A retired Marine I know said roughly "we recruit them with commercials showing guys rappelling from helicopters or advancing through fire, we train them to take extreme risks, and we're astonished when they go 130 on a motorcycle and get killed".

NYT: Those Deported to El Salvador Were Shackled, Beaten, and Sexually Assaulted[1] And if you're saying to yourself, "what do I have to worry about, I'm not brown", well, do you have kids who you don't want to have abducted and zip-tied naked in the middle of the night by paramilitaries using grenades and rappelling from helicopters into your home[2][3]?

Rappelling this way would not work and you would have a good chance of killing yourself.

Rappelling is (statistically) very dangerous as it is one of the few situations in climbing where you are trusting your life to a single point of failure (redundancy is good!