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 ...

Ten people with the Directorate of Emergency Services (DES) Fire Department completed 40 hours of training in the Ropes Rescue I course for technical rescue. The firefighters completed training on ...

There we were atop a 60-foot high clay bank down below Cahawba in Dallas County on a perfect spring afternoon circa 1984. The hooligans that I grew up with figured it was time to learn to rappel. For ...

Odessa College Safety and Rescue Instructor Dean McCann led students through a rope/rappelling portion of their Industrial Rope Rescue course Tuesday afternoon on the Fire/EMS Technology Training ...

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Odessa College hosted an inaugural promotion day on Friday morning for their upcoming community rappelling days which will offer the community the chance to take an introductory course that will ...

TO FIND OUT THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING THIS SKILL. THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO DOUBLE, TRIPLE CHECK. I THINK IT’S GREAT TO SEE AS THE SUN SHINES DOWN OVER THE BIG FOUR BRIDGE. WE WERE WONDERING WHEN WE SAW ...

There is a point when rappelling off an 11-story building turns fun. That's not at the beginning. Even the pizza that greeted me Tuesday morning on the 11th floor of the Hotel Blackhawk in Davenport ...

Ten people with the Directorate of Emergency Services Fire Department completed 40 hours of training in the Ropes Rescue I course for technical rescue. The firefighters completed training on towers at ...

STUTTGART, Germany - First timers are reminded to breath - inhale and exhale. Then step off. It might appear easy in the field manual, but tough in practice when you consider you're now standing 60 ...