Add to this clothing and long hair tangled in the abseil device; trips, flips and swings; the end of a rope being reached unexpectedly; plus the odd jammed rope, sharp edge and falling rock or piece ...

And, despite it sometimes being presented as a glamorous activity, abseiling has caused more fatalities than any other mountaineering activity. Abseiling involves descending rope(s) using a friction ...

A crew of 10 from Scottish Fire and Rescue’s rope rescue unit carried out jaw-dropping exercises which saw three trainees abseil off the top floor of Centre West car park carrying a horizontal ...

Every year, industrial specialists rig up a rope system that allows brave spring ... Wild Access Alex Picken said workers ...