Climbers rappelling down to the tea cave on Africa Ledge. In the background is Table Bay and Robben Island.
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Idle Layabout
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- Taken on November 19, 2006
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*lovey* 79 months ago | reply
OMG! breathtaking, but maybe frightening?
this is absolutely awesome!
Idle Layabout 79 months ago | reply
I've always been vaguely perplexed at the non-climbing worlds' view on rappelling (abseiling). People tend to think of it as an activity in itself, and some commercial groups offer abseiling as an 'activity'. To climbers it's a technique for getting from A to B where B is (generally) below then A. It's fairly easy to do once you get the hang of it, and therein lies the peril. There are a gazillion things that can go wrong and it's a very unforgiving technique. It is loads of fun though :-)