Marcus Sakey

The notion of a writer sitting in a library doing research isn't what I want. The research I love doing isn't found in a book. It's what it feels like to rappel down the side of a building; to train with a SWAT team; to hold a human brain in your hands; or to dive for pirate treasure. Those are things I've done to research my stories.

American Author

Philippe Petit

I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.

French Celebrity

Adam Ondra

I didn't want to hike to the top of El Capitan and rappel down the route, and start fixing lines. For me it was really important to try to climb it from the ground up at first.

Czechoslovakian Athlete

Amy Jackson

I love a mix of kickboxing, gym, yoga, Pilates, horse riding, and dancing. I also do skinny rappelling, which is a quick cardio workout with music and lighting, so it's fun.

British Model

Nolan Gould

I like to go hiking. I like to go rappelling, swimming, biking. I go boogie-boarding. I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards.

American Actor

Ann Bancroft

My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.

American Explorer

Rappel is often used in the context of climbing or outdoor adventure.

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Mention rappelling equipment to emphasize safety aspects in context.

Safety Gear

Use 'rappel' to specifically describe descending with a rope, not just any descent.

Action Precision

Associate 'rappel' with a learning or milestone experience in climbing.

Rappelling Experience

In the context of outdoor sports, 'rappel' often relates to specific jargon like 'belay' or 'anchor'.

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In commerce, 'rappel' refers to a company's callback of products, a formal and serious process.

Business Context

It is used to alert consumers about potential safety issues for purchased goods.

Consumer Awareness

 starts rappelling tonight top of me he knocks like all this ice on I get hit in the neck and I'm just like oh my god this is definitely not like rock climbing and I'm slipping around I'm doing it so I take the pictures and at the end of the day I had to transmit all my pictures to Brad and I'd never worked for a newspaper in my life right and at

My Life As an Adventure...

 so that we could tie off ropes and rappel down into the hole. This is me looking into the entrance crevasse. At the end of this hole, we found a huge tunnel going right up the mountain underneath thousands of tons of glacier ice. We followed this cave back for about a half mile until it came to an end, and then with the help of our survey tools

Eddy Cartaya: My glacier...

 But this photo shows my preferred method of rehearsing the moves. I'm on the summit, about to rappel down the face with over a thousand feet of rope to spend the day practicing. Once I found sequences that felt secure and repeatable, I had to memorize them. I had to make sure that they were so deeply ingrained within me

How I climbed a...

 boulders it's a little bit of green grass overlooking an awesome glacier so great day all-in-all I don't know where we are placement wise we did see the Mountaineers I believe we're in front of them I think we saved a lot of time with that rappel but you know I don't know

Video Diary Ep 4:...

 crest trekking through the snow to bushwhacking to rappelling to the scree two more bushwhacking man it was a long hard descent but with our teamwork and with positive motivation PMA we accomplish any mission that just led us

Ep 1: Military - Video...

 attracted me to it. Just being the person that is reliable in intense situations and the person that is there to help others when they're having the worst day of their life. I like your technique. Beautiful rappel.

Three People Rappel Down...

 that SEAL Team six will rappel into the homes of al-shabaab leaders and take them out but many of these other factors that were in play are now even stronger than before half the work is already

Why global jihad is...

 at an exciting day left-left top of the world and being chased by the Mountaineers for a while we ended up rappelling down it was about

Video Diary Ep 6:...

 down to the bottom well I'm in this several hundred foot deep chasm after trying rappel for me this is what I

Mysterious Islands in...

 Ultimately we want to get down into the gorge. Let's rappel off the bridge? Yeah that's a great idea.

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