Actually, I thought rappelling was the english term and
abseiling was french. Abseiling is not in my dictionary,
rappelling is. Nor does my spell checker recognize
abseiling. I always figured folks who said abseiling were
just being pretentious.
--Tom
petit miam wrote:
>
> When I went abseiling, we used a cliff to climb down.
> I suppose it's harder without something to walk your
> feet down. And it was done as a complete entity. The
> cliff was at the edge of our camp, so there was no
> climbing involved.
>
> I didn't find it very exciting, adventurous, or scary.
> Some people refused to go, but I guess they were just
> scared of heights (or pathetic). It felt pretty safe
> to me. Mind you, this was pre-Cliffhanger, so I didn't
> think about breaking caribiners.
>
> I have never been rappelling, so don't know what the
> difference is. I nearly went sky-diving once, but the
> lessons were on the wrong night.
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