Abseiling News

Rapped In Taking Terror To The Extreme

Saturday January 15, 2000
Macka Mackail spends his day sitting on the edge of cliffs or tall buildings convincing ``s--- scared" people to jump off head-first. Rap Jumping is the latest extreme sport to hit Sydney, and is described by Mackail who started the craze 10 years ago in Cairns as ``forward abseiling"

Drop In, It's Fun

Saturday January 8, 2000
DAN Wheatley flings himself down the rope like he was born doing it. For the rest of us, abseiling 55m down a rocky cliff onto a 3m-wide ledge in the middle of the Kanimbla Valley is a little more terrifying. But at the same time it is exhilarating and wildly exciting. If that's not enough to

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