He turned up one day hungry and riding a gray horse that had a filthy blanket on his back and a rope halter instead of a bridle.

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There was a fun pitch under a huge roof where I had to climb into a corner, then lower myself down the rope and run back and forth on the wall until I could catch the edge of the next crack system.

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It was dark by the time I had the rope free and was back at the Dinner Ledge.

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Each time they came to a clearing where they might rope her, she would scamper back into trees.

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Cage, his face screwed up with rage, one shoulder hitched higher than the other from a back injury, looks like Quasimodo without a bell rope to hang on to.

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Working in a two-man team, on opposite sides of the animal, packers sling a pair of manty-wrapped loads to the sides of a mule's aparejo and lay a 12-15-metre (40-50ft) lash rope gently across his creature's back.

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Before our own lunch is served back on deck, there's a chance to try out the rope swing.

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Hanging from 100 feet of rope in the middle of El Cap, I started running back and forth across the smooth face.

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With him was another man, also in a black peasant's smock and the dark gray trousers that were almost a uniform in that province, wearing rope-soled shoes and with a carbine slung over his back.

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During the journey back to Tobermory, the fishing boat's bridle, to which the tow rope was attached, broke.

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