Rope climbing is a sport in which competitors, usually men, attempt to climb up a suspended vertical rope using only their hands. Rope climbing is practised regularly at the World Police and Fire Games, and is enjoying a resurgence in France, where competitions are held in shopping centres. Also, enthusiasts in the Czech Republic resurrected the sport in 1993, and hold local and national competitions.
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Famous quotes containing the words rope and/or climbing:
“Mankind is a rope tied between beast and superman—a rope over an abyss.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest-trees.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)