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The rappel and climbing is a sport-inspired rescue technique. For those who enjoy climbing, rappelling can be found in an act of risk and adventure. In this note, there are some tips on everything you need to know before climbing from beginner level to advance. Plus: safety tips and equipment.

What it is
Also known as “escalation”, the rappel is done on vertical surfaces and is down a steep wall with the help of ropes. This discipline is often seen in full bloom during rescues in some areas become inaccessible by other means. The sensation is to walk through walls, with vertigo and adrenaline that this entails: no doubt an unforgettable experience.

Necessary equipment
The basic equipment consists of:
* A main rope
* Auxiliary ropes
* A harness with carabiners
* A descender

Tapes will be useful also express and special shoes for the occasion. Obviously the surface is required where there will be, which can be a wall of mountains, rocks, ice and even artificial. The latter are walls created specifically for this activity and can be found as “climbing wall” in specialist gyms.

The first time

If you have the opportunity to visit a climbing wall before your first experience in rappelling, do not miss. The climbing wall is a place prepared to simulate the mountain walls, steel structures covered with fiber shotcrete or concrete structures that simulate natural stone. There you can practice with confidence and at various levels of difficulty. At the time of starting the activity, you must be prepared mentally and physically, as used throughout the structure you are the true point of balance.

You should always enlist the help of someone familiar with the activity to accompany us, and to do abseiling for the first time in isolation can be highly risky.

Since we will use strings, you need to know certain types of knots that can be of great utility. Think that the rappel, our life is hanging by a rope and at a crucial moment, everything can depend on the knot just as accurate.

Difficulty levels

The rappel-like mountaineering, has some difficulty scales vary depending on the system used. In Spain and many other parts of Europe, uses the French system, graduating from one and continues until the number 9 (for now, since it is open). From Grade 4, also is a clarification anaerobic, through the symbols + and -.

Finally, from the 6th grade, may also include the letters “a”, “b” or “c”. This gives us a total of 31 possible combinations, used in all types of climbing, whether classic or sports. On the other hand, you can also use the American system.

Tips for your safety

1. Rest: When trying to descend a mountain we have climbed recently, it is likely that we are tired. The best in these cases is to take the necessary rest, because the rappel, haste and fatigue are a bad combination that can cause serious accidents.
2. Balance: You always carry during descent legs apart as it will improve your balance. The hand that you put forward is that any force should not do because it is part of the balance, and instead place it behind the hand control will be in charge of stopping our bodies when to push.
3. Slowly, slowly release the descender try because if you do so you can experience a very sharp fall. Anyway, if this happens, the rope will not let you fall.
4. Facilities: Although it may sound repetitive, never forget putting on gloves and helmet, in this kind of sports are essential.

The capital of Germany is today one of the most important and emblematic cities across Europe. Founded and built in the thirteenth century, the ancient capital of several empires, like that of Prussia, has now become a city with a liberal lifestyle and a very particular style of art.

Berlin is a city haunted by the past, with an immeasurable historical significance. The former palace of Stadtschloss, former residence of the emperors of Prussia in 1701 became, later, the heart of the city, back in 1871. The Reichstag, with its bloody connotations, it rises in the center of town, near the ruins of the Berlin Wall. There are still remnants of the wall, which has remained at less than 1km in length from its demolition in 1989.

Wall apart, Berlin is a young city. The graffiti and urban life fills every corner of the city, a city with its own culture. Modernity is seen in the new Potsdamer Platz, where business and leisure meets. The Bundeskanzleramt, the new offices of Chancellor, is known as “the machine” by Berliners, because of its white cube-shaped with round windows.

Museumsinsel is recommended to visit the Museum Island, which houses art treasures from the time of Nefertiti to Beyus. Without doubt, Berlin is the heart of Germany, a city with an urban and unique art, but with all the German seriousness.

Santorini is a Greek archipelago is characterized by its white buildings with roofs painted and decorated in shades of blue. The island is one of the major summer destinations of Europe, a popular destination for its beaches.

Santorini is located in the Aegean Sea, hundreds of miles from the main islands of Greece. Santorini was formed in the explosion of a volcano. In the center of the islands has formed a lagoon surrounded by numerous beaches of sand, stones or rocks. After the lava formed at the different parts of the island, Santorini is now several beaches formed by rocks or sand of different colors. Therefore, tourists can visit beaches as varied as Red Beach, Playa Blanca and Playa Negra.

In the center of the island is a large central lagoon, about 12 by 7 miles. For three of its four sides, the huge oval of water is surrounded by cliffs that can reach 300 meters. The harbor waters are so deep that ships cannot anchor, but will have to attach the floating buoy floats.

Cities and towns are known on the island Fira, the capital, and Oia, a traditional village. Oia is located in the Maritime Museum, with a large collection of nautical objects and models of ancient vessels, also noteworthy Emporio, Kamari and Perissa, among others.

Highlights one of the archeological sites of the island, the region of Akrotiri, where most of the remains found date from the Minoan era. Apparently, the city was covered by a layer of lava after the explosion of the volcano, but unlike Pompeii, the city population managed to escape. Today, the ruins have revealed houses full of murals, grandiose buildings and an amazing level of wealth at the time. Most findings are in the museums of Santorini.

Fira is the heart of Santorini and is located 260 meters above sea level. To reach the city, visitors can ride a mule or take the cable car, although some prefer to walk up to watch the beauty of the island. Here you will find many hotels, bars, clubs and restaurants. Orthodox Metropolitan Church Fira, a nineteenth century building spotless and the Catholic Church of San Juan Bautista. Here you also find the Museum of Prehistoric Thera, full of objects of everyday life of people who inhabited the archipelago for centuries. Many of the artifacts come from the city that was covered by lava, Akrotiri. The Conference Center of Petros M Nomikos also hosts a multitude of interesting exhibitions. It also highlights the Archaeological Museum in Fira, which is famous for its large collection of statues.

The small town of Immerovigli is just 2 kilometers from Fira. For here is a kind of huge stone or hill known as Scar, where for over 600 years was an old castle, which now only ruins remain. Also nearby is the village of Firostofani, where there is an ancient Byzantine monastery. The monastery is dedicated to St. Nicholas and other saints, and XVII century.

The landscape of the island is full of cultivated fields, where they grow delicious cherry tomatoes and Katsouini, a kind of local cucumber. The islands also have created their own small wine industry. The wine of the region uses three varieties of grapes, Assyrtiko, Athiri and Aidani. Most vineyards are very old, but they survive thanks to the volcanic soil porosity.

From the magnificent beaches of the island are open views to the Aegean Sea. From Fira Skala can go up, the old port. Visitors will have to go up and down more than 550 steps to reach the goal. In addition, from places like Fira you can see some of the smaller volcanic islands, such as Nea Kameni.

The capital of the Czech Republic has been in recent years one of the most popular tourist destinations and more affordable.

In 1992 the historical core of Prague became part of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of UNESCO. The statement is just one more reason to visit the city, being one of the oldest cities in Europe that is noted only tread its soil. The city has an aura of mystery and melancholy that stops time, full of different architectural styles is logical that it is the cradle of dark legends and home to writers such as Kafka, the stroll through its streets is one of the best exercises inspiring may exist.

Among the buildings we mixtures Renaissance, Baroque, Art Nouveau, Gothic … it all feels like a place almost of enchantment that has been used as the setting for many movies and be there to understand why …

The city was born as a result of the construction of the Prague Castle (now the Presidential headquarters Castle) on the banks of the Vltava river, the foundations of the city dating from the Middle Ages, but was inhabited in the Paleolithic era and was the settlement of a Celtic tribe in the sixth century BC.
It is advisable to visit the city in autumn, and winters are quite hard and very hot summers, as well as best you can enjoy Prague is loitering, which is not nice if the weather is not accompanied by at least a little.

For lovers of literature this is a place of worship, because Prague is where Kafka stayed and where they came his best works. Some of the places where he lived as a tenant in a room are now small museums in particular is one that is in the old street of the alchemists to the king Rodolfo accommodate those who sought the philosopher’s stone, the place is easily recognizable because house is a small gray facade lined the cobblestone street is in the same spot as the astrological clock and the central square where the executions took place. It is one of the most crowded areas so that there will be no trouble finding it.

Among the attractions of the city we have the Charles Bridge, with thirty statues of saints and that is a place of pilgrimage for believers Czechs.

It is also well known Jewish Quarter: Josejov, one of the oldest in Europe and transmitting the last anguish during the war and is interspersed with the boom that has today. They are also well-known ancient Jewish cemeteries and synagogues, one of them the Klausen Synagogue where they are exposed many children’s drawings made during the Holocaust.

One feature of Prague is the beautiful and dramatic mix, effect that filters its people, as they are very reserved, a result that this area was always the center of many wars and conflicts, but no longer a magical travel to perform.