No rappelling today, and in any case, the rock was occupied at the moment by three teenage boys passing around what appeared to be a beer can in a crumpled paper bag.
This is the second year that Rasheen has attended the program, which features obstacle courses, night-vision training and rappelling from a 50-foot tower.
Come game time, the crowd had filled out nicely, helped by a last-minute surge in ticket sales through online marketplaces like StubHub, and the Nets took the floor with Jay-Z watching and BrooklyKnight rappelling from the ceiling.
It was a counterterrorism training exercise that the two agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's elite hostage rescue unit had completed dozens of times before: rappelling from a helicopter onto the deck of a ship at sea.
Instead, they went with a stock photo of Navy SEALs rappelling from a helicopter — an aspect of the mission (all of which took place in total darkness) that had to be scrapped at the last minute.
In a video provided by the French military, the forces are seen rappelling from a helicopter at night with night vision goggles, before the aircraft lands in a field to pick up a man, who appears to be Okamura.
But the mission quickly went sideways — a soldier slipped off a rope while rappelling from a helicopter, a rescue convoy got lost in the maze of Mogadishu's streets and Somali militiamen plucked off two Black Hawks with rocket-propelled grenades.
The arduous process began soon after the quake, with engineers rappelling from the top of the structure to investigate the damage, stone by stone.
The drills are rigorous — before rappelling from that high cliff, I had to climb up to it, using my hands and feet to find tiny crevices in the stone that would serve as stairs.
A series of hearings and protests over the last few months have attracted thousands of people -- some donning makeshift respirators, others wearing "Beyond Coal" T-shirts, and some even rappelling from a bridge over the Columbia River as a symbolic blockade to the shipments.
