rack-ropes

Updated: May 12, 2025

Two Frenchmen had attempted to make their way to the cave a week before; but the old 30-foot ladder of the previous year broke under the foremost of them, and he fell into the pit, whence he was drawn up by means of a cord composed of rack-ropes from the châlet, tied together.

G. F. (George Forrest) Browne - Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland