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Sports / Fitness / Recreation / adventure course | | French term or phrase: échelle laotienne | Can't seem to find many hits for this in French or English. Context is an adventure course (summer holidays in the mountains):
Parcours aventure : tyroliennes, ponts de singes, poulies, poutres, échelles laotiennes, en tout genre sont là pour vous conduire d’arbre en arbre.
Anyone done this?! |
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| | giant's ladder | Explanation:
Since Laotians are rather sample of stature! I guess.
The Giant's Ladder
Participants begin the high course three feet on the ground and end up thirty feet in the air by climbing a swinging ladder made of timbers and cable. The steps of the ladder are three feet apart at the bottom and get progressively farther apart. A block and tackle ascender is available for those who cannot climb the Giant's Ladder
http://www.raft.com/ropes.htm
Here's another good site that you may find useful:
www.raidsaintcyr.com/epreuves.html
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\"small of stature\" sorry! |
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Allan Jeffs
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Local time: 13:35
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21 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 | échelle laotienne giant's ladder
Explanation:
Since Laotians are rather sample of stature! I guess.
The Giant's Ladder
Participants begin the high course three feet on the ground and end up thirty feet in the air by climbing a swinging ladder made of timbers and cable. The steps of the ladder are three feet apart at the bottom and get progressively farther apart. A block and tackle ascender is available for those who cannot climb the Giant's Ladder
http://www.raft.com/ropes.htm
Here's another good site that you may find useful:
www.raidsaintcyr.com/epreuves.html
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Note added at 28 mins (2004-08-18 16:20:47 GMT)
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\"small of stature\" sorry!
| Allan Jeffs
France
Local time: 13:35
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 60
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33 mins confidence: | échelle laotienne ladders
Explanation:
This is tough! Many searches on "tyrolean traverse" (=tyroliennes) also mention "ladders", tout court. Might work if you can't find anything else. I keep wanting to say "suspended ladders" or "hanging ladders" although of course there's nothing in the original to support this!
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