Story by Spc. Avery Cunningham | 172nd Public Affairs Detachment | 02.18.2016
Soldiers from the basic and advanced courses at the Army Mountain Warfare School climbed Smugglers' Notch as the culminating event of two weeks of training in Jeffersonville, Vermont, Feb. 18, 2016. The course event, referred to as the "Mountain Walk," winds it way through steep terrain and ice up the mountain and then back down, with a rappel at the end....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Mark Burrell | 354th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 02.21.2012
Canadian troops lined the 40-foot rappelling tower. The tower swayed in the cold February breeze. The Canadian troops swayed from excited anticipation. Most of the troops had never rappelled off a tower before. “The rope closest to you is going to the ground,” said U.S. Army Staff Sgt. William C. Dalton, a native of Roanoke, Va. “That’s where you’re going.”...
