Scouts go over edge
About 300 scouts a day are going over the edge and down the face of a tower the height of a fourstorey building. Although many balk and are reluctant to take the final step, only a handful have given up and returned to the safety of the tower. An instructor, Mr Neville Fox, said that most of the reluctant
scouts could be “talked” down the face, although they could be accom--panied all the way to the ground if necessary. “Most go over by themselves,” he said. Many of the scouts have no abseiling experience and start on the 8m platform before graduating to the 16m platform. Mr Fox said that' the hardest ones to get over
the edge were deaf scouts and those with broken arms. :- ;i •’ Six staff work on the abseiling tower each day. /v.f The tower built by volunteers, will be dismantled after the jamboree and erected permanently at Blue Skies, near Kalapoi, the site of a jamboree in 1969. f
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Press, 7 January 1987, Page 10
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