How's this for high adventure?
This September, the Mid-America Council is hosting an urban rappelling money-earning event. For $1,000 per person, people from the community and surrounding area can rappel down the side of a 478-foot skyscraper in Omaha, Neb.
Organizers hope to make about $50,000 from the event, with proceeds going to the council's Scoutreach program for inner-city youth.
The council already has Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle ready to don a harness and descend the Woodmen Tower, the second-tallest building in Omaha. To ensure safety, organizers are using a two-rope system and will employ equipment that meets industrial work site standards, which are stricter than recreational rappelling regulations.
For more about the event, read the Omaha World-Herald's exclusive story.
