One standout
scaler used these acrobatic skills for a useful service. Louis "The Human Pendulum"
Fagan transported a crew of shifters around a projecting boulder on the Arizona side.
The man to be transferred would wrap his legs around Fagan's waist, grasp the rope,
and with a mighty leap, the would sail out into the air and swing around the boulder.
Fagan then returned for the next man in the crew. But perhaps the most famous feat of
the high scaler was performing a daring midair rescue. Burl R. Rutledge, a Bureau of
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