ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The MSC would like to thank all past and current abseil instructors for their support in keeping this handbook up to date. The MSC is also grateful to all those involved in this edition and earlier editions of this manual: Lorena Allister, Mike Atkinson, Paul Babbage, Nick Banks, Marty Beare, Pete Brailsford, Ray Button, Ian Calhaem, Des Coe, Ben Corcoran, Karen Corcoran, Andrea Corrigan, Theresa Crewdson, Grant Davidson, John Entwisle, Barbara Freeney, Sonia Frimmel, Ray Goldring, Ann Hayman, Charlie Hobbs, Jamie Holding, Mick Hopkinson, Chris Knol, Lindsay Main, John Maine, Jim Masson, Danielle Millar, Dave Morgan, Pete Ozich, Scott Pearson, Ian Phillpot, Trevor Plaisted, Bruce Postill, Richard Schmidt, Lorna Schmidt, Nigel Seebeck, Bev Smith, Hugh van Noorden, Des Williams and Pete Zimmer. The MSC thanks the following people for the use of photographs in this manual: Cover, Page 41: © Orton Bradley Outdoor Education Centre; Pages 1, 27 © Jimmy Ponsford; Pages 9, 15, 33, 39, 53, 55, 61 © Nathan Watson; Page 23 © Sean Mulvany; Page 36 © Aspiring Enterprises; Page 49 © Nigel Seebeck. The MSC thanks the illustrators for their work: Sonia Frimmel: Figures 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8a, 8b, 9, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32(a), 32(b), 32(c) Scott Pearson: Figures 1, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 22, 24, 26, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
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