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Sliding down such a rope for even forty feet or so can burn the flesh from one's hands. - (Renegades of Gor, Chapter 17, Sentence #505)

In an Ihn or so she had struck the hill of debris and then, still moving, still descending, the rope still uncoiling, turning over and over, tumbling, rolled toward the bottom, toward the courtyard. For an instant it had been hard to get my hands on the rope, it was moving so, over the edge of the walkway, but, a moment or so after she had struck the hill of debris, I had it in my hands and began to descend it, rapidly, hand over hand. I would not slide down the rope, incidentally, because I did not have protection for my hands. Sliding down such a rope for even forty feet or so can burn the flesh from one's hands. One can be crippled for weeks. Under certain conditions, this may be an acceptable cost, but it is not likely to be so if one expects to have use for the sword in the near future. As soon as I reached the hill of debris I had my feet under me and I then, even more rapidly, half sliding and jumping, holding the rope, hurried down the hill. - (Renegades of Gor)