This one had me curious.

“Some people skim down it, by putting their feet on one handrail, their upper back on the other and just sliding down (Illustrated below) – easy to get started, somewhat harder to stop. It’s also said that people carried hot food down from the barracks in the fort at the top to soldiers serving down below, rested on their stomachs; how much got spilled isn’t recorded.”

Sliding down 1975 is a cool shot on the following linked page. Speaking of Page, Stairway to Heaven blasting on his yet to be invented Sony Walkman.

Jacob’s Ladder