

If you're willing to spend several hundred dollars, you can look into a pre-made personal escape system, such as the Petzl EXO seen in the video above. If you're trapped on the third floor of an office complex, and some form of disaster has made the lower floors inaccessible, you'll need to find another way out.

Outside of Hollywood fantasy land, you're likely not going to be an experienced mountaineer, and you won't have a complete climbing rig in your closet. Onlookers on the street below will applaud, and a beautiful woman in a red dress will be so impressed she'll hand you her phone number. If you need to escape a tall building via the window, you'd whip out your complete climbing rig (you know, the one you stashed for this exact scenario), strap on protective gear, and effortlessly descend the exterior of the building like a scene from Mission Impossible. In an ideal world, you'll be 100-percent prepared when disaster strikes. Looks easy, right? It is …as long as you're on a rock wall and supported by a guy off-camera holding the.
