article_snippet.sent: While visiting, Liz climbed Ascension Island's infamous Jacob’s Ladder: a 699-step staircase that towers 600 feet in the air .
article_snippet.sent: The walk was an hour’s climb up
article_snippet.sent: a steep rocky hillside and half an hour’s descent down the other side ending in having to slither down a rope for the last 30 feet but more than worth it.
article_snippet.sent: And finally I did what any self-respecting visitor has to do and climbed Jacob’s Ladder.
article_snippet.sent: Once a tramway for hauling goods up the cliff side in the small capital of Jamestown this is now a terrifyingly steep 600 ft high staircase of 699 steps.
article_snippet.sent: Not wanting to risk passing out halfway up, I took a terrifyingly steep 600 ft high staircase of 699 steps very slowly, pausing every 50 steps and reaching the top in 28 minutes.