The boxy beige buildings of Crystal City are better known for deskbound defense contractors than for SWAT-style stunts performed outside.
From down below, it looked like something out of a heist film. Two bodies slid down a foot at a time, suspended in the air by a rope, as their legs propped them up against the 14-story concrete wall.
Most of the volunteer rappellers had to raise at least $1,000 to participate, and they did so in style: There was a group of family friends in multicolor tutus. A man who wore his harness over a white blazer that he asked other volunteers to sign. A petite woman in pink, flanked by her Bible study group, said she was ready to take the leap after God gave her the okay., raised $30,000 after writing on Twitter that his wife Kim was “going to push me off of a building.
But two by two, they went over the edge anyway. Among those who stepped up to the challenge was Carrie Sue Geiger, 53, who works as a case manager at New Hope’s Mondloch House.