It varies from piece-of-cake to holy-sh!t. It's truly scary. The near 90-degree part is slippery granite even when dry. Theoretically, with gloves and good upper body strength, it's doable by your average Joe. When I was there, an older gentleman had a heart episode at the very top. So yes, there are different ways back but it's either a helicopter or a litter.
After I got to the top on the cables once, a team of rope climbers came up to the top from the other side. I said to one, wow, I can’t believe you guys do that. He said, I can’t believe you use those cables..