I'm a 97-pound weakling type, and an uncoordinated klutz on top of that. In high school Phys Ed, I never could climb the rope, couldn't even budge an inch. I just hung there at the bottom while all the other students laughed at me.
I wouldn't hesitate to slide
down
the rope if my life depended on it. And uncoordinated though I may be, I'm sure I could have summoned the presence of mind to steer myself into the boat. Wouldn't even care much if I scraped my hands raw trying to slow down. Going down a rope is
easy.
It's called gravity.
"I don't deduce, I observe."

I'm surprised that this is the only Titanic film to feature Major Arthur Peuchen climbing down the rope onto the lifeboat. It's definitely one of the most exciting moments in the film. Incredibly, Peuchen was 52-years-old at the time. Alas, Peuchen's poor conduct on the lifeboat he didn't stand up to Quartermaster Robert Hichens grossly throwing his weight around as well as failed to give Molly Brown her due credit for upholding morale on the lifeboat in newspaper interviews and the harsh comments he said to reporters in interviews about Captain Edward John Smith and the Titanic crew he called them both "substandard" ultimately led to him being deemed a coward in his native Canada because of his self-serving attitude.
I've been chasing grace/ But grace ain't easy to find