This device is a portable, wearable, semi-autonomous and tethered multirotor (aka drone, UAV) that is carried as a compact backpack but when engaged can lift or pull a user by various amounts. For sport, safety, strategic advantage, the ability to lift, even partially or in bursts, gives a physical advantage in a multiple uses.
Imagine hiking in the canyon lands of Utah, skipping across plateau to plateau. Or jumping cross a ravine with a roaring rapid. To scale or even jump over a wall.