as in: "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting." ?

i'm not sure Nietzsche was referring to his 'rope' as something to be crossed, but something to _be_, as in we all are constantly between animal and superman at all times

if we start somewhere with the goal of ending somewhere, that meshes less along their (and my personal, so this may be a judgement) lines of 'personal determinism'

the next lines: "What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going."

might help us with an opinion from a native speaker of Nietzsche