Here you can see the rope being braided around the core yarn, as it's pulled up through a dye. This is the braiding action in slow-motion. It produces a mountain climbing rope. Strong, yet ...

Half ropes, as used in double rope technique, are recommended for trad climbing, mountaineering and long rock routes where abseil descents are required. Also recommended whenever runners are of ...

but the nature of the climbing (a long mountain route with snow and ice), its length, the remoteness of its position, and this curious decision to eschew using a rope to rappel out of stylistic ...

Things like rope work, belaying, climbing, crevasse rescue and self-arresting are all examples of these highly important skills. There is also a discipline of ski racing called Skimo, technically ...

Climbing season is about to start on the world's highest peak, and Outside is headed to Base Camp to report on these and ...

The Mule Knot (a.k.a releasable knot) is ideal to lock off the rope on the belay plate. There are many occasions in climbing when, belaying from the harness using a device which does not self-arrest ...

The mountain ... fixed ropes as high as Camp 2 with the intention of moving higher in the coming days. The move higher to Camp 3 presents the most dangerous sections of the entire climb due ...

Half ropes, as used in double rope technique, are recommended for trad climbing, mountaineering and long rock routes where abseil descents are required. Also recommended whenever runners are of ...