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 ...

German mountain guide Robert Jasper has made a rope solo first ascent of Meltdown up the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. Robert Jasper has completed a new rock climb up the North Face of the ...

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 ...