we can trust it around camp. A bonus to the double fisherman’s knot is that it’s a lower profile compared with other methods of attaching two ropes —the figure-eight knot, for example. This means you can easily pull your rope through a carabiner if you need to hoist a bag or haul...
A lot of things we do each day involve converting energy between potential and kinetic. Pull yourself up a cliff on a rope and you have more potential energy the higher you go up. If you abseil down, your potential energy is converted into kinetic energy as you move. By the time you r...
Fig. 2: Distribution of forces fixed with overhand stitch. Formerly also referred to as "Abseilstand". Common in the USA since the 1980s. Illustration:Mountaineering Brilliant at first glance and accepted doctrine in German-speaking countries until the 2000s. I was first confronted with criticism...
When Luke abseiled down to him, he says: "I did everything I could to revive him but it was too late, he was gone."It took six hours before the rescue operation was complete, and the news reached London about four hours after that. When Felix's 25-year-old sister, Dorcas, got ...
When Luke abseiled down to him, he says: "I did everything I could to revive him but it was too late, he was gone."It took six hours before the rescue operation was complete, and the news reached London about four hours after that. When Felix's 25- year-old sister, Dorcas, got...