While lowering a climber to the ground the rope suddenly finishes and the end pulls through the belay device, resulting in the climber falling straight to the ground, often with extremely serious ...

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 ...

Learn how and when to tie these five knots for backpacking that should be in every hiker and camper's repertoire.

So easy, in fact, that a whimsical Englishman once won a bet that he could reach the summit without ever touching the mountain: he simply hired four guides and had them carry him to the top.

More than 60 passengers were evacuated using rope after a ski lift malfunctioned at Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire Wednesday morning, officials said. Cannon Mountain, a state-run ski area in ...