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 ...

Their bodies were dangling from their climbing ropes, still partially anchored ... fell more than 2,000 feet to their deaths ...

The climber who fell was 30-year-old Micah Manalese. The Clark County Coroner's Officer declared the manner of death as an ...

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 ...

A group of ice climbers helped wildlife officials rescue an elk after they found it tangled in a climbing rope on a Colorado mountain. Colorado Parks and Wildlife Southwest Region on X ...