Every assisted braking device (ABD) can inadvertently lock the rope to varying degrees when quickly feeding out slack to a ...

Clip a locking carabiner through both the groin loop and the waist loops of your harness (the same loops you tie into). Take a loop (bight) of rope from the end which the climber is not tied into and ...

A 15-year-old climber was rescued after getting wedged in a crevice between boulders in a remote ... The boy’s breathing was ...

A BRITISH climber has been killed and a pal injured ... He said: “The waterfall is about 17 rope lengths long and is the longest we have here. That is why it was originally named Gausta Marathon.

A Serbian climber, Dren Mandic, was the first to die in the Bottleneck. Mandic lost his balance and slid more than 300 feet down the steep corridor after unclipping his rope to let other hikers pass.