Pity the double bowline--it's gotten a terrible rap.starting in 1989 when Lynn Hill took a 70-foot groundfall when her partly tied bowline pulled free of her harness. But, still, for decades thiis was ...

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We have received the following appeal by the French Alpine Club section Causses et Cévennes that manages the Gorges du Tarn cliff reminding all climbers to tie a knot in the end of the tope before ...

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 record-breaking free solo climber has died while abseiling down the side of a cliff face in Mexico, according to reports. Brad Gobright, 31, is believed to have fallen 1,000ft to his death in a ...

Donald Wiseman had a reputation as a "good and considerate climber", the inquest heard An experienced climber fell to his death after he failed to tie his rope knot properly and it came undone, a jury ...