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If you’re going trad climbing or sport climbing, you might be able to hang back and let others set up anchors and lead climb on multi-pitch routes, but there’s one knot you absolutely have to know how ...

From bow ties and shoelaces to sailing boats and climbing ropes, knots are not only very useful for our daily lives, but for mathematics too. Researchers have reported a new mathematical operation to ...

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 ...

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 ...