Climbing: Page 2

Check out this instructional climbing video that demonstrates how to daisy chain a Prussik to a harness for glacier travel. Setting your prussik up for glacier travel is the flavor of today. Paul shows us a quick simple way to daisy chain off your spare prussik cord. This stuff is well worth setting up before it is required. Often when you are in a hole things get awkward the more stuff set up the better your chances of getting yourself out.

This is just a short climbing tutorial that demos what happens just after you go into the crevasse. Ditching the pack is easy if you have pre-hooked the pack to harness. The nest step is securing yourself with a prussik and getting it ready to use as a stirrup. But as we see, practice practice practice. Check out this instructional climbing video that offers some self rescue tips from a crevasse while climbing. These are good safety tips and procedures to learn.

Learn how to tie climbing knots and how to care for climbing ropes in this free mountaineering video.

Learn about adaptive rock climbing for paraplegic rock climbers, rock climbers with autism, and young rock climbers in this free video on adaptive rock climbing.

ACMG Ski Guide Cliff Umpleby discusses how to build a T-Slot anchor using ice axe and skis. Once you have your anchor, learn how to use it to rescue someone from a crevasse. Part two demonstrates transferring the load onto the anchor and escaping the system. Part three demonstrates checking the victim and droppping a loop for a 2:1 pulley system. Part 4 demonstrates creating a Z Pulley for 6:1 advantage.

ACMG Ski Guide Cliff Umpleby discusses various aspects of roping up for glacier travel. Learn how to space out your party and keep everyone at safe distances.

How to tie a man harness knot is demonstrated in this video.

How to tie a retraced figure eight knot is shown in this video.

Learn what a climbing ratchet is and how to use one when climbing.

How to use a prussik knot to provide you with extra safety when rappelling down a cliff.

How to tie a knot known as the Euro death knot and a fisherman's knot for use when rappelling when climbing.

A quick and dirty tip on racking ice screws. It is good to have your screws racked on something stable if you are climbing steep ice.

Coiling a rope in such a way that you can use it for a backpack. The butterfly is a real quick simple method of coiling up your rope so that you can transport it and keep your hands free.

As the terrain changes in the mountains you will often have to change rope lengths to max out your safety. It is common to travel a good distance apart on a glacier or use large amounts of rope when dealing with technical terrain. However when traveling together on a ridge it is often safer and faster for both climbers to take in a few coils.

If you are using a 7mm prussik cord to build your anchor you must learn this knot. This knot can be used to beef the attachment point.

Every ski tourer that wanders on a glacier should watch this video. The basic procedure for building a snow anchor to perform crevasse rescue.

A demonstrate of two methods for coiling a climbing rope.

This knot is handy is you are saving on gear. Quite often I will choose to tye in over clipping in with biners. I often tyed clients in because I did not want them unclipping and running away without paying their bill.

This is a very useful belay knot. I have seen people wandering around with 3 or 4 belay devices on their harness and could never figure out why. It is like technology is going to solve eveything for you. Get back to basics and learn the fundimentals of climbing. This knot is certianly one of those.

Terry shows us how to set up the prussik for glacier travel. This is a demo of what to do with the ends of the prussik. Remember you have to know this knot if you are going to be a mountaineer. Terry places one on. In a real world situation he may place two on so that he has one going to the person behind him and one to the person ahead of him.

Really nothing more then a slightly more complex single fishermans knot. I know of no research stating that one knot is stronger then the other. You are more likely to use this when hooking two climbing ropes together to rappell. You would also use this for joining cordalette end together to form a loop.

This knot is common in the climbing world. We use it to secure two ropes together. Often used to form a loop on a prussik (cordalette) to construct an anchor. Can also be used to connect two ropes to rappel. This knot has many applications in the real world not just climbing.

Watch this video for a few hints on walking with crampons. They are easy things to use but can get you to unsafe locations quickly. Always be aware that the points are on your feet.

Tension traverse is demonstrated in this climbing video.

In this video series, our expert will show you the basics of how to do indoor rock climbing. If climbing a sheer cliff seems too daunting, let our expert demonstrate the basics of this slightly tamer extreme sport. You will learn tips on rock climbing holds, safety equipment and top roping.

This tutorial shows you how to unwind a rope on a reel and how to uncoil a hanked rope. You will need two people to unspool either rope type.

A quick demonstration of how to tie a figure eight knot. This is multi-purpose knot that can be used in climbing or other wilderness activities.

Need to get down a wall. This video will show you how to tie a rope and wrap yourself to properly abseil down a wall with just one rope.