Master the Blake’s Hitch knot — a reliable and versatile slide-and-grip knot perfect for climbing, arborist work, or securing ...

Master the Alpine Butterfly Bend and enhance your rope-handling skills! This tutorial demonstrates the proper technique, ...

LYNCHBURG -- A National Park Service report says a knot failure caused an Alabama rock climber to fall to his death near the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia last year. The report says the nonstandard ...

Two men look down as rescuers climb up a sheer cliff towards them. Utah County Sheriff Sgt. Spencer Cannon said the climbers were right to call 911 instead of attempting to remove the knot themselves.

There is a phrase from an old book that comes to mind when I think of what it feels like to wear the gear -- the waist-and-leg harness, the tight-fitting shoes, the length of knotted rope that runs ...