For those of you using the Guide mode on multi pitch routes. The advantages are numerous, but you need to make sure you are up to scratch with what to do in an emergency. Being “outside the system” is an…

For those of you using the Guide mode on multi pitch routes. The advantages are numerous, but you need to make sure you are up to scratch with what to do in an emergency. Being “outside the system” is an…
Khumbu Climbing Center (KCC) found its home high in the Himalayas of Nepal. KCC aims to keep climbers safer by advocating responsible climbing practices; for two weeks in the winter season Nepali climbers retreat to KCC where they learn technical…
Wild Country and Climbing Magazine have produced a series of ‘How To’ videos designed to demonstrate basic climbing skills and techniques. In this video Julie Ellison, Climbing Magazine Gear Editor, shows which knots are best for rappelling. Julie shows how…
by Jack Geldard – Consulting Editor 03/Oct/2016 for UKC Following recent online discussion stemming from a Rock & Ice article about appropriate abseil knots – and some confusion over certain types of knot and their nicknames – we asked Jack…
Learn about the different kinds of climbing and mountaineering ropes and the safety standards regulating their use. As with most safety equipment, the correct use of climbing rope is made clear by the certified standards it complies to. It is…
In 1991, the EU adopted a policy of a single emergency services number which would operate for free on any phone, landline or mobile including foreign mobiles. Though many of the 80 countries including all of the EU and beyond…
The following article is courtesy of Kolin Powick (Rock and Ice Magazine) I was climbing in Yosemite last summer and, while at a belay, was talking to a party from Bozeman, Montana. They noticed all the proto gear on my rack…
By Duane Raleigh You don’t have to have an apple konk you on the head to realize that as climbers our greatest enemy is gravity, and that gravity’s minion is weight. Defeating gravity by getting lighter, both in terms of ourselves…
By Duane Raleigh Falling is the opposite of climbing, which can explain why we apply every membrane between our ears toward getting up the rock, but dedicate precious little to hurtling down it. Falling, it seems, isn’t just to be…
By Duane Raleigh, with Alison Osius Original article from Rock and Ice Here. IN 1980 MY COLLEGE ROOMMATE, Mark Herndon, fell 100 feet on a two-pitch route. I was belaying from a stance at the end of the first pitch,…