The alpine butterfly is a midline knot that can bear heavy loads. “It enables you to fix a loop anywhere along a line without using the ends of the rope,” Hopkins says. With roots in mountain ...

Knowing how to tie a knot is an essential set of skills needed in order to stay safe out in the wilderness, and one of the most satisfying capabilites you can have in your arsenal. Knots might ...

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 ...