Tie Up - Essential knots and hitches for climbers
All through my climbing career, one of the most asked questions has been: which are the absolute essential knots and hitches that a climber must know and master. In the world of climbing (rock, ice, mixed, alpine, high altitude, etc) there are knots and hitches galore as a rope is our essential tool of the trade. And wherever there’s a rope there would be a knot or a hitch. There are literally hundreds of such knots and hitches used widely not only in the fields of climbing and outdoors but also by the seafaring sailors, in the jungles and forests by forest dwellers and shepherds, hunters, and by anglers, even in the villages to tie up domestic animals. I have indulged in a bit of all such occupations, mostly as a climber and a seafarer and often that of a shepherd, very rarely as an angler and never as a hunter except accompanying one on a wild goose chase purely in the role of a dormant observer. If you add jungle-warfare and special-forces (not to mention BDSM) to m...