Falling from the top of a rock face with only a thin rope standing between you and oblivion is an unnerving experience made somewhat less so by the extreme reliability of modern climbing gear. “The ...

Knowing a few good knots can be a big help when you’re in the bush, and for canoeists, the bowline is the perfect knot to use when dragging. Once across Attikamagen Lake, we began traveling up a ...

There are two basic tie-in knots climbers should be familiar with: The figure-eight follow-through, or "trace eight," and the double bowline with a back-up. Heather Weidner, pro climber, explains the ...

June 11, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Tugboat bowlines, fisherman's knots, sheet bends. The best knots are named for their jobs on the ocean, but they ...

Pity the double bowline--it's gotten a terrible rap.starting in 1989 when Lynn Hill took a 70-foot groundfall when her partly tied bowline pulled free of her harness. But, still, for decades thiis was ...

The Arctic explorer Sir John Ross brought an Inuit sled back to England. On that sled the rawhide lashing were tied in knot similar to the bowline illustrating that this variant knot’s history does ...

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October 11, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The one DIY skill most of you don't have (according to last weekend's poll) is the ability to tie a bowline ...

Learn three different ways to tie a bowline, the King of Knots. We will show you how to tie a bowline knot diagram. The bowline (pronounced bo-lin) is the single most important knot for all outdoors ...