There are many mysteries in life, including why we end up with so many odd socks during the laundry process, why does bread toast perfectly the first time and then burn the next time – and why do ...

After summiting, it's easy to feel like the challenge is over and all that remains are a few simple raps. Your situational awareness and risk perception change, distracting you from the necessary ...

Rock and mountain climbers rely on strong, yet elastic ropes to keep them safe should they happen to fall. Now mathematicians at the University of Utah have come up with an equation to design an ideal ...

Ten people with the Directorate of Emergency Services (DES) Fire Department completed 40 hours of training in the Ropes Rescue I course for technical rescue. The firefighters completed training on ...

(WHTM)– Setsmart is recalling around 22,500 LoGest Climbing ropes due to a fall hazard, with one incident involving a severe spinal cord injury. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission ...

I hate myself when I uncoil new climbing ropes. I always mess it up and it ends up an impossibly tangled heap that takes at least 30 minutes to undo. I finally watched a YouTube video the other day ...

A 69-year-old Colorado man with decades of climbing experience was saved by other climbers after a 100-foot fall caused by a rope failure two weeks ago. The man fell Nov. 2 while climbing in Eldorado ...