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 ...

According to "Climbing: Knots" by Nate Fitch and Ron Funderburke, to tie a knot, there must be a tail or bight of rope to ...

If there’s one knot to learn ... anywhere along a line without using the ends of the rope,” Hopkins says. With roots in mountain climbing, hikers in the middle of a rope team can use it ...