Thanks Ryan! I always find Munter hitches more confusing to tie than cloves. This is super helpful for helping me internalize this rather useful knot. Keep up the good work!
Ryan, I appreciate all your videos and everything I've learned from them. But I have to disagree with this one. Converting a munter to a clove is a neat trick at best. It is a quick way to secure a 2nd, but at what cost? I try not to use the word 'never' but I can't imagine any scenario where it would be acceptable to unlock the belay carabiner with a person's life hanging on it. That locker stays locked until I hear 'off belay'. Second, it's too easy for the belayer to tie the clove wrong and lose the climber. I think an MMO or an air clove is far safer and costs very little extra effort/time/gear.
I'd say this falls I to the category of stuff you do guiding that you don't do on personal climbs. Imagine you're belaying a client up some fourth class terrain that you're ascended solo without a belay. You're trying to move fast on a long alpine route and you need a way to secure them while you climb the next pitch, and your belay station is on a big ledge with almost no fall danger, so your tether is more of just a backup. An MMO would be more bulk for the client to mess with when it's time for them to climb and
Belaying people like this is dangerous. In the video you let go of the braking side of the rope at every time you pull rope in from the climber's side. "Pinching" the rope in that moment it becomes likely that you cannot hold a fall. I suggest you to delete and re-upload the video since it shows a plain mistake.
Thanks Ryan! I always find Munter hitches more confusing to tie than cloves. This is super helpful for helping me internalize this rather useful knot. Keep up the good work!
Great tutorial, thanks for sharing
Great video.
I didn't understand the two different ways you showed how to tie a window munter. They both ended up in the same direction.
I'm curious, Why are there random anchors there?
Guessing that it's an instructional area.
Ya, I was at the rock wall at the mountaineers HQ in Seattle.
Ryan, I appreciate all your videos and everything I've learned from them. But I have to disagree with this one. Converting a munter to a clove is a neat trick at best. It is a quick way to secure a 2nd, but at what cost? I try not to use the word 'never' but I can't imagine any scenario where it would be acceptable to unlock the belay carabiner with a person's life hanging on it. That locker stays locked until I hear 'off belay'. Second, it's too easy for the belayer to tie the clove wrong and lose the climber. I think an MMO or an air clove is far safer and costs very little extra effort/time/gear.
I'd say this falls I to the category of stuff you do guiding that you don't do on personal climbs. Imagine you're belaying a client up some fourth class terrain that you're ascended solo without a belay. You're trying to move fast on a long alpine route and you need a way to secure them while you climb the next pitch, and your belay station is on a big ledge with almost no fall danger, so your tether is more of just a backup. An MMO would be more bulk for the client to mess with when it's time for them to climb and
Belaying people like this is dangerous. In the video you let go of the braking side of the rope at every time you pull rope in from the climber's side. "Pinching" the rope in that moment it becomes likely that you cannot hold a fall. I suggest you to delete and re-upload the video since it shows a plain mistake.