Ascend with one prusik and one prusik only
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- How to ascend a rope with a single 6mm prusik loop. And transition to a rappel. There are TONS of ways to accomplish this, and this is just one of those many, many options.
I intentionally wanted to show how much of a pain it was to do the foot loops.
This video was just to show that it can be done, not that you should do it this way.
There is a much quicker method for the feet. Start with your feet crossed, then put the rope inbetween, then uncross your feet and cross them the other way and using your top foot, stand on your bottom foot with the rope inbetween. It takes a bit of practice but its quite quick effective
Just anyone reading this note that never do this. You should never have a single attachment point, always use a back up. Another prusik is like bare minimum but better options are to use mechanical ascenders or directly tie in the climb line to your harness while you ascend.
There are also much better choices for the prusik style loop than the basic one. VT or double Michoacan are both breakable under load, perhaps even an autoblock could be used, so if you really have to do it with only one prusik and nothing else, do one of those that can be broken under load and roll a clove hitch tied from the climbing line as the back up. Always work out your slack from the back up system.
Put a loop down to your foot and then up to a munter on your carabiner ? Or roll a clove hitch around your foot and move it easily as you step… or use an alpine clutch on your belay loop… etc
good to see how to rappel with a munter ! nerver done it only belayed with it thx !
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Just wrap rope under your foot like a foot loop and bring rope up to main line and hold with 2 hands taught under your foot and you stand up and push prusik up all at same time ...
Learn to tie a blakes hitch and you wont need the prusik at all in a crap hit the fan situation
much more talented than I
im confused at the end of the descent part. I see the clove hitch you tied yourself hard to was low enough you could get to the ground without needing to pass it. My understanding would be that once you load the munter you would untie the clove hitch, is this correct? Thanks for the video, i've subscribed
That's the way I understand it. The clove hitch is just a back up in case the munter was not correctly set up.
That’s correct. I put cloves into the line as a safety measure, especially if you are just out practicing this stuff.
I prolly mess up the distance of my clove in a lot of my videos, my bad. I’m also filming them barely off the ground so people can see what I am doing.
Surely you don't have to do 4 Wraps around your foot with the rope? One loop should be enough yeah?
One wrap can totally work, just something ya have to mess around with.
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Why didn't to make a second prusik with a lengthened loop tor use with either foot or use the traditional locking of the rope between your feet? A method I devised for a belay for a single length of rope and a second low strength rope permitting one to regain the main rope after the descent: You make a loop at one end of the main rope and set the rope around a tree or boulder and place the end of the rope through the loop. Then you tie a rope of substantially lighter strength around the loop with a knot. Throw both ropes to below and when below, pull on the lighter rope to pull the looped end of the main rope down to recover the main rope.
Two days later, 20 ft higher !
You should be wearing gloves, preferrably with leather on. If you have the carabiner for a clove hitch after switching to descending, it might be a good idea to have that setup as well while ascending for extra safety. And just keep the prusik on when descending as extra safety. Then it will catch you if your unprotected hand gets burned and you release the munter ...
I was going to mention keeping the prussik on, thanks for pointing it out. I guess if the loop is small and you get very little extension on it, could be a pain. That's kind of the point though, you want it to catch.
+1 for gloves, or at least put your sleeve in your hand.
having never ascended with only one prussik my first instinct would be to use alpine butterflies and untie them on the way down. That way I'd at least have cat knots if I fuck up lowering on the munter. I've only ever done that with a grigri tho so I'm not sure how annoying taking the knots out on the way down would be.
footlock...?
This only works if the rope is fixed.
Hip thrust looks like be easier
Looks like the worst idea ever, but it's cool as hell that it's possible.
ya no, this is not a method