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Pair is going north in Great Britain, more or less to climb with equipment
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prusik
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A Prusik is a friction hitch or knot used to attach a loop of cord around a rope, applied in climbing , canyoneering , mountaineering , caving , rope rescue , and by arborists . The term Prusik is a name for both the loops of cord and the hitch, and the ...
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n. (context climbing English) a type of friction hitch vb. (context climbing English) To climb a rope using a prusik.
Usage examples of prusik.
At first, it all seemed standard: boots fitted with spiky crampons, full-body harnesses, prusik slings, day-packs, assorted carabiners, coils of rope, medical sensors.
I shake my traveling risers loose from my full-body harness, slide my hands over the crowded gear sling that we call a rack, find the two-bearing pulley by feel, clip it on to the riser ring with a carabiner, run a Munter hitch into a second carabiner as a friction-brake backup to the pulley brake, find my best offset-D carabiner and use it to clip the pulley flanges together around the cable, and then run my safety line through the first two carabiners while tying a short prusik sling onto the rope, finally clipping that on to my chest harness below the risers.