What is "unroped"

Usage examples of "unroped".

Indeed, the first question he had addressed to me in this house, when he had unroped the blanket from about me, and I was before him, naked, my wrists manacled behind my back, was whether or not I was "white silk.

He had unroped so I had been able to arrange the abseil and I think he was quiet because he knew that if I hadn’t grabbed him he would have fallen the length of the East Face.

I couldn’t say Joe had fallen into a crevasse when stupidly walking unroped on the glacier, not after he had been through so much trying to survive.

He had then unroped the blanket which had been tied about me, and opened it, folding it back, almost as though I might have been a present.

The four of us were picking our way down the slope, unroped, lost in our own thoughts and in the not-unpleasant haze of exhaustion so common near the end of a climb, when K just came loose—perhaps he tripped over one of his own hindlegs, although he denied that later—and ended up on his stomach—or at least the bottom of his upper shell, all six legs spraddled, ice axe flying free, starting a slide that would have been harmless enough for the first hundred yards or so if it had not been for the drop-off that fell away to the glacier still a thousand feet directly below.

On one return walk, he cursed and stepped out on the face himself, unroped, holding one of the anchoring pitons with one hand and leaning out with something of his former insouciant daring.

There they unroped the Crochan from the tired horses and Gurgi brought out food from the wallet.