Page 34 - Peter Owen - Knots

ITALIAN HITCH Union Internationale des Associations
d' Alpinisme. The rope is passed around and
Also hlOwn as: MUNTER FRICTION HITCH, SLIDING
through a carabiner and will check a climber's
RING HITCH
fall by locking up. AJternatively, the rope can be
This addition to the mountaineers' lexicon of paid out or pulled in to provide slack or tension
knots was introduced in 1974, and it is the as required.
official means of belaying (that is, fixing a The major disadvantage of the knot is that it
rulUling rope around a rock or a cleat) of the is easy to tie incorrectly. I

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inlloval i!Jf: climbillg kllot
IIsed for belaying; ils cI,fe!
advantage being its means oj
absorb/lIS the ellergy of Q jail.
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