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Precipice knot

Here’s a riddle: how do you climb down a precipice

with a rope just long enough to reach the ground
and recover the rope at the bottom? The answer is

the most dangerous knot in this book – to be treated
with extreme caution.

1 Tie a figure-eight in one end of the rope. The bigger, hairier and more

gnarly the rope the better!