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Libby peters Rock Climbing: Essential Skills & Techniques is the main resource for UK mountain leader qualifications. Covers all the essential skills for rock climbing. This is very much from t...
Maybe barbed wire fences are built differently in different parts of the world - at any rate, nobody really mentioned the way that we as kids learned to cross them safely. Crossing on top in the m...
That kind of problem is miserable, but fairly common. There are a few things I'd suggest to solve it. Good, wicking underwear. It sounds like you've tried at least one version, but it is wo...
One practical use is to get an idea of how stable/chossy the rocks in a particular area are. From experience the orange (volcanic) rock type is much more unstable and more broken up. That makes it...
It will depend on whereabouts along the Thames you live but there are many canoe and kayak clubs and water-based outdoor recreation centres around. It is possible to get into it without any trainin...
By 'faint' you mean the person lost consciousness or was it just weakness? I was in a similar position but not that severe. I was in the wrong assumption that I was acclimatizing fine because I was...
There is a little bit information out there (here), about falls of climbers heavier than normal which suggests (very roughly) almost a linear relationship between fall load (force) and body weight,...
The problem is that desalinating water is hard; nearly desalinating it isn't much easier (it would be possible to design a bad reverse osmosis system but there isn't much market for that). Instea...
The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy. References using that term can include many insects. I've narrowed it down to ants and termites as best as I could, although some of the genera...
I am almost certain this is caused by Sciuris niger or the Fox squirrel. In south Georgia they are mostly light gray with black and white, however where I am at slightly above the fall line in Geo...
As EN norms are not publicly available and quite costly, I can't confirm for sure that there is no temperature testing - but from what I hear there is none. If anyone can authoritatively confirm or...
TL;DNR: If you have a safety problem climbing with children, it won't be because the rope is a bit old. You need to define what you mean by 'Safely'. I put it that is impossible as it varies for...
I've done nearly all of my camping and hunting in deer tick country. You're on the right track with the basics: DEET, long sleeves, long pants, and high socks. At night use mesh as suggested in c...
The answer is in this video: https://youtu.be/seCiupa4I6U?t=1m2s I'm not sure if it's the same traverse as the OP posted, but I'd bet on it. The thing that looks like a biner between the columns i...
For peace of mind, the tried and true method is to do a check at the end of the day. According to the Maine Department of Infectious Disease (Response to Question #20): Ticks need to be attach...
Like many prey animals, vision is optimised to detect danger coming from anywhere. They can see you with one eye very easily, and their reflexes are on a hair-trigger to take them away from incomin...
As there are already a lot of good answers, I thought I'd just tackle the one bit I haven't seen addressed. tldr: Drinking water and passing water can help remove excess heat in itself, disregardi...
TLDR: This is a very common setup here and intuitively I always thought it was 4:1. So I needed to check more rigorously and the result is: Petzl made their homework, it is 7:1. Let me try to expla...
As a native Floridian I can tell you dealing with the heat takes a lot more awareness then dealing with the cold. Cold is easy compared to heat. Mostly because cold effects can be felt, while heat ...
A knot that's simple and easy to use, explicitly for the purpose of tying in to the middle of the rope, would be the Alpine Butterfly. Tie it, then put it to your belay loop with one or two lockin...
Given your purpose, I would choose a surfing suit. They tend to run much cheaper than scuba suits as their purpose is different. They also tend to have more generous room in the arms and shoulder...
That tree got bent over but not snapped when it was just tall enough so that its tip was where the end of the bend is now. One of the small branches near that tip happened to point upwards after t...
Randall Munroe has the single best article on this I have ever seen, over on his What-If site where he discusses what would happen if all the water in a cloud formed one giant raindrop. I recommen...
3 to 7mm utility cord. It is designed to be tied. If you go to a climbing retailer you can typically buy by the foot.
The existing answer is perfectly fine, I just take a little different angle: Use any rope-like object that fulfills either of these two conditions: You already have it. It will be useful for w...
