Category: gear

  • Counterfeit Petzl Products – Warning

    Petzl recently released a warning bulletin about counterfeit products being manufactured in China. These products look like Petzl products in every possible way but they do not meet the same safety UIAA and CE safety certifications. They have been demonstrated to break at much lower loads and are therefore unsafe. Click here to view the…

  • Back to Basics – Knots & Webbing – Climb Safe

    I am rethinking the safety of something I’ve been doing for YEARS. Specifically, knots – the use of them, the strength of them, the validity of them. There’s a handful of knots that we learn early on in our climbing days and once we learn them we don’t give much thought to how or why…