Abseiling: minimal kit

Loop in one end of rope used as seating harness.
HMS+carabiner can be used as rope brake if nothing else is available. Lower rope end ("braking rope") must be on the opposite side of the carabiner's lock, otherwise accidental opening can occur.

Since the HMS is very hard on the rope, I used another rope brake for the actual abseiling here.


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Take a professional course to learn the proper technique safely.

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• abseiling
• minimal
• kit
• HMS
• carabiner
• rope
• brake
• outdoors
• bushcraft
• nature
• wild
• life

[FFsup]

you can use the double or monster munther hitch if your worried about twisting your rope. search for monster munther here on youtube for info

[steintanz]

@FFsup Thanks for the tip - I haven't used that one so far. Seems to be very useful for heavy loads or rather thin rope/cord.

However the problem of twisting and rope-on-rope friction should be even worse in the double munter, isn't it? Of course climbing rope will take that stress without problems; it's just that I want to use my gear as long as possible and therefore I try to reduce unnecessary strain on it in the long run.

[laksmanshaathru]

song name?

[steintanz]

@laksmanshaathru ?

[redpyro911]

Does this method require two separate ropes? I can't figure out how one would tie a seat into the same line he is repelling on.

[steintanz]

@redpyro911 No, it can be done with only one rope too. You fix on end to a tree etc. and tie the seat loop into the end of the rope that would otherwise hang down - can you follow? (In the video I did the same, except that I used both ends for abseiling; but the seat loop was in one of the bottom ends.)

[steintanz]

@buckmanstijn ... hehe! :o)=)

[buckmanstijn]

1 if I wanted to wreck my rope id just use it as a campfire

2 filming yourself wile belaying with 1 hand ...fool (buy a friend if you cant find one)

3you talk about minimum gear yet you bring 15kg rope for a 20feet descend?

[steintanz]

@MrMapex2010 ... hehe - oh yes!

[MrMapex2010]

Why waste money on expensive climbing shoes when you can use gumboots