Glacier and Roped Travel for Mountaineering

Glacier and Roped Travel for Mountaineering | REI Expert Advice

You'll rope up with others for safety and travel as a team when tackling challenging terrain such as crossing a glacier or ascending a steep snow slope.

Rigging your rope for glacier travel — Alpinesavvy

What distance should you have between climbers? It sort of depends on the potential size of the crevasses you may be facing, but for moderate ...

Mountaineering Ropes - Newbies - CascadeClimbers.com

A 50 meter 8-9 mm rope will be a very versatile rope for glaciers as well as for alpine climbing, ice climbing, alpine rock climbing when used with a second ...

How to Rope Up for Glacier Travel - YouTube

American Mountain Guides Association Instructor Team member Jeff Ward explains the finer details of safely roping up for glacier travel ...

Rope teams: Rope spacing and roping up on a glacier | LAB ICE

The optimum size for a rope team is three to five people. The bigger the rope team, the less the risk of being dragged into a crevasse in the event of a fall.

Looking for a lightweight Glacier rope : r/Mountaineering - Reddit

For glaciers, I'd confidently recommend it. For rappelling, the only thing that works well IMO is the super munter. The super munter gives a ton ...

Desired rope and length for Two-man rope team, glacier travel

For pure glacier travel as a team of two, 40 to 50 meters should be plenty. If pitched climbing and abseiling is involved that changes. That ...

Question about rope for glacier travel - Mountain Project

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Selecting a Rope for Alpine Climbing

Nearly any rope, static or dynamic, is acceptable for holding a fall in glacier travel. A dynamic rope will lessen the impact on the person holding a crevasse ...

How To Rig Your Rope For Glacier Travel

For length, a 60m rope is standard. But you'll want a rope that allows for all members of the team to be able to clip in with adequate spacing and still have ...

Glacier rope - Mountain Project

Wondering what ropes you all use for kiwi coil/roped team glacier travel. Getting more into mountaineering with some trips to the PNW ...

Two person glacier travel | Forum - Colorado 14ers

... glacier leads to further technical climbing and multipitch rope work. Three people kinda sucks for ice climbs or switching between pitching ...

Rope suggestions for glacier travel : Gear - SummitPost

30m ropes are pretty worthless for all but the most benign snow slopes and glaciers. I'd recommend a 60m rope...the extra length is useful on ...

Roping up for Glacier Travel | Ask a Mountain Guide

The exact distance varies by the climb and current conditions, but normally it's around 30-40 feet. With a team of 3 climbers that will require the use of 60- ...

Chest Coils - Tying into the Rope on a Glacier - VDiff Climbing

Glacier Travel – Using the Rope · 1) Two climbers tie into the ends of the rope. · 2) The appropriate length of rope is measured between climbers. · 3) The middle ...

Essential Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue Kit

If you're crossing a glacier to get to a rock climb then you can use your climbing rope. However, if you're out skiing on a glacier or ...

Glacier Travel Parties of Two: Rope set-up - YouTube

How do you set-up your rope to travel as a party of two? What distance should you use between climbers? Should you tie knots?

Two Methods of Dividing the Rope for Glacier Travel - YouTube

When we form a rope team for glacier travel on a mountaineering route, we need to get the tie in points placed efficiently.

Roping Up For Glaciers - YouTube

A practical demonstration of roping up for glacier travel taken from the Mountaineering Council of Scotland's Alpine Essentials DVD.

Approaching a glacier as a roped team of two - Petzl USA

The two climbers tie in at each end of the rope. The tie-in distance is then adjusted with their tied off chest coils. In case of a fall, the belayer often ...