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The IT Committee of the NSS
The APRIL 2018 ISSUE is now available. Earlier issues are here. Protect your membership by not sharing it outside your Society.
The April 2018 Conservation Issue is available here to the public.
The MARCH 2018 issue of the Journal of Cave and Karst Studies (Vol.80 No. 1) is now available. Find all issues and individual articles here.
How are ropes made? How do we choose the right rope? What’s the difference between static, low stretch or dynamic rope? Does my rope have to be certified? When do we retire them?
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Charles Gibbs reasoned that some type of ascender activated by the legs instead of the arms would desirably free one’s hands; the result was the Gibbs Ascender and the Ropewalker climbing system..
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