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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		While lead climbing, to hang on the rope or an anchor for a rest.
		A carabiner with a locking gate, to prevent accidental release of the rope.
		The end of the belay rope that is attached to the lead climber.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/climbing_glossary.html (1795 words)

	Articles - Climbing equipment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Climbing ropes typically consist of a core of long twisted fibres and an outer sheath of woven coloured fibres (referred to as kernmantle construction).
		Dynamic ropes have a certain amount of elasticity and are usually used as belay ropes.
		For climbing a fixed rope attached to snow anchors on a steep slope, only one Jumar is used as the other hand is used for holding the ice axe.
	www.seekj.com /articles/Climbing_equipment (2056 words)

	Glossary of climbing terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The belay rope is clipped into a quickdraw in the wrong direction causing an increase in friction on the rope and an increase in the likelihood of the rope becoming unclipped during a fall.
		A method of rappelling, without mechanical tools, where the uphill rope is straddled by the climber then looped around a hip, across the chest, over the opposite shoulder, and held with the downhill hand to adjust the shoulder friction and thus the descending speed.
		A quickdraw is clipped between the climber's harness and the rope that is threaded through the gear.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Glossary-of-climbing-terms.htm (2791 words)

	ELEVATORS, LIFTS - Online Information article about ELEVATORS, LIFTS
		steel rope are required for its 24 shafts, and each rope can carry from 16 to 22 tons without breaking.
		By this alternate hauling and " rendering " of the rope the cage is raised and lowered.
		The governor may be on the top of the cage and driven by a stationary rope fixed between the top and bottom of the shafts, or it may be placed at the top of the shaft and driven by a rope travelling with the car.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ECG_EMS/ELEVATORS_LIFTS.html (2940 words)

	A glossary of mountaineering terms
		An object buried into snow to serve as an anchor for an attached rope.
		One common type of such an anchor is the snow fluke.
		A crevasse that forms where the glacier pulls away from a rock formation.
	mccammon.ucsd.edu /~adcock/mountaineering_glossary.html (1177 words)

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