Rope skills for scrambling 3: italian hitches, direct belays and short pitches

[@sdriza]

Love this type of climbing!!! We do this a lot on the difficult desert peaks in the winter out here. Fun, quick, and safe.

[@DaveMorrow]

Thanks for these!

[@adaptivo3692]

Humble question: From 0:57-1.05 the rope is taken in using an Italian. Is this method accepted by the MLTBUK? I was corrected in my ML training for doing the 2-strand grab. For what it’s worth, this is the method I’ve used since the 1980s so I was surprised to be corrected. A few seconds later he shows another technique which is the one I was shown on my ML assessment. I love these videos by the way👍

[@tybowman6946]

Wait… Did your climber clean the gear as he came up? If not why is he leaving it there? Why wouldn’t he clean the gear and then hand it over to you as the lead climber? Wouldn’t that make more sense? Then are you going to use the gear going back down? I wouldn’t think so. I think you would just rappel/abseil down, right?

[@sirshanksalot1]

Italian hitch = Munter hitch, no?

[@jeremyballard34]

Yes. Apparently it is a long story. The original name is from the German.

[@liama23]

Yes

[@isaacg901]

I came here to say that lmaoo

[@aryangod2003]

Don't do scrambling it is a dangerous sport. Much more difficult than either proper Climbing or Hiking

[@stevearnott00]

Why?

[@adaptivo3692]

It’s near-impossible to make qualitative statements about risk in an attempt to rank order different facets of climbing. Unless you want to write a very long and detailed post!

[@adaptivo3692]

Sorry I should add - it’s near impossible to make qualitative statements that are in any way accurate…👍