Hardware

Seilkurs a 555K PostScript file

containing a rope-course (knots, 'crabs, ...). In german. Created by Benedikt Schenker <schenker@tech.chem.ethz>.
LaTeX-File mail it back to me if you have translated the course to another language. I will then make another PostScript file.

Prusik Rappel "Safety"

Article by Gary D. Storrick <71250.2777@CompuServe.com> on the use of prusik knots in caving, but very relevant to climbing.

Rope Data

Put together by Markus Blanchebarbe <ib14-4@sol.cs.uni-sb.de>.

Ad hoc test of an old rope

Reported by Sean Cleary <cleary@math.ucdavis.edu>

Friction, Fear, Friends and Falling

Contemplations of a Climbing Physicist, by John Wylie. HTML-ized version by Peter Steinmetz <peter@bme.jhu.edu>, including comments of the calculations.

Ilana's guide to climbing shoes for everybody

By Ilana Stern <ilana@niwot.scd.ucar.EDU>

Lamp Regulator

Increases time of operation for your headlamp. Scematic included <160K PostScript>. Created by William Hunt <willie@cs.indiana.edu>.
NB! You can order PCB, assembly kits or a completely tested regulator. Ask William!
Status as of 940321

Climbing holds

Where to get them, how they look etc. By Rick Dean <deanrd@eecs.nwu.edu>

Knotting Dictionary

Some knots and pictures of them.

Spectra and Nylon weakening

Faxed from Blue Water, posted by Jeff Deifik <jdeifik@isi.edu>.