How to Tie a Klemheist Knot

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Now I'm going to show you the Klemheist knot. The Klemheist is another knot that is used for climbing and caving. I'm not a climber or caver myself, so make sure you talk to someone before you attempt to use these knots in doing either one of those activities. If you look down here you can see I have two lines set up. This right here would probably be my main line. And of course I would not use this kind of rope if I were climbing. And this here would be my line that I'm going to use over it. And as you can see I've already created a loop here. So this is a complete looped line here. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to wrap it once, keeping the lines together. One full turn. Two full turns. And a third full turn, you can go more if you wish. I'm going to take it, and I'm going to take it and bring this other loop through, bringing it down. This is more of, now this is more of a mechanical knot. This is made for sliding. When it grabs it will grip, but as you loosen your body weight off of it on your other line, you can actually slide this down, and keep using this line. And as you are climbing down, or climbing up.

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