How to Tie a Munter Friction Knot

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Summary: Learn how to tie a correct Munter Friction knot for hiking, climbing, or sailing in this free knot tying video clip.

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How to Tie a Munter Friction Knot

What I'm going to demonstrate now is the Munter Friction Hitch. This is one that is used a lot in the repelling and mountain climbing when you want to control the rate of descent. Now I'm not really a mountaineer or a climber or repeller. But if you want to do this, or use this knot, then talk to somebody that does this often and get their thoughts on this to make sure you feel safe in what you are doing. If you look down here you can see why I tell you to do that, because I'm using ropes and a hitch that I all ready, or a rope and a clamp here that I wouldn't normally use if I were repelling. So what I'm going to do, is I'm going to take this line that I have here, and I'm going to create a loop in it, just a little overhand loop, such as this. And I'm going to take this, it?s called a caribeener, but since I don't climb I don't really use these terms. I'm going to take this and I'm going to pull this under my line, like so. Now you can see this is an overhand loop like this, and I've used my clamp here to go up under it. Now what I'm going to do here, is I'm going to take it and push it back through the loop like so, and clamp it like this. Now what this is going to create is a knot that looks something like this. Just a regular, this would be just a regular hitch of a certain tie. But as you loosen the lower line, you will see that the top line will pull, and this is how you would control the rate of descent.