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Learn tips and techniques for maintaining mountaineering and climbing equipment, including how to coil rope, how to care for shoes, helmets and harnesses, and stow and store climbing gear in these free video clip.
There are 15 videos in this series:
Learn how to care for and store a cam as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for and store a campus board and bouldering mat or pad as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for and store carabiners and quickdraws as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for and store crampons as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for and store hard goods like stoppers, air traffic controllers, and ascenders as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for and store a climbing harness as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for and store a headlamp as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for and store a helmet as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for and store an ice axe as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for and store a climbing ladder or etrier as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for, store and pack a haul bag as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for and clean rope with detergent as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for and inspect runners and tricams as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to care for and inspect climbing shoes as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Learn how to coil, wrap and stow climbing rope as well as tips and techniques for maintaining climbing equipment in this free video clip.
Maintaining and inspecting the highly specialized equipment used in rock climbing and mountaineering is of paramount importance. Checking over and scrutinizing the condition of your ropes, harnesses, shoes, helmet and other gear can mean the difference in life and death on your next climb. With all of the physical challenges involved in climbing the last thing you want to worry about is the safety of your equipment.
In this series of free video clips you’ll learn tips and techniques for inspecting and maintaining rock climbing gear. Expert climber Paul Helwig demonstrates how to examine various stress points in runners, tricams, ascenders and stoppers, how to properly clean and coil climbing rope, and offers advice on how to pack your gear safely in a haul bag. Following these simple safety precautions before you climb will help you focus on the primary objective: an exhilarating and successful climb to the top.
Paul Helwig Paul Helwig is an avid rock climber with over 7 years of rock climbing experience. Paul was taught rock climbing at an indoor rock climbing gymnasium in the winter of 2000. Since that time he has gone on numerous expeditions highlighted by an expedition to the New River Gorge in West Virginia. He has climbed in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Connecticut. Paul is a full time student at Millersville University and aspires to someday own his own rock climbing gym.dkdk
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