Bulletin of the National Speleological Society - ISSN 0146-9517
Number 18: 9-12 - December 1956

A publication of the National Speleological Society

New Caving Equipment and Techniques
Daniel Bloxsom Jr.

Abstract

For more than a year the Cumberland Grotto has been using unusual boat and rope climbing techniques unique to caving and mountaineering. Ingenuity is a requisite in the serious spelunker. Without it, men could only stand in awe at the brink of unplumbed pits, or look longingly at an underground river stretching into darkness. The author includes clear descriptions of the methods for tying prusik knots and bowlines, and discusses a system for ascending and descending a standing rope.

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