Carrying Ropes when Climbing 83 
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When awkward places are reached, it is usually better to sling 
the coils on the outer shoulder since it may be necessary from 
time to time to pass them from hand to hand and deposit them on 
ledges or other projections whilst some difficult bit has to be 
climbed. It is essential that ropes should be neatly coiled and 
METHOD OF CARRYING A LONG PIECE OF ROPE DURING A CLIMB. 
seized round with string or yarn at several places so as not to 
present loops which may catch on projections on a cliff. The great 
danger incurred by using knots to join ropes is not the possibility 
of their drawing but their liability to jamb in some cranny of the 
cliff or against some sharp edge, either when lowering or hauling 
