{"id":268,"date":"2007-12-18T13:36:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=268"},"modified":"2018-11-23T02:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T21:28:13","slug":"a-reason-to-rope-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/a-reason-to-rope-up\/","title":{"rendered":"A reason to rope up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/presidentglacier.jpg\" alt=\"presidentglacier.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The President Glacier, British Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We all know that glaciers are melting rapidly (thanks to global warming). Winnipeg climber friend David Cormie took this revealing photo in August\u2026 brings back sphincter-tightening memories of punching through into \u201cbottomless\u201d crevasses while on glacier crossings\u2014and a good reminder to travel roped even when the surface looks benign.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">This past spring I wrote and illustrated a booklet for the <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpineclubofcanada.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alpine Club of Canada<\/a> entitled <em>Top Climbing Knots<\/em>\u2014the piece includes two friction knots (the Prussik and the Klemheist) that are useful for climbing out of a crevasse\u2026 of course, only if you are roped to team members on the surface. :-| If you\u2019re interested in a copy of the booklet, contact me\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President Glacier, British Columbia We all know that glaciers are melting rapidly (thanks to global warming). Winnipeg climber friend David Cormie took this revealing photo in August\u2026 brings back sphincter-tightening memories of punching through into \u201cbottomless\u201d crevasses while on glacier crossings\u2014and a good reminder to travel roped even when the surface looks benign. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,21,11,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17080,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/17080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}