Sentence examples for fixed rope from inspiring English sources

We had, I think, two aluminum ladders and a few hundred feet of fixed rope.

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He took no oxygen, and avoided using fixed ropes.

They stopped for an hour to reset the fixed ropes.

"For the first time since the late 1990s there were fixed ropes on all three mountains.

They climbed a hundred and fifty feet to the left of the fixed ropes.

We needed fixed ropes to negotiate exposed rocks, then had to avoid crevasses on the Margherita Glacier.

Climbers now use fixed ropes to ascend this section, but Hillary and Tenzing had only ice-climbing equipment.

When the fixed ropes were swept away by falling ice, some climbers were unable to cope — with deadly results.

At the same time Sherpas were laying fixed ropes for guided climbers to use on their way to the summit.

On that journey, 11 climbers died, 9 of them after an ice pillar broke the fixed ropes they needed to retreat down an icy chute called the Bottleneck.