What is End Roping in Climbing? When Can We Use It and How Do We Do It Safely?

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So, as I say in the beginning of this video, it came about from an entirely different video. I was reviewing the La Sportiva Ultra Raptor II Junior shoes, which my kids use as approach shoes. You can find the blog and video that we made about them, here, and you can find another video about why I find approach shoes so important, here. Given that they don’t make true approach shoes in my kids’ size, we find these are stiff enough, but with great sticky rubber.

That’s not the point, though.

The point is that the video of our kids scrambling in these shoes had clips of us using this fairly rarely used technique called “end roping.” The video wasn’t about that, at all, but the clips brought questions.

… and I love that!

We don’t need to go far or search deeply to find the internet at its worst. But it is pretty heart warming when the internet actually does foster curiosity and community. I love that (for once), I didn’t really get any “your kids are going to die!” comments but instead got questions. Curiosity is an incredibly powerful mindset. In fact, I did a short video about it, calling it a “super power.” It empowers learning and connection to others, all at the same time.

So, no big rant for this blog post (accompanying this video), just a nice story of when the “popcorn effect” of one video spawning another video because we found a community of people interested in both topics actually worked out.

… and a story of when we lead with questions, we generally create positivity.

It was a nice feeling, and I appreciate the community for creating it.