And it has many uses, for example, you can use these rope knots to fasten a mooring line to a ring or a post. Rescue operations use bowline knots in repelling. You can even link two bowlines ...

Tie off the extra tail of rope to the live end of the rope using several overhand knots or a double fisherman's knot. Clip a locking carabiner through both the groin loop and the waist loops of your ...

The Mule Knot (a.k.a releasable knot) is ideal to lock off the rope on the belay plate. There are many occasions in climbing when, belaying from the harness using a device which does not self-arrest ...

While some have brought a long rope and made a 'safety circle' out of it within which a group moves, many others have chosen to ties knots using clothing items of each other to remain connected.

What does this mean, exactly? According to researchers, people were consistently unable to tell when presented with different knots in simple applications and asked which knot was stronger or weaker.