Knot Store
01. Alpine Buttefly Knot
$15.00
No. 1
The Alpine Butterfly Knot is largely useful in mountaineering where it can be tied with gloves on, and made in a rope without access to either of the ends; a distinct advantage when working with long climbing ropes. Developed in 1928 by C.E.I. Wright and J.E. Magowan while attempting to improve the selection of knots available to climbers, the name is “so styled on the basis of a more or less fanciful resemblance [of a butterfly] imagined in the form of the knot.”
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