Besides hoses bearing water, few tools have proved as durable and as useful to New York City firefighters as rope. In longstanding rescue practices and on-the-spot improvisations, firefighters have ...

October 31, 2005 -- After recalling hundreds of safety ropes because one of them frayed during a training exercise last month, the FDNY said yesterday it has fixed the problem and expects to have ...

Considering the frigid weather climbers can encounter, safety ropes should be all-weather equipment. That’s why DICK’S Sporting Goods recalled about 63,000 Field & Stream safety ropes. The exact ...

It’s one thing climbing over 1,800 feet up a vertical rock face, it’s another thing altogether to do it without the use of safety ropes — at speed. In September, Dani Arnold scaled the imposing Cima ...

A hiker fell to his death on Mount Nama in China's Sichuan after reportedly untying his safety rope to take photographs near the peak. Hong, 31, was part of a hiking group scaling the 18,332-foot ...