Twin Cities Urbex Club

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4/6/2025 Teen rescued after falling 20 feet through grate at abandoned Ford plant

A teenager was rescued by firefighters after falling at an abandoned Ford plant building in St. Paul.

St. Paul Fire Department says it was called to 965 ...

Little bit more information:

https://www.ingstadmedia.com/man-dies-after-being-found-unresponsive-in-fairbault-manhole/

FARIBAULT, MN – On Friday morning, Faribault first responders discovered a man in a manhole filled with toxic fumes and dangerously low oxygen levels. The incident occurred at ...

There's an awful lot of smoke there for there to be no fire, but the devil's advocate in me says that if I found a scrapper's sawzall in a tunnel, I'd 100% leave with it. Of course, I wouldn't be in there at 9am. Also, that entire system is 2 basically straight walking height tunnels with 1 ...

Xcel employees later found that someone had dug through the ceiling of their sandstone tunnel and accessed a tunnel above theirs that contained wires belonging to another service provider. The damage was new and hadn’t been there when they left Monday night.

:lol: That connection has been around ...

I set this up in my practice space and found it to be a lot easier than ascending using a hand ascender and a foot loop with a progress capture device, but in the field on a 50' climb I found it was still really tiring to pull myself up. At first I thought there might have been some twisting of the ...

Inline figure-right aka directional figure-eight aka figure-eight directional loop aka figure-eight on a bight

Can be used to make hand-holds on a rope, or connect a load to the middle of the rope. Has to be loaded in the correct direction, or it may fail.

https://youtu.be/Kc1yF0uBv7Q?si ...

Double figure-eight loop aka figure-eight double loop aka bunny ears

Used to connect a rope to two anchors and equalized to split the load between both anchors.

Figure-eight knot aka figure-eight loop aka figure-eight follow-through aka trace eight

Often used to connect a rope to an anchor, or to a harness. This is arguably the only knot you need in order to start climbing.

https://youtu.be/PJkCaUUhqgs?si=TWKa0detGcPlcdvQ

https://youtu.be/QAr-uHd8h8o ...

One thread to tie them all! Post all pictures/videos/links of knots here. If someone posts a bad knot, it may be removed, or have a note added.

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/saint-paul-police-medical-examiner-investigating-death-of-man-in-underground-cave/89-c842e6d5-29ef-4a50-956d-b1064e764827

11/24/2023 Saint Paul police and medical examiner investigating death of man in underground cave

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Inside an ...