I slipped the top Jumar clip up until it actually scraped on rock, then raised myself and tried to work out how to get past.

This page (archived) gives an overview on the older Jumar models.

Had he not been clipped in with a jumar he would have certainly fallen to his death.

I swallowed and took hold of die first Jumar and tried to slide it up the rope.

Slide the Jumar up, step after it, slide again.

To prevent a jumar from accidentally coming off the rope, a locking carabiner is used.

The first try failed, but the second worked and I slid the Jumar triumphantly over the rock edge.

This time die Jumar clip slipped easily upward.

Prusiks are far less likely to damage the main rope than mechanical rope-grabs such as a jumar.

Up with Jumar and foot together.

Roger double-sets the jumar on the fixed rope above him, pulls up with one arm, the other around Frances's back.

It's compact, reliable and ideal for fast and frequent changes of direction on rope, especially in combination with a single jumar.

Jumaring Climbing a fixed rope with a Jumar clamp.

I hooked it in and passed the soaking end through my belt loop, then fastened die Jumar clips in position, one above the other.

Wickwire looked back at the fixed rope and saw Hoey's open climbing waist harness still attached via a jumar.

He performs 8 to 12 acrobatic jumps during two-hour training with the help of his Jumar or with a winch to lift him up.

The Croll is normally used in the chest position and in conjunction with an upper ascender or Jumar.

The cam allows the jumar to slide upward without hindrance, but it pinches the rope securely when the device is weighted.

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"It's not easy to get in, but we have our ways," said Ahmed Jumar, a 25-year-old professional soccer player who also belongs to a Shiite militia.

Paeran said that it was created by its ancestors, among others Udisedo, Jumar, Marto and Paerah.

His gloved fingers twist around the frigid jumar, sliding it up the frosted rope, clicking it home, pulling himself up.

Sooner use Heiblers myself, but the Jumar's safe and efficient and I've no Heiblers here.

She nods, He unclips from the fixed rope, sets the jumar once again right below Frances, descends to a good foothold and laces his hands together.

In 1958, two Swiss alpinists, Juesi and Marti teamed up, creating the first rope ascender known as the Jumar.