Carabiners

A biner that can hold up to the corrosive effects of salt water, in addition to normal wear and tear.

The Grivel Twingate carabiner isn’t the first design with two gates, but it is the best.

The Djinn Axess Quickdraw (the D is silent) is Petzl's new "beginner's" quickdraw. But I'd argue that Petzl got it wrong. The Djinn Axess is not only great for beginners, but the draw fills the bill for seasoned sport climbers looking for an inexpensive quickdraw that works as well as the best.

Metolius Gatekeeper locking carabiner uses an interior wire gate to help prevent crossloading when you are belaying or rappelling.

Review of the Black Diamond Magnetron Rocklock, the first carabiner with a magnetic locking mechanism.

Thanks to the machining wizadry of Rock Thompson, the Pirate’s screw-gate locking sleeve actually reinforces the gate, giving it an outward (minor axis) strength of a whopping 11 kN—nearly 900 pounds more than your average locker.

Carabiners are the one piece of climbing gear you can never have enough of. Paradoxically, like socks and beer, they vanish as mysteriously as if they’d been put on a log raft and sent down the Amazon—for every two carabiners I acquire, one runs off.

Once an anomaly, wire-gate carabiners are taking racks by storm. With more than 40 models swelling store shelves, choosing the right one is ...

Wild Country HeliumThe Helium Clean Wire is the first carabiner to use the I-beam construction that makes steel girders strong yet light.

Friction, the resistance of motion to surfaces that touch, is paradoxically a friend and foe. Underfoot, we can't get enough sticky friction. But when we drag the rope up rock, we do anything possible to avoid it.

Boulder Based Designs has introduced The Mark, foolproof gear-marking paint/epoxy—one that would not flake or wear away.