How to Ascend a Rope with a GriGri and an Ascender

[Steve-bfuy]

It’s a good technique, but there are two minor deviations that I use. First, reverse the top biner and pulley so it clips around the rope and doesn’t interfere with the locking mechanism of your ascender. This is more comfortable and less likely to cause your ascender cam to disengage. Second, remove the brake strand from the pulley while descending. Keeping your brake strand above your grigri impairs your ability to manually brake the descent of the grigri fails to lock. Additionally, pushing the ascender into the top of the grigri will defeat the auto lock feature by applying downward pressure on the top of the belay device.

[roywilson]

Best I’ve seen describing this method. Super clear and to the point. Thanks for posting.

[eau-au]

Thank you for this video, I ascended a rock using this method today.

[ChristianTreber]

Best vid I saw for this. Clear, concise, short, and additionally good tips such as using the ascender for backup. Great!

[jaereilly]

needed this to learn how to change lights in a warehouse, thank you, friend.

[TheOddsMustBeCrazy]

I've seen a lot of videos on this topic and this one is the best. Nice and simple. You converted me to using a gri-gri instead of a Rope Man too.

[dragan]

You make it look so simple! Great video and clear tutorial. Cheers from Australia

[JohnnyZ]

Good job quick clear and concise, I like it

[stelz]

Damn dude, nice job. Simple, effective

[craigmelchiano]

Thank you. Can a PETZL MICRO TRAXION be used in the place of the pulley you attach here in this video? ❤

[sebastiancalanzone]

hello, excellent explanation; I was thinking if you can also use a "Nanotraxion" or "Microtraxion" to go up the rope to replace the GRI GRI you use in the video; I think it's the same thing, confirm?Bye...and GOOOOD YEAR!

[thebeardedman-drenaline]

Super simple and easy to understand, 10/10🤙

[anonpersn]

good video, especially for so few subs. clear and to the point without 10 minutes of safety briefs. do these with a few dirty jokes and i bet ya hit 300k subs in a year.

[harbourwoodlandvisitor]

i have never rope climbed before. i wanted to see how its done and he made it look so easy as easy as going up the stairs in your house.

[thecore]

Could you use a PAS instead of the daisy chain?
Or I doubt this would work but could you use the PAS as the Petzl Graidstep

[Hidden_Destinations]

at 02:15 you are letting go of the brake line and hanging by the Grigi. Is that OK? I thought you always need to hold the brake line when using a GriGri.

[PierreFarrugia]

Hello, today I tried your technique, is the ascender Black Diamond as I didn't managed to put 2 carabiners in the bottom hole.And if yes what are the carabiners used. Great video. Very helpful.

[valmir]

Hi, how many mm is this rope that you are using in the video?

[ARon]

Not so sure id keep the ascender on the rope rope while rapelling, if you inadvertently disengaged the lock on the ascender during the rap the teeth could destroy the mantle, I'd take the hand ascender right off, and tie a prussix as a backup

[flt]

I'm curious - if you're using a ladder strap to ascend, why bother running the brake strand through a pulley? Don't you get enough lifting power from your leg in the strap?