Euro death-knot
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This is a stub article, for a class of abseil (rapelling) flat bends used by some modern rock and apline climbers to join two ropes together. While some Euro Death-knots have the advantage of pulling more cleanly after a rapel and thus may avoid binding and becoming difficult to retrieve, some of these knots can also invert leading to catastrophic knot failure (capsizing), thus the tongue-in-cheek nickname for this group of flat bends. In particular, the flat figure eight is notorious for rapel failure and should be avoided. (include named list of bends refered to as EDK's here)
[edit] External link
Please see the article on some of the Euro Death-knots here http://www.xmission.com/~tmoyer/testing/EDK.html
