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It's missing European Death Knot.

https://www.theclimbingguy.com/european-death-knot/

There was an article on HN a while back about a particular way of tying a rope to two pins at the top of a cliff in sort of a y-shape that doubles the stresses on the rope rather than reduces it (apologies if the details are wrong - I don't climb). I wish I could find the article.

Can't search properly in mobile but it's probably related to the "american death triangle", isn't it?

https://www.alpinesavvy.com/blog/a-closer-look-at-the-americ...

That's the one. Glad to see all the mis-tying isn't just blamed on Europeans :-)

I remember reading it before led me down this page of climbing mishaps (linked at bottom of page): https://www.climbing.com/skills/climbing-anchor-death-americ...

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