Securing herself to one of her fixed ropes, she crawled out along a horizontal branch, looking closely at all the flower heads she could find.

There are fixed ropes on parts of the route to help.

In addition, the sheer difficulty of the climb forced the two mountaineers to use fixed ropes.

High-altitude climbing Sherpas and the lead climbers will set fixed ropes up this wall of ice.

Also called rappelling, abseiling uses a fixed rope to descend.

The first ascent party reported ice up to 50 degrees, but they do not record the use of any extensive fixed ropes.

The climbers had not been able to retrieve their earlier fixed ropes and consequently there was no spare rope which Dave might use.

Finally, according to the release, the final 200 meters of the mountain are "comparatively gentle, so fixed rope is not a necessary option".

Carsolio climbs in Alpine style, with no fixed ropes or supplementary oxygen.

There is a fixed rope to help with a short section, although it may be buried by snow.