Take the top of the upper figure-eight loop and fold it down over the bottom of the rope, creating two concentric loops. Pull the two ends of the rope to tighten the knot, and you're there!

At this point, you should have a standard figure-eight knot with two to four feet of tail. If you’re securing the rope to an object, pass the loop around it now. Next, retrace your original ...

tie a Figure 8 knot in the rope approximately 3 - 3.5 feet (1 - 1.5 meters) from the end of the rope (Figures 1 - 4) Feed the running end of the rope through both the crotch loop on the harness (the ...

Thread the working end through the loop from front to back, forming a figure eight, before passing it through both tie-in points. Finally, pass the rope back through the knot so that it runs ...

The alpine butterfly knot is more than just a pretty name for an ingenious loop with multiple uses ... all of which work equally well. We use the figure-eight, step-by-step method below.

Tie a figure-eight knot by passing the end of a rope over itself to form a loop, then continuing under and around the rope, and back through the loop – the result should resemble a figure eight, hence ...

It can cinch down super tight after a fall and even become so fused that it's "impossible" to undo--Weidner says her husband once had to cut the rope because of a fused figure 8. However ...