Review – Edelrid Anniversary Rope

The first thing I noticed about the Anniversary Rope – as I spent half an hour untangling it – is that it has a really nice ‘hand’, that term climbers use for the feel of a rope. This initial feeling proved to be accurate. Many ropes, particularly the first couple of times you use them, can often get annoyingly kinky, but the Anniversary Rope has run smoothly from the beginning, only really giving me problems when I have lowered climbers off badly set up anchors (like the clip-and-goes on Redex Irlont Sudano at Werribee Gorge) and that is hardly the fault of the rope. It also hasn’t stiffened up with use as some ropes tend to do.