Edelrid Starling Protect Pro Dry 8,2 mm Climbing Rope - 50 m - yellow-night

Extremely robust half rope | increased safety with edge loads

Ropes are often exposed to sharp edges, especially in alpine terrain. This is why Edelrid is now equipping the tried-and-tested STARLING half rope with Protect technology for significantly increased cut resistance. In Edelrid's Protect ropes, the sheath is reinforced with aramid fibers using a special processing method without impairing the dynamic properties of the rope.

Features of the Edelrid Starling Protect Pro Dry 8,2 mm Climbing Rope

• Higher sheath content and processing of aramid for increased cut resistance under load, e.g. over sharp edges
• Permanently water and dirt repellent thanks to Pro Dry finish
• Water absorption of < 2% is significantly lower than the UIAA Water Repellent Test
• Comfortable handling thanks to Thermo Shield treatment
• Ready for immediate use without craning thanks to 3D lapcoiling

Thermo Shield

Thermo Shield is the basic treatment with which Edelrid treat all ropes to guarantee the proven suppleness of EDELRID ropes. This treatment is a thermal process that perfectly matches the core and sheath yarns. A special heat treatment causes the fibers in the rope to relax and shrink. This harmonizes the gliding properties of the yarns within the rope and makes the rope supple and compact. This produces ropes that neither shrink nor stiffen quickly.

Features of the Thermo Shield finish

• suppleness
• compactness
• Longer service life
• no post-shrinkage

Pro Dry

Untreated ropes can absorb up to 50 % of their own weight in water. When wet, such ropes become extremely heavy, uncomfortable to handle and can freeze in cold conditions. They also lose a large part of their safety reserve. Pro Dry is a newly developed finishing process that counteracts precisely these problems. In this finishing process, the core yarns are impregnated in a first step. After the braiding process, the finished rope (core and cover) is impregnated again. The impregnation is then thermally fixed. The result is a rope that is permanently water and dirt repellent. The ropes dry particularly quickly, hardly increase in weight when wet and do not freeze easily in cold ambient temperatures. Thanks to the low water absorption of 1-2% according to the UIAA Water Repellent Test, Pro Dry ropes hardly lose any performance in wet conditions and therefore offer high safety reserves even in wet conditions

Lap Coil

In combination with the well thought-out packaging design, it is now child's play to start climbing with the new rope straight away. This is because it is very easy to pull out. The markings on the rope and the detailed description on the packaging make it even easier to pull out, so that the rope can be used immediately without any annoying twisting and tangling.