Edelrid Lotse

Technical details:

I acquired my Edelrid Lotse [not Lhotse] from Walkhigh Mountaineering in 2007.

The Lotse is a grooved belay tube. It is forged from aluminum alloy and then hard anodized. Mine is 60 mm. long, 48 mm. wide, 112 mm. high, and weighs 77 g. The slots are 33 mm. long and 15 mm. wide. The top of the Omega oval carabiner that I use for comparing belay tubes sits 9 mm. below the ends of the slots. The keeper is a stiff plastic-covered cable.

One side of the Lotse is etched with an illustration showing how to rig the device, "EDELRID," "0104" (presumably the date of manufacture), and "30-0066."

Comments:

The Edelrid Lotse is essentially identical to the Salewa Tubus, Singing Rock, Trango Jaws, and Zero-G G-Wedge; so to avoid repetition, I refer you to the Trango Jaws description. In fact, the printed instructions that I received with my Lotse and Zero-G G-Wedge are identical; both refer to the device as a "Multigrip."

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