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SMC (Seattle Manufacturing Corporation) aluminum carabiner with screw gate and pulley. Maker's mark 'SMC' stamped on one side. Exact date of production unknown, but likely between the 1970s-1990s.

Ski Hut aluminum carabiner. Maker's mark 'SKI HUT' stamped on one side.

A climber heading up the verticle rocks of Long Gables, rope trailing behind him

Pete Schoening, photographed from below, climbing up a verticle face on Long Gables

Salewa aluminum carabiner. Maker's mark 'SALEWA' and 'MINDEST.2100 KG' stamped on side. Exact date of production unknown.

Salewa aluminum carabiner. Maker's mark 'SALEWA' stamped on one side. Exact date of production unknown.

REI aluminum carabiner. Maker's mark 'RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT INC' stamped on one side. Marked with a wrap of red and white tape. Exact date of production unknown.

REI aluminum carabiner. Maker's mark 'RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT INC' stamped on one side.

Pierre Allain aluminum carabiner. Maker's mark 'P. ALLAIN 1600KG' stamped on one side, reverse side stamped 'BREVETE S.G.D.G.' (sans garantie du gouvernement), which translates from the French to 'Patent without government guarantee'. Exact date…

A man in a large backpack rclimbing up steep rock and ice, using his ice axe