Hi Nick, nearly ten years on and your video is still the easiest and fastest way to do an Alpine Butterfly Knot. Thanks for your teaching.

Perfect video! 1) shot in 1st-person perspective 2) frame-filling close-up makes line easy to see 3) sloooow 4) multiple repeats Just perfect.

Nick, outstanding, for me! Thanks to you, not only can I tie this knot in a quarter the time I used to. I also now understand he knot and how it works. Thanks so much for taking the time to put up your take on it!

Here is a further improvement for your friend's numb fingers. You show three steps (but only two are needed): A. Wrap the loops left to right, giving this order: 1-2-3. B. Grab 2 and bring it under 3, giving this order: 1-3-2. C Take 2 over and under 1-3. Step B easily eliminated by wrapping the loops in a different order: A. Wrap the first two loops left to right: 1-2, and then wrap 3 between them, giving 1-3-2 right at the start. (This is just as easy as step A above.) -B. Grab 2 and bring it under 3, giving this order: 1-3-2.- (It is already in this order! Eliminate this step.) C Take 2 over and under 1-3. It is really obvious when you think about it. Because 2 is laid down before 3, if you wrap 3 between 1 and 2 it necessarily means 2 is already under 3 *and* in the rightmost position. Which was the whole point of step B. So step B is eliminated by a simple change in where to place the loops as you wrap them, and wrapping 3 between 1-2 is *way* easier and quicker for numb fingers than having to perform step B.

I love it when it is explained this simple, displayed so well. Fantastic!!! All my gratitude. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Great instructional video! The way you simplified it and made it so easy to follow along made understanding the process fun. Great technique teacher!

Wow! Thank you. That was great. I just watched 4 or 5 videos about tying knots, including your friend with the cold hands. I think they all had the Alpine Butterfly knot, which I'd never seen before, and I liked it but I just couldn't get the hang of it. I watched your video and it was plain as day,... and you demonstrated three times. I can for sure tie one now. Thanks again, a million times.

Not all heroes wear capes...some just show you how to tie an Alpine knot in the easiest way ever.

I think about this video every time I see someone try to show how to tie this some other awkward way. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you SO much! I've been trying to get my head around this one for my SES training, but we were shown the 'twisty' way. Can't wait to show the guys! This is one of our 'must- know' knots.

You present it so incredibly well that I no longer struggle with all those old formulas and numb fingers. Thanks a bunch!

I have seen this knot done several different ways and this one is by far the best way to do it! Thank you for this post.

Only just heard of this knot, love the way you tie it, so much easier than other versions I've seen. Thanks a lot

by far the best and easiest way to tie the essential alpine butterfly .great vid !! working in theatre , this knot is used a lot for putting tension on lines from the grid ( spot lines and grid brails !) a must know for anyone wanting to start a carreer as a tech in theatre ! i shall refer the newbies to this great vid every time i am asked about this knot . Thanks

Thank you so much, Nick, for teaching me the easy method of tying the Alpine Butterfly Knot! Good luck and good mood! Warm greetings from Ukraine! 👍🇺🇦

I'm a newbie to climbing, but not to knots. I can easily tie 20 life-savers and useful bends, hitches, etc. Never came across this method. This was BRILLIANT! In a panic (or, for that matter, any) situation, it's perfect. Using your method, I can tie this knot with my eyes closed (literally). In fact, I'd go so far as to say that everyone be able to tie it with closed eyes. Thank you!

THANK YOU SO MUCH ! I have seen arborist tie this knot several times and could not follow what was happening, so fast and easy, compared to other methods, thanks again for sharing.

Have done the twist method for decades, this loop over the hand is fantastic. Thank you.

The Alpine Butterfly is similar to an inline Figure-8, but easier to untie. When you're climbing on a glacier, it's a quick way to create a loop in the safety line to clip into. I use it frequently as part of the Trucker's Hitch (TH) --which forms a block and tackle configuration with 3 times more tension. The TH is useful for securing loads from sliding around in the back of the pickup or strapping down a canoe to a roof rack --so tight it snaps metal racks.

I've made many rifle sling attachments this way. Perfect knot for the application.

Thanks for putting this out there. I like easy to remember methods!

I know you created this 7 years ago, but damn, you just blew my mind! Thank you!

Thank you so much! I need to learn this for our State Emergency Service here in Aus & was struggling with the book instructions, this is so much easier!

Easiest way to tie this knot, by far. Thank you from a firefighter about to take a technical rescue course this weekend.

Struggling with the twist method as my lines always seem to like to running next to eachother- this method is my adopted favourite, thanks so much!

best demo yet. thank you

Thank You! I have tried several methods on KZfaq and this by far makes the most sense. Thanks again

Great Illustration! Easy to see with the orange cord, and perfect lighting.

My dad taught me how to tie a bowline and a half hitch. He tried to teach me that one, I guess I wasn't interested but I'm older now . I've been looking in the trucker's Hitch and all . that and when I saw this video that's exactly how he tied it I remember all he did was wrapped around his hand and that was it . I watched the other videos on the butterfly this is by far the best one for me .the easiest one the quickest one.

Messed half the night with Butterfly videos. Watched this video and the first time using the hand wrap method and it was perfect. Works well with 2 finger wrap for smaller cord to keep the loop smaller. Thanks.

Wow wow wow, I did (k)not know this technique! I've been tying it with the two-twist method literally all my life after being taught in scouts when I was about 7-8, love the knot and use it all the time, can't believe I didn't know this.

It maybe called an Alpine knot, but it's a very useful knot for mariners, and others as well. Thanks for making it so easy to do.

Best instructions of the butterfly knot by far! Thanks.

Perfecto! I appreciate that the whole video was short and to the point, yet the instructions were appropriately slow enough to follow. An excellent production that others should study for their videos. Thanks.

I came to this video to do a refresher on the 2nd method you showed. Now I'm refreshed on the second method and learned the first. Thanks so much. :)

Thank you so much. Other videos I've been sitting here 30 minutes getting frustrated and yours was the "one more time ONLY and then I'm done". The very first time I tried with your easy to see and simple method and I got it!!!!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩 Thank you so very much!!!!

Hands down the best video on tying this knot, thank you!

Holy smokes! Brilliant. Well conceived and brilliantly explained.

Love videos that are to the point. Thank you, sir. Fantastic!

The best and easiest way I have scene on You tube tonight trying to do this knot. Now I can do it after watching your video in just under a minute....Thank you..

when I was a firefighter, we used this for tech rescues and moving tools up and down the ladder. This method works really well when you're wearing thicker gloves.

Thank you, this was the sixth video I've watched and was the only one that helped me learn how to tie this knot again after not tying one for over ten years. Nice job and great video. This is also the way I was taught years ago.

Ahhhh simplicity. The ultimate form of sophistication. Cracking video mate.

Perfect. Been struggling last night with the alpine butterfly. So was doing the farmhand instead. I just saw ur vid. Thanks heaps, very clear and perfect method! Cheers from Australia just subbed.nice work 🙂👍👍👍

Wow, I've always used the twist and tuck method. I will definitely give this a go. Thanks

Best 'How to' video for this knot out there :) Thanks for sharing. ATB Mac

Fantastic, nice and easy. Much better method than what may climbing techniques book taught me, and easy to remember.

OK, this was really cool. After messing with other methods and frozen fingers, I have to say that this is really one of the easiest versions. The hardest part is digging that middle wrap out with gloves, but two steps later and I'm clipped in. NICE

I have found that this method is far easier than any other method. Thank you.

MAny approaches many perspectives, Bravo on a really nice demonstration

You made it easy. I can't do knots [and will forget this by tomorrow, lol] but was able to make a series of these off one view of 20 seconds of your vid. Thanks!

I think that's a great technique for tying the butterfly knot, Thank you ! 👍😊

Easily the best method of tying this knot. Great explanation

Great video! Makes that knot easy to remember , for me anyway.. thank you for sharing!!

I was taught this when I did a working at height course a few years back. Saw a different way of tying it recently, I recognised the knot and remembered this method but I'd never seen the other way before.

LOVE THAT KNOT 🤩!!! So simple but effective 👍!!!

Now doing this knot makes more sense! Lol I’ve been trying the other way but couldn’t find a vid that showed it slow enough to follow. Thank you!!

Thanks for sharing this. Clear and simple method!

Best illustration of this knot on KZfaq. Thank you 😊

Thanks that is the best instructional video I have seen of the alpine butterfly knot .

This is a very helpful video. The way it is explain makes it very simple to learn this technique. Thanks for such helpful video!

Thanks Nick. Your vid keeps on teaching and teaching.

thank you. this was the most simple method and perfectly straight forward video .

Super knot, done super easy! Thanks for posting

I have always used the twist method. I like this way for more! Thanks!

Awesome way to tye the butterfly knot, easiest way I've seen yet! In fact the other instructionals left me with something other than the proper knot.

EXCELLENT VIDEO: especially the PACE...& repetition. THANK YOU. May try incorporating into fly fishing nymphs !!!

That was the easiest method yet. Thank you.

Thanks Nick helped me build my tree house like a true alpine legend

The easiest way to tie an alpine butterfly knot.. even under stress it can be done.. great instructional video . Tnx a mil..

That's the technique I know and use for securing my yacht's furling headsail once the sheets have been removed, great knot for a purchase pulley.

it's a good knot for a loop in a trucker's hitch (creating mechanical advantage) or, possibly, for a series of loops on a line you're hanging items from. Also, it's my understanding you can use it to take a section out of your line, say if it were frayed or damaged, but you don't want that damage to undermine the strength of the rope.

Awesome stuff, my favourite way !!!

thank you, a friend showed me this years ago, I kept the knot but couldn't work out how to do it, now I know

This worked for me the best. Fast simple and easy to remember.

Fantastic method, thank you for sharing! 👍👍

This is such a superior method!! Easier to learn by far

The easiest way to tie the alpine butterfly, and well explained. Thumbs up.

Great video, I reference this when I have to tie one or teach people how to tie one. Pull it! Push it! Lay it! Drop it! Bop it! Twist it! Turn it!

Seems like it's easier to control the size of the loop with the twist method. Thanks for showing it.

Thanks so much for sharing this awesome technique.

Thank you very much. I use the double twist method well I used to until I saw this video lol. Anyway with the double twist the rope does funny things sometimes And I often end up having to retie the alpine several times until it goes right. This is much simpler

This was very helpful!! Thank you , I love this method

Awesome - finally a great and easy way to tie this knot ...cheers

Saw it done (3 times), did it, ready to teach it. Thank you.

This helped me too. Thank you Nick!

Thanks a lot!!! Nice and easy way to learn this knot.

Thanks heaps.. Such a simple way to remember, had it in seconds..

I really enjoy these videos. It would help if you would give some practical ways to use specific knots and why one is better than another.

Very good explanation ! Tks from Brazil ...

this is the most simple way to do it and, therefore, the most easy to remember

There's also a video somewhere of this method but laying the wraps over the hand in an "/ I \" format such that it looks like "XI" on your hand. It places the 'loop' wrap at the end, ready for tucking.

I've known the alpine butterfly for many years. I'm sure I read about it in a book (the dark ages). I could always tie this with the "looping" method as you first demonstrated, but I could never follow the diagrams for this "on the hand" method. Thank you! I don't know if this is as important a difference as the "learning" method of tying the bowline vs. the proper method, but it seems like it might be. Now for the Zeppelin loop…

I'd like to say that I've read a book about this knot, i watched a different video on how to tie this knot and I always messed it up. After watching this video I got it done my first try. Thanks

WOW, that’s so much easier! Thank you for posting.

Great vid, thanks for posting!

It's a good method and your a good teacher !

Excellent video!

Perfect method, first time!! Thanks

so easy to learn. Only needed to watch it once. Thanks