Karabiners and Connectors

The Edelrid Pure Screw is a lightweight, robust screwgate karabiner designed for reliable all-round use in climbing, mountaineering, and rope access. Its offset D-shape and keylock nose ensure smooth clipping and unclipping without snagging, while the large rope contact area reduces wear on both rope and hardware. With a strong H-profile construction and high open-gate strength, this compact karabiner delivers safety, versatility, and durability in one streamlined design.

The OCUN Kestrel is a fully rated, ultralight wire gate karabiner weighing just 25g, making it ideal for trad and alpine climbing where minimal weight is critical. Its wire gate prevents gate flutter and freezing, while its optimized design delivers 23 kN of major axis strength in a compact profile. Perfect for racking, slings, or emergency use, the Kestrel is certified to UIAA and EN standards and comes in colours matching cam sizes for seamless gear organization.

The OCUN Falcon is the largest D-shaped karabiner in their collection. The Falcon is a karabiner of usual dimensions suitable for equipping climbing routes. It's popular especially amongst climbers who prefer the traditional routes and sandstone climbing. This karabiner is suitable for those who prefer maximum strength and reliability to low weight.

The DMM Ultra O is a karabiner with symmetrical rope baskets, this makes it ideal for assisted breaking devices, pulleys, swivels and shackles. Oval karabiners allow pulleys to sit in an equalised position, the symmetrical shape also lessens the chance of shifting under load and potentially dislodging a marginal gear placement. The Ultra O is the perfect climbing aid!

The DMM Shadow HMS is a large yet lightweight HMS karabiner, designed for efficient belaying, rigging, and ropework. With a wide, deep basket that easily holds up to three clove hitches (<9.5mm rope) and a short gate for maximum opening, it delivers excellent handling and strength in a compact form. Available in Screwgate and multiple locking gate options, it’s an essential choice for climbers and professionals seeking high performance with low weight.

The DMM Shadow Locking karabiner is a lightweight, high-strength connector designed for climbing, mountaineering, and rope access. Its Offset D-shape directs loads to the spine while the Keylock nose ensures snag-free clipping and smooth operation. Weighing just 50g with I-Beam construction, it balances strength and portability for personal lockers, belay setups, and rigging systems. Available in Screwgate, Kwiklock, Locksafe, and ANSI-rated variants, the Shadow delivers reliability, ergonomics, and versatility for a wide range of applications.

The DMM Shadow Colour 3 Pack includes three lightweight, colour-coded locking carabiners designed for quick identification and reliable performance. With a 50g I-Beam construction, the Shadows balance strength and weight perfectly for trad, sport, or winter climbing. The Offset D shape and wide gate opening make them easy to handle, even with gloves, while the Keylock nose prevents snagging on gear and ropes. A versatile personal locker pack for climbers who want efficiency, safety, and a splash of colour on their rack.

A revolution in more ways than one! The DMM Revolver wire gated karabiner features a small wheel in the rope location groove. The result is a reduction in rope drag of up to 30%, which can, in effect, reduce the weight of your rope. A Revolver on your rack lets you reduce rope drag and make efficient mechanical advantage systems without the need for additional devices.

The DMM Revolver is certified for use as both a karabiner and a pulley. It is the same as DMM's standard Revolver karabiner, but it features a locking gate which provides extra security. There is a small wheel in the rope location groove to reduce rope drag, allowing the rope to run more efficiently through the karabiner. The Revolver is also highly useful for creating lightweight hauling systems. If you need to haul kit, a partner, or perform crevasse rescue, the pulley wheel increases the efficiency and converting more of your energy into movement.

The DMM Phantom HMS is an ultra-compact and lightweight belay karabiner that doesn’t compromise on strength. With a true HMS shape, it’s perfect for belaying with an Italian hitch or managing multiple clove hitches. Its extra-short gate and slim nose maximise internal space and make clipping to slings and textiles easy. Rope-friendly and available with Screwgate, Kwiklock, or Locksafe options, the Phantom HMS is a versatile essential for climbers and riggers.

The DMM Phantom is their ultimate trad and alpine screwgate Karabiner, and when you hold those 42 grams you will understand why! They claim they could have made it even lighter, but didn't want to compromise the handling or strength. As you can see from the specification below the strength is still impressive and the gate opening reasonable for a small D shaped karabiner.

The DMM PerfectO Straight Gate is a true oval, compact karabiner that maintains the ease of use (even one-handed). Its shape provides effective centring of loads and the fully rounded rope bearing areas increase carabiner and rope longevity.

The DMM PerfectO is a compact true oval connector that minimises the eye-to-eye length whilst maintaining usability and easy one-handed use. Their shape provides effective centring of loads and the fully rounded rope bearing areas increase carabiner and rope longevity.

The DMM 30kN Boa HMS Keylock is the heavier duty version of the 25kN Boa, it is hot forged from 14mm bar which gives it the 30kN major axis rescue that's required for rescue loads. Its ergonomics ensure that it is still easily operated whilst wearing gloves and the curved basket copes with even the busiest rigging set ups, allowing devices to settle comfortably.

The Beal Orient Express is a high performing unidirectional locking karabiner, expertly designed for climbers who prioritize safety and reliability. Engineered for use with belay devices, it features an innovative internal snap gate that securely clips onto your harness belay loop. This smart design prevents the karabiner from rotating or flipping over, ensuring it stays perfectly aligned during use. By maintaining the correct orientation, the Beal Orient Express significantly reduces the risk of cross-loading, keeping your belay system strong and secure.

The Beal Be Lock is a large HMS carabiner designed for easy use with double (halves and twins) rope systems. The large surface area provides easy control in all weather. The Be Lock is particularly suitable for HMS belays and double rope manoeuvres, such as capstan or half-capstan.

The Beal Be Safe is a HMS screwlock karabiner that's perfect for use with belay devices as it can accommodate two ropes at once, without the risk of them becoming overlapped in the event of a fall. The reception cradle ensures that the two ropes slide together and does not generate friction on the sides of the carabiner when the rope is braked. This is true whether rappelling or stopping a fall.

The DMM Spectre is an all-round carabiner for versatility and can be used across trad, sport, or winter climbing. They are full sized for ease of handling, while I-Beam construction and wire gates keep weight low. If you want one type of carabiner to cover all your climbing needs, you need an all-rounder. Wire gates are the lightest gate type available, and resist freezing shut in cold conditions. They are crucial in reducing the weight of your rack, and are ideal for trad, winter, and alpine climbing.

The Zodiac 12mm Keylock is DMM's flagship rigging karabiner. It's extremely strong and therefore suited to heavy use situations like heavy duty rigging, rescue loads and group instruction, where toughness and strength are key. The clean nose gate uses DMM's patented Taperlock design and their toughest barrel to give very strong gate open and side face strengths.

The Petzl Attache is a lightweight and compact, pear-shaped karabiner with as screw gate opening. It has multiple uses for belaying, such as connecting a belay system to a harness and belaying with a Munter hitch. It has a H-cross section to reduce weight, as well as the keylock system to avoid the karabiner snagging during manoeuvres.

The OCUN Condor HMS is a large karabiner that responds to the new trends of safety. Equipped with an independent internal wire gate that prevents it from rotating and guards against unwanted release from a belay loop, this karabiner ensures safe belaying and rappelling. The internal gate locks in the right direction and therefore prevents upward release. This means that the belayer can focus their full attention on the climber. The Condor brings a new level of safety into belaying.

The Petzl Sm'D represents a D-shaped carabiner with a locking mechanism, known for its lightweight and compact design. It finds utility across various scenarios, offering ease of handling even with gloves, and comes in two different locking system variations.

The Petzl Vulcan D is a high grade, D shaped karabiner for professional work. Designed for use in difficult environments, this karabiner is made from high quality steel and is ideal for setting multiple anchors.

The Petzl Rollclip Z is a carabiner with an integrated pulley for reducing friction and redirecting rope. The Z specific model has a gate which opens on the non-pulley side of the carabiner, to allow for easier installation onto anchors and other devices.

The Petzl Rollclip A is a carabiner with an integrated pulley to reduce friction and redirect the rope. With the A version of the Rollclip the gate opening is on the pulley side to facilitate installation of the rope when the pulley is fixed to the anchor or device.

The Oxan is Petzl's high quality steel oval karabiner with a keylock gate closure, this is the steel karabiner of choice for demanding conditions. Petzl’s Keylock means less snagging, while the red indicator on the screw lock provides a visual warning if the gate is not locked.

The Petzl Eashook Open carabiner has a gated attachment point for lanyards or slings, making it possible to reuse the connector when the lanyard is damaged.

The Semi circular or half moon Maillon Rapide is ideal for securing caving harnesses, it is commonly used for the junction of 2 connecting points on a harness. Screw links are a lot more secure than karabiners so are essential if there's a possibility that the connector may be cross-loaded.

The DMM Revolver Rig is a connector with an integrated pulley sheave. Featuring a high efficiency roller bearing sheave(s), a threaded removable captive bar and a full strength textile friendly basket.

The DMM Captive Eye ensures that in real life situations the connector will never be cross loaded through misalignment. Whatever the captive eye is stitched or connected to it can move freely thanks to the circular hole. The hole can also accommodate a second connector should the need for a rescue point arise.

The DMM 12mm Offset D is a locking steel karabiner that is ideal for use in commercial environments, such as work positioning or in outdoor adventure parks and education centres. An Offset D connector takes the spinal loading strength of a D-shaped back but extends the basket at one end to maximize gate opening and overall size without compromising ergonomics and weight. Cold forged from 12mm bar, the strengths achieved in testing exceed 45kN and it is first choice in applications requiring stronger connectors in their systems.

The DMM 12mm Klettersteig is a steel carabiner that offers high levels of strength whilst combining a large gate opening so its easy to clip on steel cables for use on a Via Ferrata. The Klettersteig shape takes the strength and volume increases of an Offset D and then extends them even further to give a high volume, super-strong connector. The Klettersteig’s wide gate opening makes it particularly suitable for clipping oversized items, or simply allows ease of use in more normal situations.