Alpinist.com Also in This Style The Trango Agility 9.1mm Rope: Red Flags are a good thing Mike Lewis MSRP: $354.95 (70m dry treated) "Hey, what's with the ends of your rope being red?" they ask. My reply: "I work for Alpinist magazine, and I'm doing a review on this new rope by Trango that's not out on the market yet. The red keeps you from rapping off the end of the rope or from lowering someone off the end." They respond: "Duh! That's brilliant. I can't believe rope companies haven't been doing this already. It looks like it would also make it easy to find the ends of your rope in your rope bag, too." Over the past three months, I have had this exact conversation, or close relatives, at least 20 times. Every single day I went climbing, multiple people asked about my bright yellow rope with red ends and made positive comments in response.