chipping Improving a climbing hold by chipping the rock - is considered unethical and poor practice in climbing. chimney A rock cleft with mostly parallel vertical sides, large enough to fit the climber's body. chicken wing A crack climbing technique where a hand is placed on one side of the crack and the shoulder on the other. Knob or horn of rock narrowed at the base. bouldering A type of climbing on large boulders less than 20 feet (6.1 m) high with only crash pads and spotting for protection. bosun's chair A type of larger harness to give a climber relief from bearing a constant load via their climbing harness. bomb-proofĪ highly secure anchor, or a particularly solid handhold or foothold. bolt runner A term to describe a bolt that has no bolt hanger will require a rivet hanger to be used by a climber. before the bolt is screwed in) into which quickdraws can be clipped. A piece of metal that is pre-attached to a bolt (i.e. bolt ladder Sequence of bolts that are so close together, they can be used by aid climbers as a ladder. bolt chopping The deliberate removal of bolts from a climb happens on traditional climbing routes (e.g. bolt A point of protection permanently installed in a hole drilled into the rock, to which a metal bolt hanger is attached, with a hole to attach a carabiner or a quickdraw used in sport climbing and in competition climbing. American death triangleĪ large block of rock or ice that is used as an anchor to construct a belay. alpine style Carrying all your own gear (even for multi-day climbs) also called "light-weight" climbing opposite of expedition style. (and even much earlier) common to alpine climbing to avoid afternoon rockfalls and melting snow on the route, or to get firmer ice on the glacier travel to and from the route. alpine start Starting a climb very early in the morning, generally before 5:00 a.m. alpine knee An awkward climbing technique where the knee is placed on the hold rather than the foot. Part of the alpine climbing system for grading the technical difficulty of alpine climbing routes, which goes: F ("facile/easy"), PD ("peu difficile/little difficult"), AD ("assez difficile/fairly hard"), D ("difficile/difficult"), TD ("tres difficile/very hard"), and ED ("extremement difficile/extremely difficult") ED then goes ED1, ED2, ED3. alpine climbing A form of mountaineering that includes ice climbing, dry-tooling and rock climbing. aid climbing Type of rock climbing where artificial devices are used to make upward progress (and not just for protection) opposite of free climbing. A thin blade mounted perpendicular to the handle on an ice axe is used for chopping footholds.
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