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Climbing

A sport to climb up mountains (usually with steep cliffs) or walls with one's hands and feet.

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Climbing

hand traverse
Sports; Climbing

Traversing without any definitive footholds, i.e. smearing or heelhooking.

dead ball
Sports; Climbing

Type of High Ball boulder, where one can possibly die when falling from above.

fall
Sports; Climbing

Undesirable downward motion. Hopefully stopped by a rope, otherwise see mountain rescue. A free-solo belay, the quickest way to reach the ground.

clawing
Sports; Climbing

Use of front points of crampons, ice axe pick and ice hammer pick to climb a slope.

problem
Sports; Climbing

Used in bouldering, the path that a climber takes in order to complete the climb. Same as route in roped climbing.

quickdraw
Sports; Climbing

Used to attach a freely running rope to anchors or chocks. Sometimes called "quickies" or just "draws. "

cramponing
Sports; Climbing

Using crampons to ascend or descend on ice, preferably with maximum number of points of the crampon into the ice for weight distribution. Accidentally piercing something with a crampon spike.

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