Climbing

Climbing

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

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Climbing

Also known as French climbing, or French freeing, it is the use of aid climbing techniques to bypass a section due to climbing difficulty, rock conditions, etc. ; typically for only a short section ...

Z-pulley

Sports; Climbing

Also Z-system. A particular configuration of rope, anchors, and pulleys typically used to extricate a climber after falling into a crevasse.

plunge step

Sports; Climbing

An aggressive step pattern for descending on hard or steep angle snow.

pof

Sports; Climbing

An alternative to chalk made from pine resin. Popular in Fontainebleau but discouraged (or actively forbidden) everywhere else since it deposits a thick, shiny resin layer on the rock and friction ...

klemheist knot

Sports; Climbing

An alternative to the Prusik knot, useful when the climber is short of cord but has plenty of webbing.

alpine cock ring (ACR)

Sports; Climbing

An anchor method similar to a cordelette but that is dynamically equalizing. It employs a cord and a rappel ring.

American death triangle

Sports; Climbing

An anchor which is created by connecting a closed loop of cord or webbing between two points of protection, and then suspending the rope from a carabiner clipped to only one strand of said anchor. ...