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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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Sports; Climbing

The simultaneous use of two widely spaced footholds. Climbing using two faces that are at an angle less than 180° to each other.

single rope technique (SRT)
Sports; Climbing

The use of a single rope where one or both ends of the rope are attached to fixed anchor points.

pinch hold
Sports; Climbing

This is a hold where you must pinch it to hold on. They come in various sizes.

face climbing
Sports; Climbing

To ascend a vertical rock face using finger holds, edges and smears, i.e. not crack climbing.

crack climbing
Sports; Climbing

To ascend on a rock face by wedging body parts into cracks, i.e. not face climbing. See jamming and chimney.

honed
Sports; Climbing

To be in peak mental and physical fitness for climbing.

top rope
Sports; Climbing

To belay from a fixed anchor point above the climb. Top-roping requires easy access to the top of the climb, by means of a footpath or scrambling.

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