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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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pied à plat
Sports; Climbing
A crampon technique in the French style: to climb on high-angle ice with feet flat on the ice (as opposed to front-pointing).
zipper fall
Sports; Climbing
A fall in which each piece of protection fails in turn. In some cases when the rope comes taut during a fall, the protection can fail from the bottom up, especially if the first piece was not placed ...
stick clip
Sports; Climbing
A long stick on the end of which a climber can affix a quickdraw. It allows the climber to clip a quickdraw to the first bolt on a sport climb while still standing on the ground. This is especially ...
dulfersitz
Sports; Climbing
A method of rappelling, without mechanical tools, where the uphill rope is straddled by the climber then looped around a hip, across the chest, over the opposite (weak) shoulder, and held with the ...
