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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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V-thread
Sports; Climbing

A type of abseiling point used especially in winter and ice climbing. Also called abalakov thread.

abalakov thread
Sports; Climbing

A type of abseiling point used especially in winter and ice climbing. Also called as V-thread.

scrambling
Sports; Climbing

A type of climbing somewhere between hiking and graded rock climbing.

sprag
Sports; Climbing

A type of hand position where the fingers and thumb are opposed.

fist jam
Sports; Climbing

A type of jam using the hand. See climbing technique.

pring-loaded camming device (SLCD)
Sports; Climbing

A type of protection device. These are better known by the term cam.

eight-thousander
Sports; Climbing

A mountain whose elevation exceeds 8,000 metres above sea level.

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