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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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rp

Sports; Climbing

A small nut, named after Rowland Pauligk. Not certified for sale in Europe.

webbing

Sports; Climbing

Hollow and flat nylon strip, mainly used to make slings.

dry-tooling

Sports; Climbing

Using tools for ice climbing like crampons and ice axes on rock.

cleaning tool

Sports; Climbing

A device for removing jammed equipment, especially nuts, from a route. Also known as a nut key.

redpoint

Sports; Climbing

To successfully lead the climb after an earlier unsuccessful attempt. Do without falling or staying on the rope (hangdogging) also see clean and pinkpoint.

Mount Everest

Sports; Climbing

Mount Everest (Tibetan: ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ; Chinese: 珠穆朗玛峰; Nepali: सगरमाथा) is the highest mountain in the world and the 8.848 meters. The area is located in the Himalayas, exactly on the Mahalangur ...

POF

Sports; Climbing

An alternative to pine resin made of limestone. Fontainebleau discouraged (or actively forbidden) but everywhere else in the popular, since it is a thick, shiny resin layer deposits of rock and ...

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