Climbing

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).

Haul bag

Sports; Climbing

A large and often unwieldy bag into which supplies and climbing equipment may be thrown.

Hexcentric

Sports; Climbing

A protective device. It is an eccentric hexagonal nut attached to a wire loop. The nut is inserted into a crack and it holds through counter-pressure. Often just termed Hex.

Whipper

Sports; Climbing

A lead fall from above and to the side of the last clip, whipping oneself downwards and in an arc. Has come to be the term for any fall beyond the last placed or clipped piece of protection.