Climbing

Climbing

A sport to climb up mountains (usually with steep cliffs) or walls with one's hands and feet.

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Climbing

Also known as French climbing, or French freeing, it is the use of aid climbing techniques to bypass a section due to climbing difficulty, rock conditions, etc. ; typically for only a short section ...

Beta

Sports; Climbing

Advice on how to successfully complete (or protect) a particular climbing route, boulder problem, or crux sequence. Some climbers believe that beta 'taints' an ascent.

Plunge step

Sports; Climbing

An aggressive step pattern for descending on hard or steep angle snow.

Z-pulley

Sports; Climbing

Also Z-system. A particular configuration of rope, anchors, and pulleys typically used to extricate a climber after falling into a crevasse.

Klemheist knot

Sports; Climbing

An alternative to the Prusik knot, useful when the climber is short of cord but has plenty of webbing.

Alpine cock ring (ACR)

Sports; Climbing

An anchor method similar to a cordelette but that is dynamically equalizing. It employs a cord and a rappel ring.

Double rope technique (DRT)

Sports; Climbing

For alpine and rock climbers this term implies the use of two separate ropes. For tree climbers this term is ambiguous but is usually interpreted as a synonym for Doubled Rope Technique.