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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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Moat
Sports; Climbing

A crevasse that forms where the glacier pulls away from a rock formation.

Friend
Sports; Climbing

A name brand of a type of spring loaded camming device (SLCD), sometimes used to refer to any type of spring loaded camming device.

Ice axe
Sports; Climbing

A handy tool for safety and balance, having a pick/adze head and a spike at the opposite end of a shaft.

Swami belt
Sports; Climbing

A kind of proto- climbing harness consisting of a long length of tubular webbing wrapped several times around the climbers body and secured with a water knot. Largely eschewed today in favour of ...

Harness
Sports; Climbing

A sewn nylon webbing device worn around the waist and thighs that is designed to allow a person to safely hang suspended in the air.

Pied en canard
Sports; Climbing

A crampon technique in the French style: to walk on moderate-angle ice with toes pointed outward; literally, "duck footed".

Sticht plate
Sports; Climbing

A belay device consisting of a flat plate with a pair of slots. Named after the inventor Franz Sticht.

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