A climbing shoe is a specialized type of footwear designed for rock climbing. Typical climbing shoes have a tight fit, an asymmetrical downturn, and a...
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Glossary of climbing terms relates to rock climbing (including aid climbing, lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing), mountaineering, and...
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Cantabrian albarcas Chopine Ciocia Clear heels Cleats Climbing shoe Clog British clog Turkish clogs Court shoe (British English), pump (American English), or...
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Bouldering (redirect from Highball (climbing))
little in terms of equipment: at minimum, climbing shoes; at maximum, a chalk bag, chalk, a brush, and climbing shoes. Bouldering problems are assigned numerical...
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ice. Skate shoes have also been designed to provide a comfortable, flexible and durable shoe for the sport of skateboarding. Climbing shoes are rubber-soled...
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Rock-climbing equipment varies with the specific type of climbing that is undertaken. Bouldering needs the least equipment outside of climbing shoes, climbing...
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Rock climbing is a climbing sports discipline that involves ascending routes consisting of natural rock in an outdoor environment, or on artificial resin...
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Footwear (redirect from Flats (shoe))
Islands Slippers Closed slippers Open slippers Ballet shoes Boat shoes High-heeled footwear Climbing shoes Clogs Football boots Sabaton Safety footwear Sailing...
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their climbing shoes and their climbing chalk. Free soloing is the most dangerous form of climbing, and, unlike bouldering, free soloists climb above...
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Approach shoes are hybrid footwear that have some characteristics in common with hiking boots, and others with rock-climbing shoes. Like a shoe or boot...
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history of rock climbing, the three main sub-disciplines – bouldering, single-pitch climbing, and big wall (and multi-pitch) climbing – can trace their...
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Alain Robert (section Notable climbs)
carries out free solo climbs of skyscrapers using no climbing equipment except for a small bag of chalk and a pair of climbing shoes. Because authorities...
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John Bachar (section Climbing career)
soloing, he ultimately died during a free solo climb. A fitness fanatic, he was the creator of the climbing training device known as the Bachar ladder. Bachar...
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Scarpa (company) (category Shoe companies of Italy)
Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh. The company specialises in hiking boots, climbing shoes and mountaineering boots. Grivel Scarpa Binding Wikimedia Commons has...
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La Sportiva (category Shoe brands)
collaborated with Tommy Caldwell in the development of the TC Pro climbing shoe. This was the shoe that Caldwell used while making his ascent of the Dawn Wall...
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Five Ten Footwear (category Shoe companies of the United States)
Five Ten is a German manufacturer of mountain biking, climbing, and trail hiking shoes. Originally an American brand founded in California in 1985 by Charles...
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§ Shoes Ciocie, worn by Italian peasants since the medieval period Climbing shoes, which now typically include a reinforced extension for better toeholds...
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A climbing gym is a gym dedicated to indoor climbing. Climbing gyms have climbing walls that can be used for leading, top roping, and bouldering. They...
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during indoor climbing. Most climbing gyms lend harnesses, ropes and belay devices. Some also lend climbing shoes and chalk bags. Some climbing gyms require...
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feet. Climbing, Climb or The climb may also refer to: Climbing equipment, and the related items such as: Climbing harness Climbing rope Climbing shoe Climbing...
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Alpine climbing (German: Alpinklettern) is a type of mountaineering that uses any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing, ice...
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Sport climbing (or bolted climbing) is a type of free climbing in rock climbing where the lead climber clips into pre-drilled permanent bolts for their...
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Souverain, and the famous Pierre Allain, the inventor of the smooth-sole climbing shoe (named P.A. from his initials). Before World War II, most of the areas...
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Solo climbing, or soloing, is a style of climbing in which the climber climbs a route alone, without the assistance of a belayer (or "second") or being...
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Hiking boot (redirect from Hiking shoe)
lower slopes of mountains. As they climbed higher they would exchange their boots for lighter rock climbing shoes, usually made with thin leather, felt-bottom...
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operations. Climbing is done indoors and outdoors, on natural surfaces (e.g. rock climbing and ice climbing), and on artificial surfaces (e.g. climbing walls...
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Stiletto heel (redirect from Stiletto shoe)
A stiletto heel, or just stiletto, is a shoe with a long, thin, high heel. It is named after the stiletto dagger. Stiletto heels may vary in length from...
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ECCO (redirect from Ecco Shoes)
Trademark Infringement". Footwear News. Retrieved 2022-08-28. "best climbing shoes". "From Forever 21 to FC Barcelona, a Look at adidas' History of 3-Stripe...
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The Areni-1 shoe is a 5,500-year-old leather shoe that was found in 2008 in excellent condition in the Areni-1 cave located in the Vayots Dzor province...
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Abseiling (category Climbing techniques)
StudyRockClimbing.com Drummond, Liz (August 12, 2013). "How to Simul-Rappel". Climbing. Retrieved 7 March 2016. "Backing Up An Abseil". Chockstone Climbing in...
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