standardization of grades worldwide. Over the years, grades have consistently risen in all forms of climbing, helped by improvements in climbing technique and...
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set new grade milestones are important events in rock climbing history, and are listed below. While sport climbing has dominated absolute-grade milestones...
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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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Traditional climbing (or trad climbing) is a type of free climbing in rock climbing where the lead climber places the protection equipment while ascending...
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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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1970s, ice climbing developed as a standalone skill from alpine climbing (where ice climbing skills are used on ice and snow). Ice climbing grades peak at...
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became the first rock climb in the world to have a proposed climbing grade of 9c (5.15d), and it is an important route in rock climbing history. To complete...
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Indo-European Grade, or degree, one of the comparative forms of an adjective Grade (climbing), a climber's assessment of the difficulty and danger of climbing a hill...
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Mixed climbing is a climbing discipline used on routes that do not have enough ice to be pure ice climbs, but are also not dry enough to be pure rock climbs...
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Free solo climbing, or free soloing, is a form of rock climbing where the climbers (or free soloists) climb solo (or alone) without ropes or other protective...
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Alpine climbing (German: Alpinklettern) is a type of mountaineering that involves using any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock...
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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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In rock climbing, redpointing means to free-climb a climbing route from the ground to the top while lead climbing, after having practiced the route (either...
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related to Climbing in Céüse. History of rock climbing List of first ascents (sport climbing) Silence, first climb in the world with a potential grade of 9c (5...
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Competitions in the sport of climbing, governed by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), have been held at two editions of the Summer...
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first-ever British E11-graded climbing route, and at the international grades of 5.14c (8c+), was a new grade milestone in traditional climbing making it the "world's...
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Beta is a climbing term that designates information about how to ascend a climbing route, and the specific climbing techniques required—and how to apply...
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in the 2017 climbing film, The Lappnor Project. Climbing awarded Hukkataival a Golden Piton [fr] in 2016 for having the courage to grade it at 9A (V17)...
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Aid climbing is a form of rock climbing that uses mechanical devices and equipment, such as aiders (or ladders), for upward momentum. Aid climbing is different...
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Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations or indoor climbing walls. The goal is to reach the summit...
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Free climbing is a form of rock climbing in which the climber can only use climbing equipment for climbing protection but not as an artificial aid to...
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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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Lead climbing (or leading) is a technique in rock climbing where the lead climber clips their rope to the climbing protection as they ascend a pitch of...
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over 1500 m. La Route des Crêtes, Cassis, France A trolleybus climbing an 18% grade in Seattle Ascent of German Bundesstraße 10 A car parked on Baldwin...
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Jonathan Siegrist (section Climbing career)
2014, aged 28, Siegrist climbed his first 9a+ (5.15a) graded route when he redpointed Chris Sharma's famous 2001 sport climbing route, Realization/Biographie...
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Sébastien Bouin (section Climbing career)
documentary series on the history of extreme sport climbing in France. Seb Bouin started sport climbing at 11 with his mother Claire. He did his first 8a...
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First ascent (redirect from Freeing (climbing))
(but not aid), which was called sport climbing. Sport climbing has since set all new grade milestones in rock climbing. The "redpoint" became the accepted...
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Big wall climbing is a form of rock climbing that takes place on long multi-pitch routes (of at least 6–10 pitches or 300–500 metres) that normally require...
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Multi-pitch climbing is a type of climbing that typically takes place on routes that are more than a single rope length (circa 50 to 70 metres) in height...
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Climbing guidebooks are used by mountaineers, alpinists, ice climbers, and rock climbers to locate, grade, and navigate climbing routes on mountains, climbing...
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