USA Climbing is the national governing body of the sport of competition climbing in the United States. As a 501(c)3 non-profit, they promote Sport Climbing...
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Speed climbing is a climbing discipline in which speed is the ultimate goal. Speed climbing is done on rocks, walls and poles and is only recommended...
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Competition climbing is a form of regulated rock climbing competition held indoors on purpose-built artificial climbing walls (earlier versions were held...
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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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Glossary of climbing terms relates to rock climbing (including aid climbing, lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing), mountaineering, and...
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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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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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Free climbing is a form of rock climbing in which the climber can only use climbing equipment for climbing protection, but not as an aid to help in their...
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consistently risen in all forms of climbing, helped by improvements in climbing technique and equipment. In free climbing (i.e. climbing rock routes with no aid)...
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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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history of rock climbing, the three main sub-disciplines—bouldering, single-pitch climbing, and big wall (and multi-pitch) climbing—can trace their origins...
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Nathaniel Coleman (category Olympic silver medalists for the United States in sport climbing)
won the 2020 USA Climbing Bouldering Open National Championships. Coleman also finished 4th overall in bouldering at the 2015 IFSC Climbing World Cup, winning...
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Ashima Shiraishi (section Climbing World Championships)
Shiraishi Climbs First V15". Climbing Magazine. Retrieved October 10, 2017. "Deeper Look at 13-Year-Old Mishka Ishi's Ascent of Byaku-Dou". Climbing Magazine...
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Magnus Midtbø (category World Games medalists in sport climbing)
competition climbing in 2017. Midtbø started climbing in 2000 at 11 years of age after his mother enrolled him in a class. After just one year of climbing, he...
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Margo Hayes (section Climbing career)
lead climbing events at the IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in Guangzhou (China). In 2017, she became the first woman in history to climb a 9a+ (5...
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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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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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techniques (free climbing, self-belayed climbing with a doubled-rope technique, single-rope technique, and lead climbing) are used to climb trees depending...
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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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Emma Hunt (category World Games medalists in sport climbing)
specializes in competition speed climbing, and holds the American women's speed record with 6.301 seconds, set at the USA Climbing North American Cup in Salt...
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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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Natalia Grossman (category IFSC Climbing World Championships medalists)
competition climbing. She represents the United States at IFSC Climbing World Cup in competition bouldering and competition lead climbing. She won gold...
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Mountaineering (redirect from Mountain climbing)
traditional outdoor climbing, skiing, and traversing via ferratas that have become sports in their own right. Indoor climbing, sport climbing, and bouldering...
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Competition climbing made its Olympic debut at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. It is governed by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC)...
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Climbing equipment refers to a broad range of manufactured gear that is used in the activity or sport of climbing. Notable groups include: Alpine climbing...
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Bouldering (redirect from Highball (climbing))
Robinson, Victoria (2013). Rock Climbing. ABC-CLIO. pp. 80–81. ISBN 9780313378621. "Rock climbing in Europe". Climb Europe. 2013. Archived from the original...
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Annie Sanders (category Climbing biography stubs)
climbing but who also does outdoor sport climbing, and bouldering, and is based in Fort Worth, Texas. In November 2022, Sanders won the USA Climbing National...
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Jesse Grupper (category IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists)
in competition climbing. In 2022, Grupper came in third overall in the 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup in the competition lead climbing discipline. He earned...
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rock-climbing, a first free ascent (FFA) is the first redpoint, onsight or flash of a single-pitch, multi-pitch (or big wall), or boulder climbing route...
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Colin Duffy (climber) (category IFSC Climbing World Championships medalists)
competition climbing. At age 17, he became the youngest climber to qualify to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. Duffy started climbing at age...
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