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...

history of rock climbing, the three main sub-disciplines – bouldering, single-pitch climbing, and big wall (and multi-pitch) climbing – can trace their...

multi-pitch climbing — and big wall climbing — on routes of up to 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). Free-climbing can be done as free solo climbing with no climbing protection...

rock climbs, including the even longer big wall climbing that features in the Free Solo film, free soloing is performed in a wide range of climbing types...

Glossary of climbing terms relates to rock climbing (including aid climbing, lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing), mountaineering, and...

2017. "8a.nu: Global Climbing News". www.8a.nu. Ozturk, Renan (April 24, 2009). "The Borneo Dispatches". Climbing. "Borneo Big Wall". Borneobigwall.blogspot...

century with the rise of free climbing. At the same time, the Dolomites became the birthplace of modern "big wall aid climbing", where pioneers like Emilio...

American rock climber who has set records in sport climbing, traditional climbing, and in big-wall climbing. Caldwell made the first free ascents of several...

world-famous location for big wall climbing, including the disciplines of aid climbing, free climbing, and more recently for free solo climbing. The formation was...

climbs to be changed by moving the holds to new positions on the wall, has resulted in indoor climbing becoming a very popular sport. Proper climbing...

discipline, including bouldering, traditional climbing, sport climbing, multi-pitch climbing and big wall climbing. She was the first-ever female to solve an...

climbing adds the need to carry a "rack" of temporary passive and active protection devices. Multi-pitch climbing, and the related big wall climbing,...

first ascents of important new big wall climbing routes on the Trango Towers and the Paine Towers. With long-time climbing partner Kurt Albert, he revolutionized...

Climbing is done indoors and outdoors, on natural surfaces (e.g. rock climbing and ice climbing), and on artificial surfaces (e.g. climbing walls and...

The Salathé Wall is one of the original big wall climbing routes up El Capitan, a 3,000-foot (900 m) high granite monolith in Yosemite National Park....

cannot complete the climb as a single pitch. Where the number of pitches exceeds 6–10 (300–500 metres), it can become big wall climbing, or where the pitches...

focus on big wall climbing. From the mid-1990s onwards, Huber (often partnered with Thomas), began to focus almost exclusively on big wall climbing in which...

in aid climbing Big wall climbing technique as is used in big wall climbing Ice climbing technique as is used in ice climbing Mixed climbing technique...

ice climbing, and/or mixed climbing, to summit typically large routes (e.g. multi-pitch or big wall) in an alpine environment. While alpine climbing began...

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...

big wall climbing and in aid climbing is a metal spike (usually steel) that is driven into a crack or seam in the climbing surface using a climbing hammer...

extremely high-risk activity (e.g. solo ice climbing, or solo big wall climbing). The use of the term "solo climbing" is generally separate from the action...

and Italian alpinist Walter Bonatti. Rope-solo climbing techniques have also been used on big wall climbing routes by climbers such as German Alexander Huber...

such as ice climbing, mixed climbing, rock climbing, sport climbing, big wall climbing, traditional climbing, aid climbing and bouldering. Bozorgi had...

Nose is a big wall climbing route up El Capitan. Once considered impossible to climb, El Capitan is now the standard for big wall climbing. It is recognized...

multi-pitch climbing (including big wall climbing), rope solo climbing, sport climbing, traditional climbing and top rope climbing. Via Ferrata equipment as...

American rock climber known for big wall climbing first ascents in Yosemite Valley. He was also a photographer and climbing equipment manufacturer. Frost...

May 2023. Ogden, Jared (2005). "Chapter 2: Big Wall Climbing Procedures, Grades & Ratings". Big Wall Climbing: Elite Technique (1st ed.). Mountaineers Books...

Examples of simul-climbing Simul-climbing (or using a running-belay) is a climbing technique where a pair of climbers who are attached by a rope simultaneously...

specialized in big wall climbing and aid climbing, and who set many speed climbing records and made the first "one-day ascent" for many climbing routes on...