aspect of mountaineering boots is warmth. To prevent frostbite in extreme cold conditions, synthetic insulation is incorporated into the boot. Lighter...
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Crampon (traction aid) (category Mountaineering equipment)
have a solid frame, and large spikes, and may only be attached to a mountaineering boot, stretch-on traction devices often referred to as "microspikes" typically...
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Examples of ski mountaineering Ski mountaineering (abbreviated to skimo) is a skiing discipline that involves climbing mountains either on skis or carrying...
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Glissade (climbing) (redirect from Boot-skiing)
down snow slopes A glissade is a climbing technique mostly used in mountaineering and alpine climbing where a climber starts a controlled slide down a...
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Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include...
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Footwear Hill walking Mountaineering boots Trail running shoes Approach shoe Wellington boot "New Hill Walkers" (PDF). British Mountaineering Council. 2011....
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The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, commonly known by its French name Union internationale des associations d'alpinisme (UIAA; French...
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List of people who died climbing Mount Everest (category Mountaineering deaths on Mount Everest)
available. The upper reaches of the mountain are in the death zone, a mountaineering term for altitudes above a certain point – around 8,000 m (26,000 ft)...
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Whittaker Mountaineering, a climbing store in Ashford, Washington. Numerous organizations use Hahn as a guide including Rainier Mountaineering (for which...
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Glossary of climbing terms (redirect from Ladder (mountaineering))
aid climbing, lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing), mountaineering, and to ice climbing. The terms used can vary between different English-speaking...
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November 2022. The Mountaineers (2018). "Chapter 12. Alpine Climbing". Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (9th ed.). Quiller Publishing. ISBN 978-1846892622...
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High altitude breathing apparatus (redirect from Bottled oxygen (mountaineering))
type in several ways: by application: aviation breathing apparatus and mountaineering breathing apparatus. by breathing gas source: self-contained gas supply...
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Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills is often considered the standard textbook for mountaineering and climbing in North America. The book was first...
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there is both rock and ice (called dry-tooling if there is no ice). Mountaineering: Ascending mountains, which can involve some rock or ice climbing, but...
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following is a list of notable brands and manufacturers of climbing and mountaineering equipment (including for all forms of rock climbing and of ice climbing)...
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Grivel Scarpa Binding (category Mountaineering equipment)
Italian shoe and boot manufacturer, and Grivel, an Italian manufacturer of mountaineering crampons, ice axes and other mountaineering equipment. The system...
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Grade (climbing) (section Mountaineering)
tools with no ice) use the D-grade prefix (e.g. D8 instead of M8). In mountaineering and alpine climbing, the greater complexity of routes requires several...
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The Alpinist (category Climbing and mountaineering films)
and alpine climber, and girlfriend of Leclerc Bernadette McDonald, mountaineering historian and biographer Will Gadd, Canadian ice and mixed climber Jim...
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4: "The piton is an emergency aid and not the basis of a system of mountaineering". In 1913, German climber Rudolf Fehrmann published the second edition...
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Abseiling (category Mountaineering techniques)
origin of the term rappel in reference to the technique is attributed by Mountaineering author Roger Frison-Roche [fr; ca; de; eo; pt] circa 1944. Frison-Roche...
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Rock-climbing equipment (redirect from Mountaineering equipment)
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (known as the UIAA) was an important early body—and the only...
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the crack"), and specific information about hand or foot holds. For mountaineering and alpine climbing, beta may include information about the approach...
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Examples of fixed rope climbing In climbing and mountaineering, a fixed-rope (or fixed-line) is the practice of installing networks of in-situ anchored...
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