Portal:Climbing

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Sport climbing • Traditional climbing • Free climbing • Aid climbing • Big wall climbing • Free solo climbing • Roped solo climbing • Crack climbing • Via ferrata

When lead climbing, the lead climber wears a harness tied to one end of a rope. The leader's partner provides the belay, paying out rope as needed, usually with the aid of a belay device, to catch the leader in the event of a fall. The lead climber ascends the route, periodically placing protection for safety in the event of a fall.

Bouldering is a form of rock climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls, known as boulders, without the use of ropes or harnesses.

Speed climbing is a climbing discipline in which speed is the ultimate goal. Speed Climbing is done on rocks, walls and poles

Ice climbing is the activity of ascending inclined ice formations. Usually, ice climbing refers to roped and protected climbing of features such as icefalls, frozen waterfalls, and cliffs and rock slabs covered with ice refrozen from flows of water.


 * International Competitions: Sport climbing at the 2020 Summer Olympics • IFSC Climbing World Championships • IFSC Climbing World Cup • Sport climbing at the World Games • IFSC Climbing European Championships • IFSC Climbing Asian Cup • Rock Master
 * Organizations: International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) • International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA) • USA Climbing • German Alpine Club (DAV) • British Mountaineering Council (BMC)
 * Disciplines: Lead • Bouldering • Speed • Ice • Deep Water Solo



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 * Mountaineering: Alpine style • Expedition style • Alpine Clubs • Boots • Crampons • Ice axes • Mountain huts • Mountain rescue • Ropes • Rucksacks • Effects of high altitude on humans
 * History: Golden age of alpinism • Silver age of alpinism • Timeline of climbing Mount Everest • Exploration of the High Alps
 * Alpine clubs: Alpine Club (UK) • German Alpine Club (DAV) • Austrian Alpine Club • Swiss Alpine Club • Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) • American Alpine Club • Japanese Alpine Club
 * Pioneers: Christian Almer • Melchior Anderegg • Hermann von Barth • Walter Bonatti •  Meta Brevoort • William Martin Conway • Angelo Dibona • Hans Dülfer • Paul Grohmann • Adolphus Warburton Moore  • Paul Preuss • Ludwig Purtscheller • Schlagintweit brothers • Leslie Stephen • Gottlieb Samuel Studer • Tenzig Norgay • Herbert Tichy • Lucy Walker • Edward Whymper • Georg Winkler • Matthias Zurbriggen
 * High-altitude mountaineers: Chris Bonington • Hermann Buhl • Kurt Diemberger • Ralf Dujmovits • Günther Dyhrenfurth • Maurice Herzog • Sir Edmund Hillary • Sandy Irvine • Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner • George Mallory • Nives Meroi • Reinhold Messner • Simone Moro • Oh Eun-sun • Edurne Pasaban • Wanda Rutkiewicz • Lionel Terray • Um Hong-Gil • Stephen Venables • Ed Viesturs • Other mountaineers
 * Publicists: Karl Blodig • W. A. B. Coolidge • David Breashears • Jon Krakauer • Gaston Rébuffat


 * Hands: Chalk • Athletic taping
 * Feet: Climbing shoe • Approach shoe • Mountaineering boot • Crampons • Ice cleat
 * Rope: Dynamic rope • Static rope • Kernmantle rope
 * Rope control: Belay device • Figure 8 • Self-locking device • Ascender • Sling
 * Harness: Climbing harness
 * Connectors: Carabiner • Quickdraw • Maillon
 * Protection devices: Hex • Nut • Spring-loaded camming device • Tricam • Piton
 * Permanent anchors: Anchor • Bolt
 * Training: Campus board • Climbing hold • Climbing wall
 * Ice: Ice tool • Ice axe • Ice screw
 * Miscellaneous: Helmet • Bouldering mat • Webbing • Portaledge • Rock climbing hammer • Copperhead

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