This page explains the terms and jargon associated with climbing and mountain climbing.
These terms can vary greatly between different English speaking countries, so the phrases described here may be specific to, for example, the US and the UK.
Video Glossary of climbing terms
A
Yarns
- Abseiling point types used primarily in winter and icebergs. Also known as V-thread.
Ablation zone
- Glacier area where annual disbursements meet or exceed the annual snow season.
Abseil
- The process by which a climber can descend the fixed ropes. Also known as Rappel .
ACR (Alpine Cock Ring)
- The anchor method is similar to the cordelette but dynamically equates. It uses wires and rappel rings.
Adze
- A thin blade mounted perpendicular to the handle on the ice ax that can be used to cut footing.
Climbing help
- The climbing style where standing or pulling up through devices attached to fixed or stationary protection is used to make progress upward.
Alpine Ascent
- Generally climbing in the mountains. May include a mixture of ice-skating and dry-utensils. Alpine style generally means bringing all the equipment in the backpacks even for a multi-day climb.
Alpine Knee
- To use your knees as a way to get land on the climb.
Start Alpine
- To make an efficient start in the long climb by packing all your equipment the night before and beginning early in the morning, usually before sunrise.
Higher disease
- Medical conditions are often observed at high altitudes. Also known as Acute mountain sickness , or AMS. Typical symptoms include headache and nausea. Symptoms disappear quickly with reduced altitude.
American death triangle
- An anchor created by connecting the loop of a closed or woven loop between two points of protection, and then suspending the strap from the carabiner clamped to just one anchor string. This creates a triangular shape in a net or umbilical cord, which places inward forces multiplied massively in protection, making it a dangerous and ineffective anchor.
Anchor
- One or more (usually) more sets of equipment are set up to support the weight of the belay or the top rope.
Approach
- Path or route to the start of a technical ascent. Although this is generally a walk or, at least, the fight is sometimes as dangerous as the climb itself.
Ar̮'̻te
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- Features such as small ridges or sharp corners facing out on steep rock surfaces
- Ar̮'̻te, narrow rock cliffs formed by glacial erosion
- Indoor climbing method, where one can use such angles as a handle. See also dihedral.
Arm bar
- Squeeze arms to crack and lock in place.
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- (from the French word meaning curve ) Used to describe crimping. In this position is usually the first set of hyperextended knuckles and the second has a sharp angle of about 90 degrees. It combines muscle effort with soft tissue strain to apply the load. When used frequently, this position has been known to over-emphasize the tendon on the finger and cause injury.
Climb
- To climb a rope using a tool.
Ascender
- Tools to get to the rope.
Aspect
- Tilt direction is facing down.
ATC
- Proprietary belay devices manufactured by Black Diamond. Has become a generic term for tubular belay devices. ATC originally stood for 'Air Traffic Controller'.
Automatic Belay
- A quick method for setting up a two-point anchor in a sports climb, using a climbing rope to cling to the anchor point.
Austrian thread
- When a climber falls in the manner in which the ropes they attach run through their feet; when it falls, the rope tightens and delays the climber through the rope rather than the harness.
Maps Glossary of climbing terms
B
"B" -grade
- The rating system for bouldering issues, found by John Gill. Now most are replaced by "V" rating system.
ladder Bachar
- A piece of training equipment used to improve campusing and core strength.
Back cover
- Potentially offensive mistakes that can be taken while climbing climbing. The rope is cut into quickdraw in such a way that the tip of the leader goes under the quickdraw as opposed to it. If the leader falls, the rope can fold directly over the gate causing it to open and remove the rope from the carabiner.
Bail
- To retreat from the ascent.
Ball Nut
- A type of aid consisting of nuts and movable spheres.
Door-warehouse
- If all the climbing points of contact with the wall are on the straight axis, or close to it, the body may be swinging uncontrollably down around this axis, like a door on a hinge.
Bashie
- Copperhead intended to hit into the gap
Belay
- To protect roped climbers from falling by passing a string through, or around, all types of friction increases the tethering device. Before the belay device is found, the rope is simply passed around the belayer's hip to create friction.
Belay device
- Mechanical tools used to create friction during belaying by putting a bend in the rope. Many types of belay devices exist, including ATC, Grigri, Reverso, Sticht plate, eight and bulbs. Some tethering devices can also be used as derivatives. A Munter hitch can sometimes be used instead of a belay device.
Belay Loop
- The strongest point in harness. This is the loop you use on your tethering device. You do not have to tie anything around a belt loop like a daisy chain or sling. Belay loops will wear out faster.
Open again
- Called by the belayer to confirm the belay has been removed from the climbing rope. Response to Inactive request.
Belay on
- Called by the belayer to confirm belay has been (reopened) applied to the climbing rope. Response to tethering request.
Belay slave
- Someone who volunteered, or was deceived, was repeatedly denied duty without taking part in the actual ascent.
Belay Station
- The place where belaying belayer, when anchored to stone or other objects.
Benightment
- Bivouac's unscheduled nights are often epic.
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- A ravine that forms at the top of the glacier in which the moving part withdraws from the headwall. Also called 'shrund. [/Dd]
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- Suggestions on how to successfully complete (or protect) certain climb routes, rock bits, or core sequences. Some climbers believe that beta 'taints' is a climb.
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- The ascent of the climb on the first attempt, after earlier getting the beta or beta when lifted from the ground on the trip. See also in view.
Bicycle
- Techniques used to keep the leg while climbing overhang. One foot is placed on the footrest and the other foot is placed behind the footing in the position of the hook. The climber can now press the handle between the legs.
Bidoigt
- (French "two fingers") The climbing handle, usually a pocket or hueco, which has enough space for two fingers. See also mono.
Large wall
- Climb where most parties will spend more than a day. The style of large walls generally refers to transporting the required equipment (food, water, sleeping bags) in a sleeping bag. Instead of bringing equipment to their people, the climbers put it in a carrier bag and raised it on the sidelines of the pitch.
Biner
- Lihat Carabiner.
Bivy (or bivvy)
- From the French "bivouac". A camp, â ⬠<â â¬
Bivy-bag
- Lingerie or sack that offers body-wide protection from wind and rain.
Bollard
- A large button of stone or ice used as anchor belay.
Bolt
- The protective point is permanently installed in a hole drilled into a rock, where a hanger is fitted, has a hole for the carabiner or ring.
The bolt cuts
- A deliberate and destructive deletion of one or more bolts.
Bomb-resistant reader
- Really safe markers. Also known as bomber . Bomber can also refer to a very strong grip or footing ("Bomber Jug")
Books or open books
- The inner corner of the stone. See also the dihedral.
Booty
- Gear tertinggal di area pendakian.
Bosun chair
- To reduce pain from climbing heavy duty using armor; such as long-running or running new routes, climbers put on their armor with special seat types, which are usually light and have many straps and high-end buckles. Similar types are also used in industrial climbing.
Bouldering
- Practice climbing on a boulder. Usually this is close to the ground, so the protection takes the form of accidental bearings and spots instead of belay straps.
Bridging
- see Stemming
Bucket
- Pegangan besar.
Bumbly
- Incompetent beginners or climbers.
Bummer
- The slang word, referring to a difficult or uncomfortable handle, is often the one that tears the skin on the hand.
Bump
- The technique of climbing where a hand or foot is moved to one hatch, then quickly moves up to the lap of further. This is often done in short distance forward from the inferior grip to the higher.
Buildering
- The art of climbing in a building, which is often illegal.
Butt
- Prominent features that protrude from rocks or mountains.
C
Cairn
- Different stone piles are placed to point to the top or mark the trail, often above the trees.
Cam
- The spring kit used for protection.
Camming
- Movement or position where rotation of parts of the apparatus or body part presses tightly against the stone, creating friction and holding it in place. Like on a Spring-loaded camming device, Heel-Toe Camming , or kamer knee.
Campus
- Action climbing without any foot.
Campus board
- Training tools are used to build strong finger strength and arm locking.
Carabiner
- Metal rings with spring loaded gates, used as connectors. Usually oval or approx. D. Also known as crab or binary (pronounced kar-uh-bee-ner ).
Lime
- Compounds used to improve grip by absorbing sweat. Actually this is gymnastics chalk , usually magnesium carbonate. Its use is controversial in some areas.
lime bag
- A hand holder for climbing chalk which is usually carried in lime for easy access while climbing.
Chest jam
- Crammed the torso into the wide gap, to rest.
Cheese Grater
- Slide down by climbing the slab style.
Chicken head
- see the milestone, the horn.
Chicken Wing
- This is a crack climbing technique. A hand is placed on one side of the slit and shoulder on the other.
Chimney
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- A rock crevice with vertical sides mostly parallel, large enough to fit into the body of a climber. To climb such a structure, climbers often use their head, back, and legs to apply opposite pressure on the vertical wall.
- The process uses such a technique ( chimneying ).
Chipping
- Improve endurance by permanently altering stones, which are considered unethical and unacceptable.
Chock
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- Mechanical tools, or slices, are used as anchors in the gap.
- A natural stone sandwiched in a crack.
Choss
- The stone is loose or "rotten".
Classification
- View Classroom.
Clawing
- Use of the crampon's front point, pick ice ax and ice hammer to climb the slope.
Clear
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- To remove equipment from the route.
- Routes that are free from vegetation and free rocks.
- To finish the climb without falling or centering on the rope. Also see the redpoint.
- In the help climb, abbreviated "C", a route that does not require the use of hammers or invasive additional protection (such as pitons or copperheads) into the rock (see protection).
Cleaner
- Device to remove jammed equipment, especially nuts, from the route. Also known as the nut key or nut tool .
Climbing area
- Areas that are abundant with climbing routes.
Climbing Order
- Short phrases used for communication between climbers and belays.
Ascend gym
- Indoor climbing halls. See sports climbing. (Usually just called 'climbing the wall' in England).
Ascending shoes
- Footwear specially designed for climbing. Usually fitting, with rubber soles.
Hiking techniques
- Special, or moving techniques, usually applied in the climb.
Climbing the wall
- Artificial stones, usually in rock climbing.
Scrapbook at
- Attach to belay lines or anchor for protection.
Clipstick
- Lihat klip Stick.
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- Small pass or "saddle" between the two peaks. Excellent for navigation as when standing in one of it is always down in two, opposite, direction and up in two directions between them.
Cold shuts
- Industrial hardware used to connect or repair steel chains, occasionally adapted by climbers as anchor repellent. Cold clumps can be open, closed or welded. Open cold shuts are unchanged hardware, hammered closed and sometimes welded, resulting in safer anchors.
Copperhead
- A small nut with a head made of soft metal on a wire loop.
Cable lock
- The key or toggle is used to tie the strap with a hand-woven hand. Used in most mountain climbing.
Cordelette
- The long circle of accessory cable used to bind to some anchor points.
Corner
- In stone corners, opposite to cedar (English). See Dihedral.
Cornice
- The edge overhanging the snow on the ridge.
Couloir
- A steep mound or gorge that is often filled with snow or ice.
Climbing ascent
- To rise to the surface of the stone by the body part squashed into the crack, it is not a climb of the face. See jamming and chimney.
Crag
- Small area with climbing routes, often just small cliffs or some big rocks.
Crampon
- Metal frame with nails attached to boots to improve safety in snow and ice.
Cramponing
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- Use crampons to rise or fall on the ice, preferably with the maximum number of crampon points into the ice for weight distribution.
- Accidentally pierced something with a crampon spike.
Crank
- To pull a handle as hard as possible.
Crash pad
- Thick bushes used to soften the landing or to cover dangerous objects in the event of a fall. See : Bouldering mat
Crater
- Hit the ground at the bottom of the collapse instead of being caught by a rope.
Crimp
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- The handle is only large enough to hold with the tip of the finger.
- The process of holding a crimp.
Crux
- The hardest part of the ascent.
Cup
- The pressed hand, above or around the side, between the fingers and the palm, forming the cup shape by hand, or applying this type of handle to any bulge or feature. Better known as guppy.
Cut-loose
- Where the foot of a climber swings away from a rock in an overhanging field, leaving a climber who only rely on their hands. Also known as "Cut off the feet."
Cwm
- (Welsh) A hanging valley, or cirque - a steep semicircular basin on a mountain - sometimes contains a lake; also known as corrie.
D
Daisy Chain
- A special-purpose type of sling with some sewn or tied loops, used in aids and climbing large walls. It is designed to hold the climber's weight, rather than withholding the fall, and while the overall slings will have a power rating comparable to the standard slings, but individual loop sides (pockets) will usually have a much lower rating. This is because the load between the two power ratings can cause broken pocket stitches, allowing attachment devices, usually carabiners, to slide to the end of the sling before being stopped by a greater force of the webbing material itself.
Dead Ball
- Type of High Ball Stone, where a person can die when falling from above.
Dead hang
- To hang drowsiness, such as the weight held by the tension of the ligament rather than the muscles.
Deadman anchor
- An object buried in the snow to serve as an anchor for the attached rope. One of the common types of such anchors is the coincidence of snow.
Deadpoint
- Controlled dynamic motion in which the handle is captured with one hand at the top of the upward motion of the body, while one or both legs and the other hand maintain contact with the stone. The dynamic movement in which both feet leave the stone is usually called the dynos.
Deck
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- Land.
- To touch the ground, usually the result of the fall.
Deep Water Soloing
- Free climb up the area that protrudes the body deep enough to make it possible to fall safely. Often abbreviated DWS.
Descender
- Devices for a controlled drop on a string. Also called rappel devices. Many tethering devices can be used as derivatives, including ATC, number eight, or even carabiners. See rappel.
Desmond
- Fall off the ground (from Desmond Dekker, reggae artist and 'to deck').
Dexamethasone
- Pharmaceutical drugs used in the treatment of high altitude cerebral edema and high altitude pulmonary edema. This is usually done on mountain climbing expeditions to help climbers overcome altitude sickness. Also known as "dex".
Dialed
- To have a complete understanding of a particular climbing step or route.
Diamox
- The drug used to inhibit the occurrence of altitude sickness. Or known as acetazolamide .
Di̮'̬dre
- A dihedral.
Dihedral
- An inner stone corner, with an angle of more than 90 degrees between faces. See also angle and level.
Live help
- A voltage climb type that consists of using one or more belay lines to transport the leader to the next point of protection.
Dirtbag
- climbers live cheaply and support themselves through side jobs to maximize the amount of climb time. Famous practitioners of this lifestyle include Jan and Herb Conn or Fred Beckey.
Double Ropes or Half Ropes
- The system in which climbers use two thin straps instead of one thicker. Double straps are often used by traders and alpines. They help manage the drag ropes, reducing the chances of accidentally cutting the rope by the sharp edge of the rock, and allowing full rappeling pitch. Unlike twin ropes, double straps can be cut separately into different parts.
Double Stitch Technique (DRT)
- This term indicates the use of double straps.
Double Rope Technique (DdRT)
- A method used mainly by tree climbers where the rope passes the support/branch and continues to glide over the limb as the climber rises or falls.
Downclimb
- To get off by climbing down, usually after finishing the climb.
Drop Knee
- Lihat Mesir.
Drag or drag the string
- Pull straps occur when friction is generated from a rope that runs over a rock and through quickdraws builds up to the point where it is difficult to move or pull the rope to pin into protection. There are several ways to prevent straggles: protection placements that minimize zig-zaging of the rope and the potential rope pinched or hooked on the rock, the use of long quickdraws such as 24-inch alpine draw and the use of multiple ropes.
Baby's corner drilled or Drilled Piton
- This type of anchor is sometimes used in sandstone or other soft rocks instead of bolts. The anchor consisted of a piton angle infant hammered into a drilled hole, which some climber believed was stronger in soft rock than an expansion bolt, which could break the stone. They are very popular on desert routes in the US and can still be found on many routes.
Dry-tooling
- Use tools to climb ice like crampons and ice axes on rocks, that is, not on ice.
DÃÆ'ülfersitz
- The rappelling method, without mechanical means, in which the rope is climbed up by a climber and then circles around the hips, on the chest, over the opposite (weak) shoulders, and held by the hand decreased (strong) to adjust the shoulder friction and thus the speed decreased.
Dynamic tethering
- Long stopping technique using fine braking to reduce pressure on the point of protection and avoid unnecessary trauma from abrupt stop.
Dynamic strap
- A slightly elastic strap that softens falls to some extent. Also tend to be damaged less severe by heavy loads. Compare with static straps.
Dynamic movement
- Any movement in which body momentum is used to pick up a handle that should not be reachable. In contrast to static techniques in which a slow and controlled three-point suspension and movement is the rule. When both feet leave a stone, it is called a dyno. When one or both legs maintain contact with the stone, it is called the dead point.
Dynamite starfish
- A tight grip, simultaneously marking both feet then proceeding roughly kicking down and down in a desperate effort to produce upward motion; making climbers resemble an explosive bottom feeder.
Dyno
- Dynamic movement in which both legs will leave the rock surface and come back after the target is on hold. Non-climbers would call it a leap or a leap.
E
Edge
- A thin ledge on the rock.
Crawl
- Use the shoe end on the footing. In the absence of a foothold, greasing is used.
Egypt
- Methods to reduce muscle tension in the arm while holding the side handle. One knee ends in a lower position with the body rotating toward the other foot. This can provide longer range as the body and shoulders rotate toward the hold. Also known as "drop knee."
Egyptian Mesian
- The same position as bridging or chimneying, but with one foot in front and one behind the body.
Eight-thousander
- A mountain that exceeds 8,000 meters above sea level.
Remove
- A bouldering step or series of movements in which either a particular holding is placed 'offbounds' or other artificial restrictions are imposed.
Elvis Legs
- shabby knees due to tired feet. See Sewing machine.
Epic
- Regular climbing is difficult to find by a combination of dangerous weather, injury, darkness, lack of readiness or other adverse factors. See Punter.
ERNEST
- Stands for important things to consider when building anchors. Abbreviations stands for Equalized, Redundant, No Extension, Strong, and Timely. See also SERENE.
European Death Knot (EDK)
- A flat overhand used to join a pair of straps to be retrievable. Named so as a technique originating from Europe and America initially did not believe it.
Exposure
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- An empty space under climbers, usually referring to a great distance a climber is above the ground or a large ledge, or a psychological sense of this distance because it is not protected, or because the stone corners go because of climbing ar̮'̻te or overhang.
- Hypothermia results from prolonged exposure to cold, wind and rain.
Extreme
- Part of the English adjectival rating system, originally short for very/very heavy (XS); now divided numerically into E1, E2, etc.
F
Face climb
- To rise to a vertical stone surface using finger grips, edges and smudges, ie not cracks.
Fall
- To inadvertently descend using gravity as a relief. Hopefully it is stopped with a rope.
Leg follows
- Instructions on indoor bouldering routes that require leg movement in accordance with previous hand movements, without continued movement.
Features
- The protrusion or indentation in the indoor climbing wall permanently formed into the wall itself.
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- The route on the mountain where security is provided by a steel rope or chain, permanently fixed to the rock. This development is often aided by artificial steps or stairs. Usually found in the Alps, also called Klettersteig.
Picture four
- Advanced climbing techniques where climbers hook their legs over opposing arms, and then push down with these feet to achieve greater vertical reach. Requires strong strength and grip.
Picture eight
- A belay or descender device shaped like "8".
Picture eight vertices
- A node commonly used to secure a climber's strap to a climbing rope.
Finger clock or Finger key
- The type of jam uses a finger. See climbing techniques.
Fingerboard
- Training tools are used to build finger strength.
First ascensionist
- The person who made the first ascent.
First Ascent (FA)
- The first successful route solution.
First free ascent (FFA)
- First ascent without help.
Fist hours
- Types of jam by hand. See climbing techniques.
Strap fixed
- Ropes that have fixed attachment points. Usually used for abseiling or climbing aid.
Mark
- A climbing technique in which the foot is held in a position to maintain balance, rather than to support weight. Often useful to prevent warehouse doors. There are three types of tagging:
- Normal flag: The foot tag is on the same side (eg marking with the right foot out to the right side of the body)
- Reversing the flag: Where the thrown foot is crossed in front of the foot on the footing
- Overturns the outer flag: Where the legs are crossed behind the foot on the footing
Flake
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- A thin piece of stone slipped from the main face.
- A rope-binding method in which the rope is run through the climber's hands and allowed to fall into the pile on the ground. Useful when preparing a rope for a circle, or before starting a lead ascent, to make sure the rope is fed clean and without corners. Often called "throw" the rope.
Flapper
- Injury consisting of a loose piece of leather (packing). A climber will usually just fix it with masking tape or super glue.
Flash
- To successfully and cleanly complete the climbing route on the first attempt after receiving a beta of some form. Also refers to this type of climbing. To climb on the first attempt without receiving a beta, look at the view.
Flat-lander
- Non-pendaki.
Flute
- Fins that are usually unsafe or rock or ice fragments.
Follow
- What the second did.
Font
- French bading scoring system.
Foot clock
- Also known as the heel-to-toe sleeve. This involves jamming the foot into a larger gap by turning the foot into place, the contact with the cracks being in the heel and toes.
Fourteener
- The 14,000 foot (4,300 m) high mountain in the adjoining United States.
Free base
- Climb with your only protection is the parachute that is deployed during the fall. Combination of free solo games, and BASE jumping.
Free hikes
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- Hiking without unnecessary help, apart from being used as a cover.
- Frequently used by non-climbers as a synonym for solo play.
Solo free
- Ascend without help or protection. This usually means climbing without a rope.
French free
- Also known as French Ascent , or French Liberation , is the use of climbing aid techniques for cutting off sections due to climbing difficulty, rock conditions, etc.; usually only for the shorter part of the total climb.
Franceies
- The exercises used to develop a lock-off force consisting of pull-up stops with elbows locked at angles between 20 and 160 degrees.
Friable
- Smooth and easily damaged, often dangerous.
Friction
- Climbing techniques rely on friction between slant and shoe to support the weight of the climber, as opposed to using a handle or edge, cracks, etc.
Friends
- The name brand of the spring cameras (SLCD) made by Wild Country, is sometimes used to refer to any type of spring camming device.
G
Gaston
- The climbing handle with one hand with the thumbs down and the elbows outward, often regarded as the opposite side attraction. Grips hold the friction hold by pressing out toward the elbows.
Gate Flutter
- Action gate at the opening of the carabiner when it falls.
Gendarme
- A peak or isolated stone tower is often found along the ridge.
Geneva rappel
- A modified dammersitz rappel using a hip arm and downhill for friction, rather than chest and shoulders, offers less complexity, but less friction and less control. The 'Geneva style' is also a description used in Australia for what is often referred elsewhere as 'Australian Rappelling'.
Glacier travel
- walk or climb the glacier; The rope is usually used to catch fall into the niche-es, but protection is not used.
Glissade
- Actions that usually volunteer glide down the steep slope of the snow.
Golden Retriever
- When a climber is clearing the route and forgets to pull a piece or untie the rope and start climbing over the piece that makes the top rope ineffective.
Gorp
- Trail mix to bite periodically to maintain a high level of energy between meals by long climbing or climbing. Its name comes from "good raisins and beans."
Class
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- Measured as an objective measure of the technical difficulty of climbing or specific bouldering problems. More often very subjective, however.
- Tilt of the slope. (Value (geography))
Graunchy
- Routes (often wide) that require the use of unusual and uncomfortable techniques.
Green Point
- Climbing the sport route using traditional equipment.
Grigri
- The belay device is designed to be easy to use and safer for beginners as it is aided by braking under load. Invented and produced by Petzl. Many experienced climbers advocate using atc tools for beginners.
Grasp
- Fear. Also more gripping rocks.
Enriched
- Inadvertently going off-route while leading and getting lost on a rock surface in a much more difficult area than the climb is being made. The word came from the "Gronk" climb in Avon Gorge which is famous for this.
Grovel
- Climb with a bad style or technique.
- The climb route is assessed without redeeming virtue.
Gumby
- Inexperienced climbers, ignorant and unconscious; is a derogatory term. Gumbies is not able to learn.
Guppy
- Synonyms for trophies, usually used in bouldering.
Rock climbing
- Climb indoors, on artificial climbing wall. This is usually for training but many people consider this a useful activity in itself.
Ball Grease
- Routes that have gone up excessively, cause the stone to be slippery or "greasy".
H
HACE
- High Altitude Cerebral Edema - a severe illness, and often fatal, altitude form.
Hamster
- The act of withdrawal with both arms parallel to your chest. Resembles a Hamster while breastfeeding. The sloper needed some hamstering to get to the next step.
Hand clock
- Make progress by inserting the hand (usually vertically with the topmost thumb) into the crack and then pushing the thumb down toward the palm of the hand. It extends hands and can make a very secure placement. In the UK this move is credited with facilitating progress in free climbing in the late 1940s and 50s by climbers like Joe Brown and Don Whillans even though they did not create it. '
Hand traverse
- Traverse without a firm footing, ie smudges or heels.
Hangdog
- When leading the climb or on a rope, to hang a rope or a piece of protection to rest.
Hanging belay
- Belaying at a point in such a way that the belayer is suspended.
HAPE
- High Altitude Pulmonary EdemaÃ, - a serious form of altitude sickness.
Harness
- Woven web tools sewn around waists and thighs designed to allow one to hang safely in the air.
Haul Bag
- A large and often heavy bag to which toys and climbing equipment can be thrown.
Headpoint
- Practice top-roping hard trading routes before leading them clean.
Headwall
- Terrain at the top of a dramatic cliff or cliff.
- Heel hook
- Using the back of the heel to apply pressure to the hold, for balance or leverage; this technique requires pulling with the heel of the foot by stretching the hamstring. This technique is famous for in many forms of climbing using the toes to push.
Heel-toe
- Combination hook and foot heel hook. Also known as the toe-toe cam, involves the use of opposite pressure from the toes and heels between the two handles to hold the body on the wall.
Helmet
- Also known as a brain basket or skid cover . This can save your life, but only when it's used.
Hendrix
- .
hex Hexcentric
- Protective devices. This is an eccentric hexagonal pea attached to the wire loop. Peanuts are inserted into the crack and held by back pressure. Often simply called Hex .
High Ball
- The big rock problem. Falling becomes more dangerous because of the high increase.
Himalaism
- Ascend grows in the Himalayas. In the wider sense of climbing this Himalayan mountain, similar to the nature of climbing in the Himalayas, but also growing in other high mountains, where the peak heights above 7,000 meters above sea level are Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush, Pamir, Tien Shan, Daxue Shan.
Hold
- Place to temporarily stick, hold, jam, press, or stand in the climbing process.
HMS Carabiner
- A round carabiner for use with Munter hitch (from the German name for obstruction; Halbmastwurfsicherung ).
Refreshed
- Be at the peak of mental and physical fitness to climb.
Hook
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- Equipment used for climbing help.
- Climbing techniques involving hooking up the heels or toes with a retainer to balance or provide additional support.
Horn
- Large, spiky rocky bulge that can be draped. Usually also make a good grip. Known in the UK as "Spike". See bollard, chicken head.
Hueco
- (Spanish hueco "hole") The climbing handle consisting of a pouch on a rock, usually round and in and featuring a positive lip. Huecos vary in size from accommodating one finger (this is also called "mono") until it is large enough to fit the whole body of a person. The term hueco enters the climber jargon of the famous Texas Hueco Tanks climbing area known for this kind of detention.
I
Ice ax
- A practical tool for security and balance, has a pick/adze head and a spike at the end of the shaft.
Ice hammers
- Light ice ax with a hammer head/hold on a short handle and no spikes.
Ice Pit
- Long, wide, jagged pitons have been used for weak protection on ice.
Ice Screws
- Screws used to protect climbing on steep ice or to set up a crevasse dive system. The most powerful and reliable is a modern tubular ice screw that ranges in length from 10 to 23 cm.
Ice tool
- A special elaboration of modern ice axes (and often described as widely as ice axes or technical axes), is used in ice climbing, mostly for more difficult configurations.
Indoor climb
- View sports climbing.
J
Jack Flash
- Climb the second one away.
jamming
- Clamping a body part into a crack.
Jib
- Very small footing, usually just big enough for big toe, sometimes very dependent on friction to support weight.
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Jug
- The short term for Jug Hold, both nouns and verbs.
Jug hold
- Large handle, easy to hold. Also known only as jars .
Jumar
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- Mechanical ascender type.
- To ride a rope using a mechanical ascender.
K
Karen
- Lihat Cairn
Knot Klemheist
- Alternative to the Prusik node, useful when climber lacks a rope but has plenty of net fabric.
Knee Bar or Kneebar
- Involves camming your lower or knee thighs against the protruding stone parts, usually with the legs pushing against the opponent's handle. Kneebars can be very safe and are one of the few ways to get a handseless break on a rock that juts out. They can also provide additional climbing.
Lutut Drop
- Lihat Mesir.
Knots
- Climbers rely on many different knots to drag themselves to the mountain, join the two straps together, cloth for climbing rope, etc.
L
Laybacking or liebacking
- Climb the vertical edges with the sides pulling the edges with both hands and relying on friction or very small grips for the feet.
Leads ascent
- A climbing form where climber climbs a rope to a withdrawal or similar equipment attached to the wall by means of anchor. In traditional climbing, climbers also need to install anchors and quickdraws. In sports climbing, anchors are usually replaced, and quickdraws can be placed or placed by climbers.
Leader Fall
- Fall while leading the ascent. Fall from the top of the last climber of the climber. The fallen leader will fall at least twice the distance back to the last part, plus looseness and stretching the rope.
Leashless
- Climbing the ice with your ax is not attached to your wrist, if you drop it, they are lost, but the trade off is greater mobility
Leavittation
- A technique used to climb beyond the pile pioneered by Randy Leavitt and Tony Yaniro, this technique uses hand heaps/hand boxing and key/calf keys.
Liquid Chalk
- The form of liquid chalk with a longer lasting time than ordinary lime. This is used on very hard routes and competitions, where repetitive actions require too much energy or time.
Lock carabiner
- Carabiner with locking gate, to prevent accidental release of rope.
Lock-off
- Uses tendon strength to support weight on the handle without over-exhausting the muscles.
Low Angle
- Climb face less than vertical; the opposite of overhang or roof. Same as "slab".
M
Mantel (short for hanging shelf )
- Steps used to tackle balustrades or features on the stone without any useful grips just above. This involves pushing on a ledge or feature instead of pulling away. In ice climbing, patching is done by moving the hand from the shaft to the top of the ice tool and pressing the bottom of the tool.
Mantle
- External cover of climbing rope. The climbing rope uses a kernmantle construction consisting of kern (or core) for external forces and coats called mantles.
Match
- To use a handle for two limbs.
Merkel
- To pick up another climber's tooth because he can not or because it will be more comfortable.
Trench
- A niche that forms in place of glaciers withdraws from rock formations.
Mono
- (French monodoigt 'single finger') The climbing handle, usually a pocket or hueco, which has just enough room for one finger.
Mountain rescue
- Search and rescue activities that occur in mountainous environments, although this term sometimes applies to search and rescue in other jungle environments. Also see rescue doctrine.
Move
- Application of special climbing techniques to advance on the climb.
Move together
- The climb method - used in easy Alpine land - where two or more climbers climb at the same time by running the wilderness between them and the belay that is still unused. Similar to simulclimbing, techniques for steep terrain.
Multi-pitch assault
- Climb the route that is too long for a single belay strap.
Munter hitch
- A simple barrier that is often used for belaying without mechanical tethering devices. Or known as Italian hitch or hitch hitch .
N
Naturals
- Rock climbing: a natural feature of the wall texture itself, which can be climbing but not bolt.
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- Permanent granular ice formed by repetitive freezing cycles.
No arm rest
- Resting position supported entirely by the foot during a climb that does not require a hand on a rock.
Nub
- Small handles that can only be gripped by a few fingers, or toes of a toe.
Nunatak
- A mountain or a rock that juts through the ice field.
Nut
- A metal slice attached to a wire loop inserted into the gap for protection. See hexcentric.
Nut Key atau tool nut
- Lihat Alat Pembersih.
Ninja Leg
- Placement of the toes is quiet, deliberate, and just above the footing.
O
Objective hazard
- Dangers in climbing situations stemming from the inherent dangers of climbing locations, are not dependent on the level of climbing skills. Most often it involves falling rock or ice, or an avalanche.
Disable belay
- Called by a climber when requesting belayer removes tethering equipment from a climbing rope (for example, while clearing top protection from the main route). Reply with Belay off.
Off-width
- Cracks that are too wide for an effective foot or hand jam, but not as big as a chimney.
on tethering
- What the Americans call a climber when he's ready to be cheated. Replied with Belay on.
On-sight
- The ascent is clean, without previous practice or beta. For climb on the first attempt by receiving a flash view beta.
Open a book
- The inner corner of the stone. See also the dihedral.
Overhang
- Rock or ice sloped beyond the vertical. See the roof.
Indebtedness
- In the position of the debtor, one's back is facing the wall and has a posture resembling a debtor hanging with an outstretched limb. The main debts are used for horizontal traversal. On the left traversal, the sequence begins by stretching the right leg and right hand between the left foot and left hand placement to reach the next supportive rock feature. The sequence is symmetrical.
P
Panic Bear
- A frantic novice climber clings to the handle while looking for a foothold in despair.
Peak-bagging
- To systematically reach the specified peak under specified conditions.
Peel
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