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da claudio1949 » mer mag 10, 2006 16:29 pm
Mountain Wilderness svizzera ha realizzato un DVD sul "clean climbing". Ma è in tedesco e quindi bisogna aprire un nuovo topic.
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da Herman » mer mag 10, 2006 23:20 pm
gingogiango, ti ammazzo il topic, niente di personale, appena pubblicato su ukclimbing e quindi capiata a fagiolo..traduci va' 
ABSEIL. To descend a rope using a descender or maybe with just the rope round your body (a classic abseil). Potentially lethal; the cause of more deaths than actually climbing upwards. Often abbreviated to AB. (Americans call it "rapelling" and shorten it to "rap".) [Hil McMillan]
ADVENTURE CLIMBING. What the British regard as normal and the French generally see as idiotique: anything traditional2, scary or otherwise likely to result in broken and shattered bits. What we love. [Dave Sheffield]
AID CLIMBING. Climbing using gear for resting or making progress. Covers everything from a brief rest on the rope on an otherwise traditional1 ascent to bolt ladders and étriers.
ALPINE START. Getting up earlier than about 5 am. So-called because climbers in the Alps tend to start early to avoid the queues or melting snow or simply because sleeping in a dormitory full of snoring Germans is a non-starter anyway. [Richard Furlong]
ARÊTE. An outward pointing bit of rock; a ridge or rib. Not to be confused with a corner.
ASCENDER. A device for climbing the rope when all else fails, or even, occasionally, by design. May be a simple prusik or more or less sophisticated mechanical device. [Mike Swann]
BACK AND FOOT. A technique for climbing chimneys where you put your back on one wall and push your feet against the opposite wall.
BARN DOOR. To swing round, away from the rock, when all your holds are on one side of your body; especially likely when laybacking an arête. Usually experienced where the hands and feet are on the same vertical surface, or the hands are holding something beyond the feet.
BELAY. (noun) A place where you attach yourself to the rock. This can either be done briefly (during a climb, you put in protection to create a "running belay" that the rope is clipped to) or more long-term, between pitches. In the latter case, the belay should involve many independent connections to the rock (or other immovable objects) that can bear a shockload of one or both climbers falling off. (verb) To protect another climber by preventing the rope from slipping; either with a belay device or with a body belay.
BELAY DEVICE. A piece of equipment which you use to control the rope when belaying. Belay devices include "belay tubes" (many brands), the Figure eight, the Gri-gri, and the Sticht plate.
BELLY TRAVERSE. A traverse that involves wriggling on your belly to get from one side of a shelf to the other (because the shelf isn't high enough to let you stand up). Done well, looks very professional, as it enables hands and feet off rest. Done badly, is the source of much amusement for watchers. Most people do it badly. Also known as a stomach traverse. [Ian Redmond]
BETA. Knowledge of trick moves or protection or just about anything about a route available before you start. Initially from the US, possibly from "Betamax" (early videotape format). If you get the beta on a route, you shouldn't encounter any nasty surprises. However, knowing the beta also negates the ideal onsight. Some purists argue that even route descriptions in guidebooks constitute beta, though this makes it hard to know how you could knowingly climb the route.
BODY BELAY. A belay performed by wrapping the rope around the body to provide friction should the climber fall. Painful. [Hil McMillan]
BOLD. Guidebook speak for unprotected, that is, no protection. [Tony Buckley]
BOLT. An expansion bolt (think: a big metal Rawlplug) fixed permanently into the rock face to protect a climb, thus removing the adventure climbing aspect. Used widely in France and other parts of the Continent; used sparingly (on average) in the UK, but some crags (such as Portland or Lower Pen Trwyn or some Welsh slate) are almost entirely bolt-protected. Arguments about bolts are unceasing on climbing discussion boards, and outside too. Bolts are the "murderers of the impossible" according to Reinholt Messner, but it's unarguable that sport climbing has played a key part in pushing climbing standards.
BOLT LADDER. A sequence of bolts used to overcome a blank section of rock.
BOMBER, BOMBPROOF. (Of holds, or gear) very good; could withstand the fabled bomb hitting them.
BOULDERING. Relatively low height climbing, often very technical, usually solo. Usually climbing is on boulders (hence the name), but the more technical starts of routes are often "bouldered" as well, without ropes or protection, except for a bouldering mat. [Lindsay Davies]
[Now that's how to carry a bouldering mat!, 1 kb]
Bouldering mats
BOULDERING MAT. A mattress sized foam block for protecting falls while bouldering (and sometimes climbing). [Lindsay Davies]
BOWLINE. A knot, used as an alternative to the figure of eight to attach the rope to your harness. When used in the "double" form, three loops are created, allowing the raising or lowering of an injured casualty. The knot is more complicated to tie than the figure of eight (and so easier to tie wrongly, which can be disastrous) but some climbers prefer its increased secureness. Also easier to untie after having been loaded (by falling or toproping) than the figure of eight. See this page for a picture [link opens in new window]. [Adam Palmer]
BREAK. A horizontal crack.
BRIDGE. To climb a route by applying equal pressure with the feet and hands in opposite directions on opposing pieces of the rock face. Useful in chimneys, corners and grooves.
BUCKET. A huge jug which the whole hand can grasp. If it arrives at the right time it is a thank god hold.
BULGE. A small rounded overhang.
BUTTRESS. A large protruding face or area of a crag.
CAMPUS BOARD. Overhung board with thin (one joint or so) wooden holds; meant to be ascended without using the feet. Can destroy tendons astonishingly fast. The acme of achievement is "1-5-9" (double-handed dynos from the first to fifth to ninth hold).
CAMPUSING. Ascending a route (usually overhung) using only the hands, in the style of one training on a campus board. Can be used as a training technique and also for impressing the girls... [Wendy Allison]
CHIMNEY. A crack wide enough to fit your whole body into.
CHALK. White stuff (magnesium carbonate, in fact) intended to keep hands dry, though "to keep holds white" sometimes seems like a more realistic description. Not the same as teachers' chalk or gymnasts' resin.
CHEATING. In a "sport" which has no rules, and where death is always a distinct possibility, it's hard to say that cheating as such exists while on a route. Pulling on protection, falling off, escaping to another, easier route or simply retreating can all be wise in the event. These only become "cheating" if you deny them afterwards and inflate your claims, perhaps saying you flashed a route when in fact you fell, or rested on the gear. Even this can be irrelevant ? nobody cares if you made it up that HVS cleanly except, apparently, you ? unless such claims could endanger others. Honesty is thus highly prized among climbers, and the suggestion that someone did not climb a route cleanly or never reached the top is a great insult. With no rules, climbing relies on a web of ethics; without trust, the enjoyment goes. OK?
CHICKENHEAD. American term for small lump of intrusive rock which sticks out of a slab. [Richard Furlong]
CHIPPING. The artificial manufacturing of holds where none exist, or the wilful enlarging of existing holds. Punishable by being banished to Holland which is completely flat and has no decent rocks, once the people who caught you let you out of hospital.
CHOCKSTONE. A piece of rock which is jammed immovably in a crack. Can be used as a hold or threaded.
CLASSIC ABSEIL. An abseil performed without the use of harness and descender. Painful in shorts and t-shirt, expensive in new Goretex. [Hil McMillan]
CHOSS. Soil, dirt, rubble, stones, vegetation, in fact anything other than good clean stable rock. [Lindsay Davies]
CLEANING. The act of removing loose rock, plant life and gravel from a route which if left in situ would render the route unsafe for you, your second or both. Enthusiastic cleaning is hard to distinguish from chipping.
CLOVE HITCH. A twin loop knot, used when the force exacted on each side of the knot is considered to be equal, Some use this knot in conjunction with two half hitches or thumb knots to form the basis of a ground ancher. Often used when placings for gear-based anchors are missing, or to tie off ropes (say, doubled back from a belay anchor). See this page [link opens in new window] for a picture. [Adam Palmer]
COMBINED TACTICS. A Victorian climbing term which involves the leader standing on the shoulders of the second in order to start the pitch. Often useful with Northumberland VS routes. [Richard Furlong]
CORNER. The inverse of an arête; like the crease of an open book. The most beautiful example in the UK is Dinas Cromlech, cleaved at 90 degrees. A really deep groove is indistinguishable from a corner.
[super crack of the desert, 1 kb]
A crack
CRACK. A split or fissure in the rock face. Horizontal cracks are known as breaks; wide cracks may be offwidths or chimneys. A very thin crack that will not easily take protection is known as a seam; it may take a piton.
CRAG. Any large expanse of rock.
CRATER. The act of decking out. Not recommended. [Louis Joyce]
CRIMP. A small hold onto which you can just get the ends of your fingers (or toes!).
CRUX. The hardest move on a pitch or the hardest pitch on a climb.
DECKING OUT. Falling and hitting the ground, usually hurting oneself, through lack of protection. Not recommended. Also known as a Desmond (geddit?).
DEEP WATER SOLOING A climb carried out on a cliff that is situated above the sea. Done without gear as thedecking outis reduced in sting by landing in the deep water. [Louis Joyce]
DESCENDER. A friction device used when abseiling, such as a figure eight or a Sticht plate. [Mike Swann]
DESPERATE. The sort of route (or section of route) involving lots of adventure climbing and very little in the way of protection or holds. Usually involves a lot of swearing, anxiety and RPs. [Dave Sheffield]
DIHEDRAL. American phrase for an open book formation such as Dinas Cromlech; known at home as a corner. [Robin Mueller]
DISCO LEG. Uncontrollable shaking of one or both legs on a climb. Curable by pushing the heel of the leg downwards while the toe stays on the rock. Usually indicates imminent retreat, either voluntary or gravity-assisted.
DOGGING. Trying and failing repeatedly on a route, and using the gear that has been put in to pull oneself up to a previous high point. Can also mean any repeated attempt to get up a route which involves a great deal of hanging off the gear without returning to the ground (the latter being yo-yoing).
DOING AN ELVIS. See disco leg. [Bug Mitchell, Wendy Allison]
DYNAMIC ROPE. A rope that allows some stretch when loaded. This reduces the shock-loading to the system (and the climber), and therefore improves safety. As opposed to a static rope. [Lindsay Davies]
DYNO. A dynamic move (jumping) for an out-of-reach hold. Fun to try at the climbing wall, scary outside on lead. [Hil McMillan]
ELIMINATE. A route that doesn't take the most obvious line. Often a route between two obvious lines. [Lindsay Davies] (There is also some discussion of the definition in this thread though it doesn't come to much of a conclusion.)
ETHICS. The informal rules that govern how climbers climb and how they talk and write about their climbs. Rules of conservation preserve the natural environment of the rocks ("don't climb on Mississippi Buttress when the ring ouzels are nesting"); access to the rocks ("ask the military before climbing in firing ranges"); and the rocks themselves ("don't climb on sandstone in nailed boots"); the rule of honesty ? always report your style of ascent ? allows climbers to compare their abilities; and rules of style preserve the possibility of failure. Without the rules of style every climb could have a bolt every metre and every ascent could use aid when it got too hard. But then where would the challenge and interest be? To have challenge, you must have uncertainty, and that means denying yourself technical aids. Styles of ascent include aid climbing, yo-yoing, pinkpoint, redpoint, traditional1, flash, headpoint, onsight, and solo. See also cheating.
ÉTRIER. A small rope ladder, usually made of tape, used in aid climbing.
EXCITING. Guidebook speak for both bold and difficult. At some point before an "exciting" move you will have a brief meditation on life, and how it might shortly be coming to an end. The best way to tackle such moves is actually not in an excited frame of mind, but rather calmly. [Tony Buckley]
EXPANDING FLAKE. A flake that moves when pulled on, or which looks as if it might move or even detach completely if pulled hard enough (for example, by falling onto a Friend placed behind it).
EXPOSED. The kind of position where you suddenly realise how far away the ground has become; a route or move that takes you into such a position. [Tony Buckley]
EXTENDER. A quickdraw.
FALL FACTOR. A number describing the severity of a fall, calculated by dividing the distance fallen by the length of rope between the falling climber and the belay. The forces involved in a fall are roughly proportional to the climber's weight and the fall factor.
FIGURE EIGHT. A descender or belay device, named for its shape, and very popular on the Continent and with sport climbers. Its low friction means that it needs more expert handling than a Sticht plate or gri-gri. Sometimes used to mean figure of eight.
FIGURE OF EIGHT. The most commonly used knot to attach a climber to the rope. (Strictly, it is a rethreaded figure of eight.) Solid, unlikely to slip, easy to teach and learn, and easy to see when it is tied wrongly.
[Chouca at Buoux, 1 kb]
A figure of 4
FIGURE OF FOUR. Peculiar climbing move which you won't believe until you see or try it. Essential when you have a brilliant handhold but absolutely no footholds. With one hand on the hold, wrap the opposite leg over the holding wrist. With a good enough hold and enough flexibility, you can get the thigh over the wrist. From here it is possible to reach up to higher holds. Preferable to a dyno if the higher hold is not very good, as it keeps the body close to the wall. Most useful on vertical or overhanging routes. Increasingly used by competition ice climbers, who put their leg over their embedded ice axe.
FINGERBOARD A large piece of wood with individual strips of wood attached. Used by experienced climbers to increase the strength in their fingers by doing pull ups and moves without the aid of their feet. Potentially very bad for finger tendons and ligaments if tried when not completely warmed up. [Louis Joyce]
FLAG. To stick a foot out sideways for balance, especially when stopping yourself from barn dooring.
FLAKE. A partially detached section of rock which will often yield good holds along its detached edge. Beware! Some flakes are expanding.
FLAPPER. Horrible little loose bit of skin that hangs off your fingers, invariably following intense bouldering on sharp rock such as greywacke (eg Baring Head). [Wendy Allison]
FLASH. To climb a route without practice (but perhaps with beta) without falls on the first viewing and first attempt. (This is very similiar to onsight, which is even purer: no beta.) Opinion is divided as to what constitutes beta: to some people, even knowing the route's grade makes an ascent a flash rather than an onsight. Also sometimes prepended to "git" when someone achieves this feat. [Adam Palmer]
FLEXIBLE FRIEND. A friend whose long thin stem (between the business end inserted into the rock, and the end where you attach your karabiner and rope) is made of wire cable instead of solid metal. If you fall off, the stem can bend, rather than being stressed over any protruding bits of rock.
FLYING LESSON. What a light-weight second gets when he hasn't anchored himself and his heavier leader takes a fall. [Mike Swann]
FREE CLIMBING. Progressing up a route by using your body rather than the gear. [Martin Brierley]
FRIEND. Brand name for the first make of spring loaded camming device, originally patented by Ray Jardine in 1978 (US patent 4,184,657) and now manufactured by Wild Country; loosely, any brand of SLCD. Its invention revolutionised rock climbing because it meant that climbs with parallel cracks could be protected.
GARDENING. Cleaning a potential route in such an aggressive manner that it verges on chipping.
GASTON. Also known as the "lift-opener". Inelegant but sometimes necessary manoeuvre where the fingers of both hands are placed in a crack as if to pull it apart by brute strength. Very tiring; hard to stay balanced. Can be required in shallow cracks where there is no chance of jamming or laybacking for some reason. Named after French climber Gaston Rébuffat.
GEAR. See protection.
GRADE. How difficult it is to climb something. A complete discussion of grades is far beyond this article (see instead our articles on English grading and Bouldering grading). Grades and grading systems are a source of constant dispute, even more than bolts, despite the fact that all climbs fall into two categories: can do and can't do.
GRI-GRI. A belay device which automatically locks when the leader of a climb pulls very hard on the rope. This can happen when they fall off, and less conveniently when they urgently need some extra rope.
GRIPPED. Terrified, unable to move, gripping the rock for dear life.
GRITSTONE RASH. Obvious hand injuries caused by jamming on God's own rock. [Hil McMillan]
GROOVE. Not foot-tapping rhythmic music, but rather, a long indentation in the rock face which is neither deep enough to be a crack nor defined enough to be a corner .
GUIDEBOOK SPEAK. The idiosyncratic language of climbing guides: bold, delicate, exciting, interesting, thoughtful, traditional2.
HARNESS. Combination of waist loop and leg loops, with belay loop and gear loops that climbers wear when not soloing. Should be comfortable for hanging around at belays.
HELMET. Useful device for preventing head injury and for protecting sandwiches during the walk-in. [Hil McMillan]
HEADPOINT. A traditional1 route which is led after (toprope) practice, sometimes with preplaced protection. Sometimes thought to be a modern affliction for routes over E8, though it was clearly already in use in Joe Brown's day in the 1950s; see the first ascent description for Brown's Eliminate (E2 5b), which talks of careful practice in the days of nailed boots. The traditional equivalent of a redpoint. [Michele McIntyre, Wil Treasure]
[Simon Chandler with the confident heelhook approach to Orpheus Wall, 2 kb]
A heel hook
HEEL HOOK. The act of bringing one of your feet up to chest height and 'hooking' it onto a hold. Good for reaching otherwise out-of-reach holds with your free hand. Suppleness usually a help. [Louis Joyce]
HEX. Not a spell, but a hexagonal-shaped aluminium piece of protection. Very effective in a crack or a break, though many people nowadays prefers friends to do the same job. (But a hex costs half as much as a friend.) Also known as a cowbell, for the noise that a collection makes on a climber's harness.
HIGHBALL. (American) term used to describe higher and more serious bouldering problems. [Robin Mueller]
HOLD. Any feature of the natural rockface which assists the climber's upward motion.
IN SITU. Latin for "in place". Guidebooks always recommend that you back up a piece of in situ protection (such as a piton or sling) with separate protection of your own. This is usually also impossible, as the reason the in situ gear was put there was because there the first ascensionist had no other option.
ITALIAN HITCH. Knot used to belay or abseil. Also known as a Münter hitch. Recommended when you have dropped your Sticht plate down the crag. Not recommended for multiple abseils as it twists the rope.
INTERESTING. Guidebook speak for puzzling, often extremely so. The reverse applies for spectators. Sometimes (sloppily) used interchangeably with exciting, so beware. [Tony Buckley]
JUG. An excellent handhold.
JAMMING. The best forgotten art. The technique of inserting part (or all) of the body into a crack to make progress. Thin cracks take fingers, wider cracks take hands and fists, and feared offwidth cracks devour arms, shoulders, knees, feet and legs and spit them out covered with gritstone rash.
KARABINER. An oval metal hoop with a springloaded "gate". Rope and protection are attached to karabiners. Also known as a "krab". Karabiners come in many forms, and arguments about which is best occupy many hours in gear shops.
LAYAWAY. A technique for climbing on sidepulls where you lean away from the hold to improve your grip. (It really doesn't matter if it's raining or if it's fine just as long as you've got time to layaway-away-way layaway lay-lay-away way lay away layaway.)
LAYBACK. A technique for climbing on sidepulls (holds that point sideways, especially one edge of a crack or one side of an arête) by using legs and arms in opposition: pushing legs in one direction while pulling on the handholds in the other.
LEADER. The person going up the route first; the one who solves the conundrum of "how do you get the rope up there then?". Is followed by the second. Hence "lead a route" and "leading a route"
MANTELSHELF. American (mis)spelling of mantleshelf.
MANTLE. Short for mantleshelf.
MANTLESHELF. Technique used to establish yourself on a ledge below a blank piece of rock. Colin Kirkus used to practise the move on his mantleshelf at home, which he recommended as a good way of getting rid of fragile unwanted presents from female relatives. If you've never seen a mantleshelf because you live in a modern house with central heating, try visualising the stylish way of getting out of a swimming pool. [Tony Buckley]
Also: a move in which the climber attempts to stand on the same horizontal surface their hands are holding. Various techniques are possible, most amusing (and last desperate resort of an exhausted traditional1 leader) being the bellyflop. Used most often during topping out. [Robin Mueller]
MARE. "Having a mare" is having major issues when halfway up a route. [Bug Mitchell]
MONODOIGT. A small pocket, big enough for one finger. Virtually useless to all but the most talented in other words.
NORTHUMBERLAND VS. A sandbag with the hard moves at the start based on the fact that all routes in Northumberland are graded to exclude the first 10 feet. Thus a Northumberland VS may have 3 moves of 6c to start and still be a VS under their grading system. [Richard Furlong]
NUT. The simplest form of protection. A metal wedge threaded on steel wires, intended to go into cracks and stay there. The name comes from the practice of 1950s climbers, who used motorcycle nuts.
NUT KEY. Thin tool with a hooked end used by a second for removing gear, especially nuts, jammed into cracks. For a few pictures, see this Google image search. [Brian Grey, on his first visit to the site - how did everyone else miss this one for so long?!]
[Some Mans Joy? VS 5a, 2 kb]
An offwidth
OFFWIDTH. The most awkward width of crack: too wide for fist jamming, but too narrow to chimney. Exotic techniques for climbing them include hand stacks, heel-toe locks, knee bars, "chicken wings", and "Leavittation", but most climbers prefer to grunt, swear and thrash around, which we are reliably informed does no good at all.
ONSIGHT. To climb a route free with no beta, without falls, without prior inspection, from bottom to top. The "purest" way to do a route. (The ultra-pure onsight is done nude, possibly at night.) [Adam Palmer.] Any route which is led first time, with no falls. To be a true onsight the climber must not have seen anyone else perform the moves. [Wil Treasure]
OVERHANG. An area of the rock face where the top protrudes further than the bottom thus allowing gravity to come into play to an even greater degree than usual. Requires good technique to overcome. An ideal area for decking out, if it's close enough to the ground and that's your thing.
PEG. A piton.
PENDULUM. 1. swinging on a length of rope in order to obtain a distant hold: a facet of aid climbing; 2. falling after climbing far to the left or right of the last runner, causing a swing. [Martin Brierley]
PIECE. Item of protection; the phrase "piece of protection" is often shortened just to "piece" (as in "That's the last piece before the top").
PITCH. A section of a climb, or the whole thing. Some climbing is "single-pitch", and some is "multi-pitch". Both versions require a good belay at the top; multi-pitch routes require good belays between pitches.
PINKPOINT. To climb a bolted route after inspecting it, placing all of the quickdraws and maybe practicing individual moves on a toprope. [Michele McIntyre]
PITON. Piece of metal which can be hammered into a crack to act as protection. The end of the piton has an eye where a karabiner can be clipped. In Britain, "knife blade pitons" are most often encountered in seams that are too thin or the wrong shape to take a nut, but they go up in size through "right angle pitons" to massive "bongs". Often found on sea cliffs, where their trustworthiness is in inverse proportion to how badly you need them.
PINCH. Like a sidepull but with two sides; that is, a hold which can be pinched between thumb and finger.
PLACEMENT. The place in the rockface (or sometimes things like trees growing off it) where protection is actually placed. The ideal is a sinker. Choosing among different alternatives, and finding the best and most efficient placements (in time taken to place them, gear required and final bombproofness) distinguishes the good leader from the bad or average.
POCKET. A hole in the rock face which can be used as a hold. See also monodoigt and bucket. The next up from this is probably "cave"!
PRO. Short for protection.
PROBLEM. Natural or artificial (especially at a wall or when bouldering) layout of holds presenting an obstacle between you and the top. Usually requires more than brute force to overcome.
PROTECTION. Also known as gear, The devices that climbers use to prevent themselves from decking out.
PRUSIK (noun) A piece of cord which is wound around the rope and grips when weighted. Can be used as an ascender or to safeguard an abseil. See this page for a picture [link opens in new window]. (verb) To ascend the rope using prusiks. [Hil McMillan]
PUMP. The extreme forearm fatigue (caused by buildup of lactic acid in the muscles) that is your body's way of telling you go to the pub, or that you've been to the pub too often recently. So-called because your forearms feel as though they've been pumped up, or had wet concrete poured into them which has set. [Tony Buckley]
QUICKDRAW. Two snap-gate karabiners linked by a short sling equals one quickdraw. Used to connect protection to the rope when leading a traditional1 route, or to clip bolts when sport climbing.
RACK. A collection of gear, usually attached to loops on a harness.
RAMP. A rising diagonal piece of rock, usually used for foot holds.
REDPOINT. Leading a bolted route after inspecting it, and maybe after practising individual moves on a toprope. Originally, if the quickdraws were preplaced, this would be called a pinkpoint; for a redpoint, the leader would have to place the quickdraws as they went. However, preplaced quickdraws have now become the norm and now would be known as a redpoint. [Michele McIntyre] Derived from German Rotpunkt. The word came in to common usage in the Frankenjura in the 1970s: it originated from the practice of painting a small red circle at the bottom of a climb that had been climbed without aid. Kurt Albert and others started the trend. [Julian Mecklenburgh]
A sport route which is led after watching others, rehearsing moves on toprope, or simply any sport lead where moves have been done before (in the event of a fall). See also cheating, headpoint. [Wil Treasure]
RIPPED. (1) v. "His gear ripped out" - means that protection placed by a climber (generally, the leader)) pulled out of the places where it was put. This can be either because the placements were bad, or the forces on the gear when the rope came tight actually pulled it upwards, lifting the gear out - which in effect is "bad placement". (To avoid this, the first piece of protection placed on a pitch should be able to take an upward as well as downward, and directly outward, force. [Michele McIntyre]
(2) adj. A "ripped" person has extremely low body fat and visiblly superior muscle definition, usually on their back, abdomen, shoulders and/or arms. Ripped indivuals are commonly spotted at climbing walls or bouldering crags with their tops off strutting their stuff. [Patricia Novelli]
[Yan Thomson on the rockover on Body Machine at Raven Tor, 1 kb]
A rockover move
ROCKOVER. Complex but enormously satisfying move that requires pushing the bodyweight over one raised knee in order to reach up to a handhold that is otherwise out of reach. Quintessential routes requiring rockovers: Downhill Racer at Froggatt, Void at Tremadog.
ROCK RASH. Severe allergic reaction caused by poor technique. The more common form of gritstone rash. [Tony Buckley]
ROOF. The steepest kind of overhang.
ROPE. The thing which (we hope) separates you from decking out and the consequent trip to the hospital or the next world. Will treat you as well as you treat it, except it won't send you flowers in hospital. Or to your funeral. Comes in two flavours, static and dynamic: you want a dynamic one if you're leading. (It's springy.) Also comes in two varieties, dry and, um, not dry: the dry one stays drier (in, say, winter climbing).
RP. A tiny nut on wire designed to fit in the tiniest of cracks where standard nuts are too fat. Being tiny, it won't (one thinks) take a big fall, which makes doing a route that needs RPs for protection a mental game too. RPs are so named because they are hand-made by Rowland Pauligk, who designed them for the climbs in the Arapiles in Australia, where he climbs. He still makes them in his garage. And that's true.
RUNNEL. A groove in an otherwise featureless area of rock, cause by water erosion (or, in old quarries, by quarrymen drilling and inserting explosives). [Andrew Meldrum]
RUNNER. A point of protection that allows the free movement of the rope - unlike a tie off, or belay stance, both of which anchor it. [Martin Brierley]
RUN OUT (also RUNOUT). Leading high above your last piece of protection. As in: "You're getting very run out" and "That route has a long runout". [Andrew Wylie]
SANDBAG. (noun) A route whose grade belies its difficulty. This can be either because it is undergraded, or requires a trick move to overcome the crux. Or it's just more work than it looks. (verb) To point someone at a route that is a sandbag, saying things like "It's only HVS" (unsaid: but requires the skills of an E3 climber). While the grading may get sorted out over time, trick moves tend to keep their grade. Classic example: Verandah Buttress, Stanage (supposedly VD 5b, but harder than 5b!).
SCREAMER. A rather larger and faster than average leader fall. [Richard Furlong]
SEAM. A very thin crack, one too small for any protection wider than a knife blade piton.
SECOND. The person who belays the leader, and gets the fun of taking out their protection on the way up. Being the second is generally less dangerous than leading, because you have a rope above you; except on traverses, when it can open you up to big swings if you fall off and the leader has not put in enough protection.
SEND. American for "climb". Must have originated in California, though why and when is anyone's guess. Usage: "Dude, you really sent that problem." Generally applied to bouldering problems, to give some idea of intensity. Perhaps. Then again, perhaps they just found it easier to say.
SEQUENCE. Series of moves required to overcome a problem. [Tony Buckley]
SEWING MACHINE LEG. See disco leg. [Hil McMillan]
SHARP END. To be on the "sharp end" of the rope is to be the leader. [Hil McMillan]
SIDEPULL. A hold that points sideways; usually works best when used for some form of layback.
SINKER. A V-shaped groove in the rock, getting deeper further down, which is ideal for holding nuts placed as pro. Happily, water erosion has complied by producing such shapes in weathered rock over the millennia in countless locations.
SLAB. A generally flat expanse of rock face which is slightly to the relaxed side of vertical; often gives the illusion of being easy to climb. This impression usually comes unstuck about half way up, when you run out of protection and you get a bad attack of disco leg.
SLAP. Desperate grab for a handhold. Good climbers don't seem to do it when you watch them, but admit to it afterwards.
SLCD. Abbreviation for spring loaded camming device.
SLING. Loop of rope or tape, useful for racking gear or looping around chockstones for protection.
SLOPER. Sloping hold. Best use involves staying well below it. Good climbing involves being able to make the best possible use of slopers and crimps.
SMEARING. The technique of using the flat soles of the feet to apply direct pressure onto the rock where only extremely small holds or no holds at all exist. Heroes smear! (Except on gritstone, where everyone must.)
SOLO. To climb without ropes. High-risk; carries the near-certainty of decking out if you mess things up. Enormously satisfying when it works, though possibly not for observers. Americans call this "free soloing" to distinguish it from "roped soloing" (climbing on your own but using ropes).
SPORT. Short for sport climbing.
SPORT CLIMBING. Climbing on routes which use bolts.
[MC on Brenva. CH and TM spotting, 1 kb]
Spotting
SPOT. To position yourself to catch, deflect or otherwise reduce the momentum of a falling soloist. Self-interest on the part of the spotter usually means the soloist is not too far off the ground at the time. The ideal spotter is fat, soft, slightly inflatable and can move very quickly into position. Most climbers aren't and can't, which is why bouldering mats are such big business. [Tony Buckley]
SPRAG. See thumb sprag.
SPRING LOADED CAMMING DEVICE. Friends were the first brand but there are many variations. An SLCD has four (in smaller versions, two or three) rounded cams which are forced apart by a spring. To place them you contract the spring, then release it, putting the cam faces into contact with the rock. It's impossible to believe they will work until you fall onto one, after which you use them relentlessly. However, SLCDs can exert huge sideways forces when fallen on: beware if you place one behind an expanding flake.
STATIC ROPE. Compared to a dynamic rope, a static rope does not significantly stretch when loaded. Used for abseiling, hauling or toproping; disastrous for leading because all the impact is transferred to the falling climber. [Lindsay Davies]
STEM. American for bridge. [Robin Mueller] Honestly, you'd think they were talking a whole different language or something.
STICHT PLATE. A belay device where the friction of passing the rope through two 180-degree turns holds the leader. Easy to use and teach.
STOMACH TRAVERSE. A belly traverse.
STOPPER KNOT. Or just "stopper"; a knot in the tail of a rope that prevents it from slipping through and keeps it out of the way. Used after tying the rope to your harness with a figure of eight, or on the your ropes before you abseil so you can't slip off the ends. Good stopper knots are the overhand and double overhand knots.
TAIL. The dangling end of rope left over after tying a knot. Tidy it away with a stopper knot.
TAPE. Long, thin, flat fabric. When made of Nylon or Spectra it is very strong and is used to make harnesses and slings.
TAPING UP Wrapping white gymnastic tape around the parts of the hand/fingers where friction usually causesGritstone rash. Mostly used forhand jammingin cracks.
TAT. Weather-beaten and ragged slings, left behind on belays, bolts, chockstones and threads. Often to be treated with extreme caution. On longer routes that you may have to abseil off, take up some tat with you that you can use for an anchor and leave behind, rather than leaving more expensive nuts etc. [Lindsay Davies]
THANK GOD HOLD. A hold that is reassuringly large and easy to rest on after a period of exciting climbing.
THREAD. A hole in the rock, or behind a chockstone, which can be used for protection by threading a sling through it. Also: the sling threaded through the hole. [Hil McMillan]
THRUTCH. A traditional2 technique marking the triumph of determination over style. Employed in chimneys, offwidths and other places you (or your clothes, or knees) would be better off avoiding. [Tony Buckley]
THUMB SPRAG. Esoteric technique of using any available edge in a crack. When a crack is too thin to actually fit the fingers in, you can still gain some purchase with thumb sprags (which, confusingly, also involve the fingers). For example, with the right hand, make a half-fist. Now push the four fingers against the right-hand (nearer your wrist) side of the crack, and the thumb against the left-hand side. Amazingly, this can work at least to keep you on balance. Requires very strong hands to be used for any length of time. Derivation perhaps from sprag clutches, which you can read about (with diagrams!) here [link opens in new window].
TOPPING OUT. Reaching the top of the climb and clambering stylishly onto the top of the crag whilst the camera shutters click below. Alternatively a desperate and undignified scramble for the top of the climb using arms, legs, belly, teeth, rope, gear and anything else which will assist the process. Delete as appropriate.
TOPROPE. To climb with a rope above you, usually attached to a belay at the top of the climb, thus avoiding the difficulties, dangers and delights of leading.
TRAD. Short for traditional1.
TRADITIONAL1. Climbing where the leader places protection as they go up.
TRADITIONAL2. In guidebook speak, a route climbed a long time ago, often a sandbag or a thrutch.
TRAVERSE. To move across the rock, left, right or possibly diagonally in either direction, rather than directly upwards.
UDGE. When you are at the limits of desperate climbing and you just need a little more of this to succeed. It can be very frustrating when you run out of udge. See also thrutch. [Dave Sheffield]
UNDERCUT. An undercling.
UNDERCLING. A hold which must be grasped from its underside to be used to best effect.
WALL. A vertical piece of rock. If less steep it would be a slab; if steeper, an overhang.
WANGER. A huge fall. [Robin Mueller]
WIRE. Short for nut on wire. [Patricia Novelli]
WIRE BRUSHING. Cleaning the rock with a wire brush. Generally frowned on by the climbing community, apart from the selfish ones, because it damages the rock (especially gritstone, which often has a surprisingly thin protective layer but erodes rapidly when this is destroyed). [Robin Mueller]
WIRED. To have a route "wired" means to have its moves completely figured out, usually through practice or by watching someone else on it. [Patricia Novelli]
YO-YO. To climb a route in a style where, if you fall off, you return to the ground, leaving all your protection in place and then start climbing again after a rest. The yo-yo refers to the repeated up and down movement of the climber who falls off more than once on a hard move. A common style of ascent in the 1970s and early 1980s, before the preferred style became redpointing.
[Huntsman's Leap in Pembrokeshire, with a rare covering of sand at is base., 1 kb]
A zawn
ZAWN. Small steep-sided channel of sea, the sides of which often provide climbing. Primary use is to get climbers wet by turning small waves into big ones and projecting them upwards. For added amusement, it is possible to jump or bridge across some (as in the route Kinkyboots at Baggy Point); however this is not recommended or even possible for others (such as Wen Zawn in Anglesey). [Crispin]
ZIPPER When all or most of the ill-placed protection comes away from the face of the climb by the leader when taking a fall. Usually results in a crater. [Louis Joyce]
ZONE(1) To be "in the zone" is to be in THE perfect mental state for climbing. Some climbers can consciously achieve this state through meditation. [Patricia Novelli]
(2) DEATH ZONE - above 8,000m. High-altitude mountaineers know this as the height above which there is not enough oxygen to keep the body alive; either bottled oxygen or remarkable fitness are needed to survive it.
ABSEIL. To descend a rope using a descender or maybe with just the rope round your body (a classic abseil). Potentially lethal; the cause of more deaths than actually climbing upwards. Often abbreviated to AB. (Americans call it "rapelling" and shorten it to "rap".) [Hil McMillan]
ADVENTURE CLIMBING. What the British regard as normal and the French generally see as idiotique: anything traditional2, scary or otherwise likely to result in broken and shattered bits. What we love. [Dave Sheffield]
AID CLIMBING. Climbing using gear for resting or making progress. Covers everything from a brief rest on the rope on an otherwise traditional1 ascent to bolt ladders and étriers.
ALPINE START. Getting up earlier than about 5 am. So-called because climbers in the Alps tend to start early to avoid the queues or melting snow or simply because sleeping in a dormitory full of snoring Germans is a non-starter anyway. [Richard Furlong]
ARÊTE. An outward pointing bit of rock; a ridge or rib. Not to be confused with a corner.
ASCENDER. A device for climbing the rope when all else fails, or even, occasionally, by design. May be a simple prusik or more or less sophisticated mechanical device. [Mike Swann]
BACK AND FOOT. A technique for climbing chimneys where you put your back on one wall and push your feet against the opposite wall.
BARN DOOR. To swing round, away from the rock, when all your holds are on one side of your body; especially likely when laybacking an arête. Usually experienced where the hands and feet are on the same vertical surface, or the hands are holding something beyond the feet.
BELAY. (noun) A place where you attach yourself to the rock. This can either be done briefly (during a climb, you put in protection to create a "running belay" that the rope is clipped to) or more long-term, between pitches. In the latter case, the belay should involve many independent connections to the rock (or other immovable objects) that can bear a shockload of one or both climbers falling off. (verb) To protect another climber by preventing the rope from slipping; either with a belay device or with a body belay.
BELAY DEVICE. A piece of equipment which you use to control the rope when belaying. Belay devices include "belay tubes" (many brands), the Figure eight, the Gri-gri, and the Sticht plate.
BELLY TRAVERSE. A traverse that involves wriggling on your belly to get from one side of a shelf to the other (because the shelf isn't high enough to let you stand up). Done well, looks very professional, as it enables hands and feet off rest. Done badly, is the source of much amusement for watchers. Most people do it badly. Also known as a stomach traverse. [Ian Redmond]
BETA. Knowledge of trick moves or protection or just about anything about a route available before you start. Initially from the US, possibly from "Betamax" (early videotape format). If you get the beta on a route, you shouldn't encounter any nasty surprises. However, knowing the beta also negates the ideal onsight. Some purists argue that even route descriptions in guidebooks constitute beta, though this makes it hard to know how you could knowingly climb the route.
BODY BELAY. A belay performed by wrapping the rope around the body to provide friction should the climber fall. Painful. [Hil McMillan]
BOLD. Guidebook speak for unprotected, that is, no protection. [Tony Buckley]
BOLT. An expansion bolt (think: a big metal Rawlplug) fixed permanently into the rock face to protect a climb, thus removing the adventure climbing aspect. Used widely in France and other parts of the Continent; used sparingly (on average) in the UK, but some crags (such as Portland or Lower Pen Trwyn or some Welsh slate) are almost entirely bolt-protected. Arguments about bolts are unceasing on climbing discussion boards, and outside too. Bolts are the "murderers of the impossible" according to Reinholt Messner, but it's unarguable that sport climbing has played a key part in pushing climbing standards.
BOLT LADDER. A sequence of bolts used to overcome a blank section of rock.
BOMBER, BOMBPROOF. (Of holds, or gear) very good; could withstand the fabled bomb hitting them.
BOULDERING. Relatively low height climbing, often very technical, usually solo. Usually climbing is on boulders (hence the name), but the more technical starts of routes are often "bouldered" as well, without ropes or protection, except for a bouldering mat. [Lindsay Davies]
[Now that's how to carry a bouldering mat!, 1 kb]
Bouldering mats
BOULDERING MAT. A mattress sized foam block for protecting falls while bouldering (and sometimes climbing). [Lindsay Davies]
BOWLINE. A knot, used as an alternative to the figure of eight to attach the rope to your harness. When used in the "double" form, three loops are created, allowing the raising or lowering of an injured casualty. The knot is more complicated to tie than the figure of eight (and so easier to tie wrongly, which can be disastrous) but some climbers prefer its increased secureness. Also easier to untie after having been loaded (by falling or toproping) than the figure of eight. See this page for a picture [link opens in new window]. [Adam Palmer]
BREAK. A horizontal crack.
BRIDGE. To climb a route by applying equal pressure with the feet and hands in opposite directions on opposing pieces of the rock face. Useful in chimneys, corners and grooves.
BUCKET. A huge jug which the whole hand can grasp. If it arrives at the right time it is a thank god hold.
BULGE. A small rounded overhang.
BUTTRESS. A large protruding face or area of a crag.
CAMPUS BOARD. Overhung board with thin (one joint or so) wooden holds; meant to be ascended without using the feet. Can destroy tendons astonishingly fast. The acme of achievement is "1-5-9" (double-handed dynos from the first to fifth to ninth hold).
CAMPUSING. Ascending a route (usually overhung) using only the hands, in the style of one training on a campus board. Can be used as a training technique and also for impressing the girls... [Wendy Allison]
CHIMNEY. A crack wide enough to fit your whole body into.
CHALK. White stuff (magnesium carbonate, in fact) intended to keep hands dry, though "to keep holds white" sometimes seems like a more realistic description. Not the same as teachers' chalk or gymnasts' resin.
CHEATING. In a "sport" which has no rules, and where death is always a distinct possibility, it's hard to say that cheating as such exists while on a route. Pulling on protection, falling off, escaping to another, easier route or simply retreating can all be wise in the event. These only become "cheating" if you deny them afterwards and inflate your claims, perhaps saying you flashed a route when in fact you fell, or rested on the gear. Even this can be irrelevant ? nobody cares if you made it up that HVS cleanly except, apparently, you ? unless such claims could endanger others. Honesty is thus highly prized among climbers, and the suggestion that someone did not climb a route cleanly or never reached the top is a great insult. With no rules, climbing relies on a web of ethics; without trust, the enjoyment goes. OK?
CHICKENHEAD. American term for small lump of intrusive rock which sticks out of a slab. [Richard Furlong]
CHIPPING. The artificial manufacturing of holds where none exist, or the wilful enlarging of existing holds. Punishable by being banished to Holland which is completely flat and has no decent rocks, once the people who caught you let you out of hospital.
CHOCKSTONE. A piece of rock which is jammed immovably in a crack. Can be used as a hold or threaded.
CLASSIC ABSEIL. An abseil performed without the use of harness and descender. Painful in shorts and t-shirt, expensive in new Goretex. [Hil McMillan]
CHOSS. Soil, dirt, rubble, stones, vegetation, in fact anything other than good clean stable rock. [Lindsay Davies]
CLEANING. The act of removing loose rock, plant life and gravel from a route which if left in situ would render the route unsafe for you, your second or both. Enthusiastic cleaning is hard to distinguish from chipping.
CLOVE HITCH. A twin loop knot, used when the force exacted on each side of the knot is considered to be equal, Some use this knot in conjunction with two half hitches or thumb knots to form the basis of a ground ancher. Often used when placings for gear-based anchors are missing, or to tie off ropes (say, doubled back from a belay anchor). See this page [link opens in new window] for a picture. [Adam Palmer]
COMBINED TACTICS. A Victorian climbing term which involves the leader standing on the shoulders of the second in order to start the pitch. Often useful with Northumberland VS routes. [Richard Furlong]
CORNER. The inverse of an arête; like the crease of an open book. The most beautiful example in the UK is Dinas Cromlech, cleaved at 90 degrees. A really deep groove is indistinguishable from a corner.
[super crack of the desert, 1 kb]
A crack
CRACK. A split or fissure in the rock face. Horizontal cracks are known as breaks; wide cracks may be offwidths or chimneys. A very thin crack that will not easily take protection is known as a seam; it may take a piton.
CRAG. Any large expanse of rock.
CRATER. The act of decking out. Not recommended. [Louis Joyce]
CRIMP. A small hold onto which you can just get the ends of your fingers (or toes!).
CRUX. The hardest move on a pitch or the hardest pitch on a climb.
DECKING OUT. Falling and hitting the ground, usually hurting oneself, through lack of protection. Not recommended. Also known as a Desmond (geddit?).
DEEP WATER SOLOING A climb carried out on a cliff that is situated above the sea. Done without gear as thedecking outis reduced in sting by landing in the deep water. [Louis Joyce]
DESCENDER. A friction device used when abseiling, such as a figure eight or a Sticht plate. [Mike Swann]
DESPERATE. The sort of route (or section of route) involving lots of adventure climbing and very little in the way of protection or holds. Usually involves a lot of swearing, anxiety and RPs. [Dave Sheffield]
DIHEDRAL. American phrase for an open book formation such as Dinas Cromlech; known at home as a corner. [Robin Mueller]
DISCO LEG. Uncontrollable shaking of one or both legs on a climb. Curable by pushing the heel of the leg downwards while the toe stays on the rock. Usually indicates imminent retreat, either voluntary or gravity-assisted.
DOGGING. Trying and failing repeatedly on a route, and using the gear that has been put in to pull oneself up to a previous high point. Can also mean any repeated attempt to get up a route which involves a great deal of hanging off the gear without returning to the ground (the latter being yo-yoing).
DOING AN ELVIS. See disco leg. [Bug Mitchell, Wendy Allison]
DYNAMIC ROPE. A rope that allows some stretch when loaded. This reduces the shock-loading to the system (and the climber), and therefore improves safety. As opposed to a static rope. [Lindsay Davies]
DYNO. A dynamic move (jumping) for an out-of-reach hold. Fun to try at the climbing wall, scary outside on lead. [Hil McMillan]
ELIMINATE. A route that doesn't take the most obvious line. Often a route between two obvious lines. [Lindsay Davies] (There is also some discussion of the definition in this thread though it doesn't come to much of a conclusion.)
ETHICS. The informal rules that govern how climbers climb and how they talk and write about their climbs. Rules of conservation preserve the natural environment of the rocks ("don't climb on Mississippi Buttress when the ring ouzels are nesting"); access to the rocks ("ask the military before climbing in firing ranges"); and the rocks themselves ("don't climb on sandstone in nailed boots"); the rule of honesty ? always report your style of ascent ? allows climbers to compare their abilities; and rules of style preserve the possibility of failure. Without the rules of style every climb could have a bolt every metre and every ascent could use aid when it got too hard. But then where would the challenge and interest be? To have challenge, you must have uncertainty, and that means denying yourself technical aids. Styles of ascent include aid climbing, yo-yoing, pinkpoint, redpoint, traditional1, flash, headpoint, onsight, and solo. See also cheating.
ÉTRIER. A small rope ladder, usually made of tape, used in aid climbing.
EXCITING. Guidebook speak for both bold and difficult. At some point before an "exciting" move you will have a brief meditation on life, and how it might shortly be coming to an end. The best way to tackle such moves is actually not in an excited frame of mind, but rather calmly. [Tony Buckley]
EXPANDING FLAKE. A flake that moves when pulled on, or which looks as if it might move or even detach completely if pulled hard enough (for example, by falling onto a Friend placed behind it).
EXPOSED. The kind of position where you suddenly realise how far away the ground has become; a route or move that takes you into such a position. [Tony Buckley]
EXTENDER. A quickdraw.
FALL FACTOR. A number describing the severity of a fall, calculated by dividing the distance fallen by the length of rope between the falling climber and the belay. The forces involved in a fall are roughly proportional to the climber's weight and the fall factor.
FIGURE EIGHT. A descender or belay device, named for its shape, and very popular on the Continent and with sport climbers. Its low friction means that it needs more expert handling than a Sticht plate or gri-gri. Sometimes used to mean figure of eight.
FIGURE OF EIGHT. The most commonly used knot to attach a climber to the rope. (Strictly, it is a rethreaded figure of eight.) Solid, unlikely to slip, easy to teach and learn, and easy to see when it is tied wrongly.
[Chouca at Buoux, 1 kb]
A figure of 4
FIGURE OF FOUR. Peculiar climbing move which you won't believe until you see or try it. Essential when you have a brilliant handhold but absolutely no footholds. With one hand on the hold, wrap the opposite leg over the holding wrist. With a good enough hold and enough flexibility, you can get the thigh over the wrist. From here it is possible to reach up to higher holds. Preferable to a dyno if the higher hold is not very good, as it keeps the body close to the wall. Most useful on vertical or overhanging routes. Increasingly used by competition ice climbers, who put their leg over their embedded ice axe.
FINGERBOARD A large piece of wood with individual strips of wood attached. Used by experienced climbers to increase the strength in their fingers by doing pull ups and moves without the aid of their feet. Potentially very bad for finger tendons and ligaments if tried when not completely warmed up. [Louis Joyce]
FLAG. To stick a foot out sideways for balance, especially when stopping yourself from barn dooring.
FLAKE. A partially detached section of rock which will often yield good holds along its detached edge. Beware! Some flakes are expanding.
FLAPPER. Horrible little loose bit of skin that hangs off your fingers, invariably following intense bouldering on sharp rock such as greywacke (eg Baring Head). [Wendy Allison]
FLASH. To climb a route without practice (but perhaps with beta) without falls on the first viewing and first attempt. (This is very similiar to onsight, which is even purer: no beta.) Opinion is divided as to what constitutes beta: to some people, even knowing the route's grade makes an ascent a flash rather than an onsight. Also sometimes prepended to "git" when someone achieves this feat. [Adam Palmer]
FLEXIBLE FRIEND. A friend whose long thin stem (between the business end inserted into the rock, and the end where you attach your karabiner and rope) is made of wire cable instead of solid metal. If you fall off, the stem can bend, rather than being stressed over any protruding bits of rock.
FLYING LESSON. What a light-weight second gets when he hasn't anchored himself and his heavier leader takes a fall. [Mike Swann]
FREE CLIMBING. Progressing up a route by using your body rather than the gear. [Martin Brierley]
FRIEND. Brand name for the first make of spring loaded camming device, originally patented by Ray Jardine in 1978 (US patent 4,184,657) and now manufactured by Wild Country; loosely, any brand of SLCD. Its invention revolutionised rock climbing because it meant that climbs with parallel cracks could be protected.
GARDENING. Cleaning a potential route in such an aggressive manner that it verges on chipping.
GASTON. Also known as the "lift-opener". Inelegant but sometimes necessary manoeuvre where the fingers of both hands are placed in a crack as if to pull it apart by brute strength. Very tiring; hard to stay balanced. Can be required in shallow cracks where there is no chance of jamming or laybacking for some reason. Named after French climber Gaston Rébuffat.
GEAR. See protection.
GRADE. How difficult it is to climb something. A complete discussion of grades is far beyond this article (see instead our articles on English grading and Bouldering grading). Grades and grading systems are a source of constant dispute, even more than bolts, despite the fact that all climbs fall into two categories: can do and can't do.
GRI-GRI. A belay device which automatically locks when the leader of a climb pulls very hard on the rope. This can happen when they fall off, and less conveniently when they urgently need some extra rope.
GRIPPED. Terrified, unable to move, gripping the rock for dear life.
GRITSTONE RASH. Obvious hand injuries caused by jamming on God's own rock. [Hil McMillan]
GROOVE. Not foot-tapping rhythmic music, but rather, a long indentation in the rock face which is neither deep enough to be a crack nor defined enough to be a corner .
GUIDEBOOK SPEAK. The idiosyncratic language of climbing guides: bold, delicate, exciting, interesting, thoughtful, traditional2.
HARNESS. Combination of waist loop and leg loops, with belay loop and gear loops that climbers wear when not soloing. Should be comfortable for hanging around at belays.
HELMET. Useful device for preventing head injury and for protecting sandwiches during the walk-in. [Hil McMillan]
HEADPOINT. A traditional1 route which is led after (toprope) practice, sometimes with preplaced protection. Sometimes thought to be a modern affliction for routes over E8, though it was clearly already in use in Joe Brown's day in the 1950s; see the first ascent description for Brown's Eliminate (E2 5b), which talks of careful practice in the days of nailed boots. The traditional equivalent of a redpoint. [Michele McIntyre, Wil Treasure]
[Simon Chandler with the confident heelhook approach to Orpheus Wall, 2 kb]
A heel hook
HEEL HOOK. The act of bringing one of your feet up to chest height and 'hooking' it onto a hold. Good for reaching otherwise out-of-reach holds with your free hand. Suppleness usually a help. [Louis Joyce]
HEX. Not a spell, but a hexagonal-shaped aluminium piece of protection. Very effective in a crack or a break, though many people nowadays prefers friends to do the same job. (But a hex costs half as much as a friend.) Also known as a cowbell, for the noise that a collection makes on a climber's harness.
HIGHBALL. (American) term used to describe higher and more serious bouldering problems. [Robin Mueller]
HOLD. Any feature of the natural rockface which assists the climber's upward motion.
IN SITU. Latin for "in place". Guidebooks always recommend that you back up a piece of in situ protection (such as a piton or sling) with separate protection of your own. This is usually also impossible, as the reason the in situ gear was put there was because there the first ascensionist had no other option.
ITALIAN HITCH. Knot used to belay or abseil. Also known as a Münter hitch. Recommended when you have dropped your Sticht plate down the crag. Not recommended for multiple abseils as it twists the rope.
INTERESTING. Guidebook speak for puzzling, often extremely so. The reverse applies for spectators. Sometimes (sloppily) used interchangeably with exciting, so beware. [Tony Buckley]
JUG. An excellent handhold.
JAMMING. The best forgotten art. The technique of inserting part (or all) of the body into a crack to make progress. Thin cracks take fingers, wider cracks take hands and fists, and feared offwidth cracks devour arms, shoulders, knees, feet and legs and spit them out covered with gritstone rash.
KARABINER. An oval metal hoop with a springloaded "gate". Rope and protection are attached to karabiners. Also known as a "krab". Karabiners come in many forms, and arguments about which is best occupy many hours in gear shops.
LAYAWAY. A technique for climbing on sidepulls where you lean away from the hold to improve your grip. (It really doesn't matter if it's raining or if it's fine just as long as you've got time to layaway-away-way layaway lay-lay-away way lay away layaway.)
LAYBACK. A technique for climbing on sidepulls (holds that point sideways, especially one edge of a crack or one side of an arête) by using legs and arms in opposition: pushing legs in one direction while pulling on the handholds in the other.
LEADER. The person going up the route first; the one who solves the conundrum of "how do you get the rope up there then?". Is followed by the second. Hence "lead a route" and "leading a route"
MANTELSHELF. American (mis)spelling of mantleshelf.
MANTLE. Short for mantleshelf.
MANTLESHELF. Technique used to establish yourself on a ledge below a blank piece of rock. Colin Kirkus used to practise the move on his mantleshelf at home, which he recommended as a good way of getting rid of fragile unwanted presents from female relatives. If you've never seen a mantleshelf because you live in a modern house with central heating, try visualising the stylish way of getting out of a swimming pool. [Tony Buckley]
Also: a move in which the climber attempts to stand on the same horizontal surface their hands are holding. Various techniques are possible, most amusing (and last desperate resort of an exhausted traditional1 leader) being the bellyflop. Used most often during topping out. [Robin Mueller]
MARE. "Having a mare" is having major issues when halfway up a route. [Bug Mitchell]
MONODOIGT. A small pocket, big enough for one finger. Virtually useless to all but the most talented in other words.
NORTHUMBERLAND VS. A sandbag with the hard moves at the start based on the fact that all routes in Northumberland are graded to exclude the first 10 feet. Thus a Northumberland VS may have 3 moves of 6c to start and still be a VS under their grading system. [Richard Furlong]
NUT. The simplest form of protection. A metal wedge threaded on steel wires, intended to go into cracks and stay there. The name comes from the practice of 1950s climbers, who used motorcycle nuts.
NUT KEY. Thin tool with a hooked end used by a second for removing gear, especially nuts, jammed into cracks. For a few pictures, see this Google image search. [Brian Grey, on his first visit to the site - how did everyone else miss this one for so long?!]
[Some Mans Joy? VS 5a, 2 kb]
An offwidth
OFFWIDTH. The most awkward width of crack: too wide for fist jamming, but too narrow to chimney. Exotic techniques for climbing them include hand stacks, heel-toe locks, knee bars, "chicken wings", and "Leavittation", but most climbers prefer to grunt, swear and thrash around, which we are reliably informed does no good at all.
ONSIGHT. To climb a route free with no beta, without falls, without prior inspection, from bottom to top. The "purest" way to do a route. (The ultra-pure onsight is done nude, possibly at night.) [Adam Palmer.] Any route which is led first time, with no falls. To be a true onsight the climber must not have seen anyone else perform the moves. [Wil Treasure]
OVERHANG. An area of the rock face where the top protrudes further than the bottom thus allowing gravity to come into play to an even greater degree than usual. Requires good technique to overcome. An ideal area for decking out, if it's close enough to the ground and that's your thing.
PEG. A piton.
PENDULUM. 1. swinging on a length of rope in order to obtain a distant hold: a facet of aid climbing; 2. falling after climbing far to the left or right of the last runner, causing a swing. [Martin Brierley]
PIECE. Item of protection; the phrase "piece of protection" is often shortened just to "piece" (as in "That's the last piece before the top").
PITCH. A section of a climb, or the whole thing. Some climbing is "single-pitch", and some is "multi-pitch". Both versions require a good belay at the top; multi-pitch routes require good belays between pitches.
PINKPOINT. To climb a bolted route after inspecting it, placing all of the quickdraws and maybe practicing individual moves on a toprope. [Michele McIntyre]
PITON. Piece of metal which can be hammered into a crack to act as protection. The end of the piton has an eye where a karabiner can be clipped. In Britain, "knife blade pitons" are most often encountered in seams that are too thin or the wrong shape to take a nut, but they go up in size through "right angle pitons" to massive "bongs". Often found on sea cliffs, where their trustworthiness is in inverse proportion to how badly you need them.
PINCH. Like a sidepull but with two sides; that is, a hold which can be pinched between thumb and finger.
PLACEMENT. The place in the rockface (or sometimes things like trees growing off it) where protection is actually placed. The ideal is a sinker. Choosing among different alternatives, and finding the best and most efficient placements (in time taken to place them, gear required and final bombproofness) distinguishes the good leader from the bad or average.
POCKET. A hole in the rock face which can be used as a hold. See also monodoigt and bucket. The next up from this is probably "cave"!
PRO. Short for protection.
PROBLEM. Natural or artificial (especially at a wall or when bouldering) layout of holds presenting an obstacle between you and the top. Usually requires more than brute force to overcome.
PROTECTION. Also known as gear, The devices that climbers use to prevent themselves from decking out.
PRUSIK (noun) A piece of cord which is wound around the rope and grips when weighted. Can be used as an ascender or to safeguard an abseil. See this page for a picture [link opens in new window]. (verb) To ascend the rope using prusiks. [Hil McMillan]
PUMP. The extreme forearm fatigue (caused by buildup of lactic acid in the muscles) that is your body's way of telling you go to the pub, or that you've been to the pub too often recently. So-called because your forearms feel as though they've been pumped up, or had wet concrete poured into them which has set. [Tony Buckley]
QUICKDRAW. Two snap-gate karabiners linked by a short sling equals one quickdraw. Used to connect protection to the rope when leading a traditional1 route, or to clip bolts when sport climbing.
RACK. A collection of gear, usually attached to loops on a harness.
RAMP. A rising diagonal piece of rock, usually used for foot holds.
REDPOINT. Leading a bolted route after inspecting it, and maybe after practising individual moves on a toprope. Originally, if the quickdraws were preplaced, this would be called a pinkpoint; for a redpoint, the leader would have to place the quickdraws as they went. However, preplaced quickdraws have now become the norm and now would be known as a redpoint. [Michele McIntyre] Derived from German Rotpunkt. The word came in to common usage in the Frankenjura in the 1970s: it originated from the practice of painting a small red circle at the bottom of a climb that had been climbed without aid. Kurt Albert and others started the trend. [Julian Mecklenburgh]
A sport route which is led after watching others, rehearsing moves on toprope, or simply any sport lead where moves have been done before (in the event of a fall). See also cheating, headpoint. [Wil Treasure]
RIPPED. (1) v. "His gear ripped out" - means that protection placed by a climber (generally, the leader)) pulled out of the places where it was put. This can be either because the placements were bad, or the forces on the gear when the rope came tight actually pulled it upwards, lifting the gear out - which in effect is "bad placement". (To avoid this, the first piece of protection placed on a pitch should be able to take an upward as well as downward, and directly outward, force. [Michele McIntyre]
(2) adj. A "ripped" person has extremely low body fat and visiblly superior muscle definition, usually on their back, abdomen, shoulders and/or arms. Ripped indivuals are commonly spotted at climbing walls or bouldering crags with their tops off strutting their stuff. [Patricia Novelli]
[Yan Thomson on the rockover on Body Machine at Raven Tor, 1 kb]
A rockover move
ROCKOVER. Complex but enormously satisfying move that requires pushing the bodyweight over one raised knee in order to reach up to a handhold that is otherwise out of reach. Quintessential routes requiring rockovers: Downhill Racer at Froggatt, Void at Tremadog.
ROCK RASH. Severe allergic reaction caused by poor technique. The more common form of gritstone rash. [Tony Buckley]
ROOF. The steepest kind of overhang.
ROPE. The thing which (we hope) separates you from decking out and the consequent trip to the hospital or the next world. Will treat you as well as you treat it, except it won't send you flowers in hospital. Or to your funeral. Comes in two flavours, static and dynamic: you want a dynamic one if you're leading. (It's springy.) Also comes in two varieties, dry and, um, not dry: the dry one stays drier (in, say, winter climbing).
RP. A tiny nut on wire designed to fit in the tiniest of cracks where standard nuts are too fat. Being tiny, it won't (one thinks) take a big fall, which makes doing a route that needs RPs for protection a mental game too. RPs are so named because they are hand-made by Rowland Pauligk, who designed them for the climbs in the Arapiles in Australia, where he climbs. He still makes them in his garage. And that's true.
RUNNEL. A groove in an otherwise featureless area of rock, cause by water erosion (or, in old quarries, by quarrymen drilling and inserting explosives). [Andrew Meldrum]
RUNNER. A point of protection that allows the free movement of the rope - unlike a tie off, or belay stance, both of which anchor it. [Martin Brierley]
RUN OUT (also RUNOUT). Leading high above your last piece of protection. As in: "You're getting very run out" and "That route has a long runout". [Andrew Wylie]
SANDBAG. (noun) A route whose grade belies its difficulty. This can be either because it is undergraded, or requires a trick move to overcome the crux. Or it's just more work than it looks. (verb) To point someone at a route that is a sandbag, saying things like "It's only HVS" (unsaid: but requires the skills of an E3 climber). While the grading may get sorted out over time, trick moves tend to keep their grade. Classic example: Verandah Buttress, Stanage (supposedly VD 5b, but harder than 5b!).
SCREAMER. A rather larger and faster than average leader fall. [Richard Furlong]
SEAM. A very thin crack, one too small for any protection wider than a knife blade piton.
SECOND. The person who belays the leader, and gets the fun of taking out their protection on the way up. Being the second is generally less dangerous than leading, because you have a rope above you; except on traverses, when it can open you up to big swings if you fall off and the leader has not put in enough protection.
SEND. American for "climb". Must have originated in California, though why and when is anyone's guess. Usage: "Dude, you really sent that problem." Generally applied to bouldering problems, to give some idea of intensity. Perhaps. Then again, perhaps they just found it easier to say.
SEQUENCE. Series of moves required to overcome a problem. [Tony Buckley]
SEWING MACHINE LEG. See disco leg. [Hil McMillan]
SHARP END. To be on the "sharp end" of the rope is to be the leader. [Hil McMillan]
SIDEPULL. A hold that points sideways; usually works best when used for some form of layback.
SINKER. A V-shaped groove in the rock, getting deeper further down, which is ideal for holding nuts placed as pro. Happily, water erosion has complied by producing such shapes in weathered rock over the millennia in countless locations.
SLAB. A generally flat expanse of rock face which is slightly to the relaxed side of vertical; often gives the illusion of being easy to climb. This impression usually comes unstuck about half way up, when you run out of protection and you get a bad attack of disco leg.
SLAP. Desperate grab for a handhold. Good climbers don't seem to do it when you watch them, but admit to it afterwards.
SLCD. Abbreviation for spring loaded camming device.
SLING. Loop of rope or tape, useful for racking gear or looping around chockstones for protection.
SLOPER. Sloping hold. Best use involves staying well below it. Good climbing involves being able to make the best possible use of slopers and crimps.
SMEARING. The technique of using the flat soles of the feet to apply direct pressure onto the rock where only extremely small holds or no holds at all exist. Heroes smear! (Except on gritstone, where everyone must.)
SOLO. To climb without ropes. High-risk; carries the near-certainty of decking out if you mess things up. Enormously satisfying when it works, though possibly not for observers. Americans call this "free soloing" to distinguish it from "roped soloing" (climbing on your own but using ropes).
SPORT. Short for sport climbing.
SPORT CLIMBING. Climbing on routes which use bolts.
[MC on Brenva. CH and TM spotting, 1 kb]
Spotting
SPOT. To position yourself to catch, deflect or otherwise reduce the momentum of a falling soloist. Self-interest on the part of the spotter usually means the soloist is not too far off the ground at the time. The ideal spotter is fat, soft, slightly inflatable and can move very quickly into position. Most climbers aren't and can't, which is why bouldering mats are such big business. [Tony Buckley]
SPRAG. See thumb sprag.
SPRING LOADED CAMMING DEVICE. Friends were the first brand but there are many variations. An SLCD has four (in smaller versions, two or three) rounded cams which are forced apart by a spring. To place them you contract the spring, then release it, putting the cam faces into contact with the rock. It's impossible to believe they will work until you fall onto one, after which you use them relentlessly. However, SLCDs can exert huge sideways forces when fallen on: beware if you place one behind an expanding flake.
STATIC ROPE. Compared to a dynamic rope, a static rope does not significantly stretch when loaded. Used for abseiling, hauling or toproping; disastrous for leading because all the impact is transferred to the falling climber. [Lindsay Davies]
STEM. American for bridge. [Robin Mueller] Honestly, you'd think they were talking a whole different language or something.
STICHT PLATE. A belay device where the friction of passing the rope through two 180-degree turns holds the leader. Easy to use and teach.
STOMACH TRAVERSE. A belly traverse.
STOPPER KNOT. Or just "stopper"; a knot in the tail of a rope that prevents it from slipping through and keeps it out of the way. Used after tying the rope to your harness with a figure of eight, or on the your ropes before you abseil so you can't slip off the ends. Good stopper knots are the overhand and double overhand knots.
TAIL. The dangling end of rope left over after tying a knot. Tidy it away with a stopper knot.
TAPE. Long, thin, flat fabric. When made of Nylon or Spectra it is very strong and is used to make harnesses and slings.
TAPING UP Wrapping white gymnastic tape around the parts of the hand/fingers where friction usually causesGritstone rash. Mostly used forhand jammingin cracks.
TAT. Weather-beaten and ragged slings, left behind on belays, bolts, chockstones and threads. Often to be treated with extreme caution. On longer routes that you may have to abseil off, take up some tat with you that you can use for an anchor and leave behind, rather than leaving more expensive nuts etc. [Lindsay Davies]
THANK GOD HOLD. A hold that is reassuringly large and easy to rest on after a period of exciting climbing.
THREAD. A hole in the rock, or behind a chockstone, which can be used for protection by threading a sling through it. Also: the sling threaded through the hole. [Hil McMillan]
THRUTCH. A traditional2 technique marking the triumph of determination over style. Employed in chimneys, offwidths and other places you (or your clothes, or knees) would be better off avoiding. [Tony Buckley]
THUMB SPRAG. Esoteric technique of using any available edge in a crack. When a crack is too thin to actually fit the fingers in, you can still gain some purchase with thumb sprags (which, confusingly, also involve the fingers). For example, with the right hand, make a half-fist. Now push the four fingers against the right-hand (nearer your wrist) side of the crack, and the thumb against the left-hand side. Amazingly, this can work at least to keep you on balance. Requires very strong hands to be used for any length of time. Derivation perhaps from sprag clutches, which you can read about (with diagrams!) here [link opens in new window].
TOPPING OUT. Reaching the top of the climb and clambering stylishly onto the top of the crag whilst the camera shutters click below. Alternatively a desperate and undignified scramble for the top of the climb using arms, legs, belly, teeth, rope, gear and anything else which will assist the process. Delete as appropriate.
TOPROPE. To climb with a rope above you, usually attached to a belay at the top of the climb, thus avoiding the difficulties, dangers and delights of leading.
TRAD. Short for traditional1.
TRADITIONAL1. Climbing where the leader places protection as they go up.
TRADITIONAL2. In guidebook speak, a route climbed a long time ago, often a sandbag or a thrutch.
TRAVERSE. To move across the rock, left, right or possibly diagonally in either direction, rather than directly upwards.
UDGE. When you are at the limits of desperate climbing and you just need a little more of this to succeed. It can be very frustrating when you run out of udge. See also thrutch. [Dave Sheffield]
UNDERCUT. An undercling.
UNDERCLING. A hold which must be grasped from its underside to be used to best effect.
WALL. A vertical piece of rock. If less steep it would be a slab; if steeper, an overhang.
WANGER. A huge fall. [Robin Mueller]
WIRE. Short for nut on wire. [Patricia Novelli]
WIRE BRUSHING. Cleaning the rock with a wire brush. Generally frowned on by the climbing community, apart from the selfish ones, because it damages the rock (especially gritstone, which often has a surprisingly thin protective layer but erodes rapidly when this is destroyed). [Robin Mueller]
WIRED. To have a route "wired" means to have its moves completely figured out, usually through practice or by watching someone else on it. [Patricia Novelli]
YO-YO. To climb a route in a style where, if you fall off, you return to the ground, leaving all your protection in place and then start climbing again after a rest. The yo-yo refers to the repeated up and down movement of the climber who falls off more than once on a hard move. A common style of ascent in the 1970s and early 1980s, before the preferred style became redpointing.
[Huntsman's Leap in Pembrokeshire, with a rare covering of sand at is base., 1 kb]
A zawn
ZAWN. Small steep-sided channel of sea, the sides of which often provide climbing. Primary use is to get climbers wet by turning small waves into big ones and projecting them upwards. For added amusement, it is possible to jump or bridge across some (as in the route Kinkyboots at Baggy Point); however this is not recommended or even possible for others (such as Wen Zawn in Anglesey). [Crispin]
ZIPPER When all or most of the ill-placed protection comes away from the face of the climb by the leader when taking a fall. Usually results in a crater. [Louis Joyce]
ZONE(1) To be "in the zone" is to be in THE perfect mental state for climbing. Some climbers can consciously achieve this state through meditation. [Patricia Novelli]
(2) DEATH ZONE - above 8,000m. High-altitude mountaineers know this as the height above which there is not enough oxygen to keep the body alive; either bottled oxygen or remarkable fitness are needed to survive it.
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da pietrorrrago » mer mag 10, 2006 23:50 pm
claudio1949 ha scritto:Wagoo ha scritto:Clean climbing nel senso senza utilizzo di alcun mezzo che alteri la roccia? Quindi anche classici chiodi esclusi?
Mi pare proprio di si. Martellando martellando (per mettere, per togliere) la roccia non rimane più clean come prima.
Esatto, il martello lo devi lasciare a casa.
Ha avuto negli anni passati un discreto successo su granito (in USA ancora oggi) ma non ha mai attecchito un gran chè da noi.
Per essere clean una via non deve avere ferro in loco, nemmeno alle soste e non mi risulta ci siano vie del genere dalle nostre parti
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da federicopiazzon » gio mag 11, 2006 2:52 am
Una difficile per drugo Marcos e venetofoni vari:
"Cakes in ass"
Qui vi voglio....
"Cakes in ass"
Qui vi voglio....
HASTA LA CUMBRE SIEMPRE!
daghe a lo spit!!!!!!!!
daghe a lo spit!!!!!!!!
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da yinyang » gio mag 11, 2006 10:58 am
Herman ha scritto:...
a mò!
a me interessa una traduzione dall'inglese all'italiano che non sia schifosa!!! non mi interessa l'elenco!
p.s.
comunque bastava il link
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da JoCaglia » gio mag 11, 2006 12:40 pm
ehm, ho letto solo velocemente, quindi spero di non rifilare una sola...
http://www.kong.it/lexis_E.htm#A
salud
http://www.kong.it/lexis_E.htm#A
salud
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da yinyang » gio mag 11, 2006 12:49 pm
JoCaglia ha scritto:ehm, ho letto solo velocemente, quindi spero di non rifilare una sola...
http://www.kong.it/lexis_E.htm#A
salud
bello!
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Re: Dizionario Inglese - Italiano per arrampicata
da Spider » gio mag 11, 2006 13:11 pm
non so se sono già state date tutte le "soluzioni", comunque ti scrivo quel che so io...
multipitch
traduzione:
- via di più tiri (indifferente se sportiva o alpinistica)
pitch
traduzione:
- tiro (sia mono- che multi-)
(per la via intera si usa il termine "route")
bouldering (questo è difficile)
traduzione:
- letteralmente "sassismo", più usato "fare blocchi", ma direi che alla fine dicono tutti Bouldering
resting
traduzione:
- letteralmente "riposarsi", in pratica "appendersi"
onsight
traduzione:
- a vista (inteso come salire in libera al primo colpo un itinerario sconosciuto)
redpoint
traduzione:
- salire in libera da primo mettendo su i rinvii
pinkpoint
traduzione:
- salire in libera da primo coi rinvii già messi
flash
traduzione:
- salire in libera al primo colpo un itinerario su cui si hanno già informazioni (Visto salire altra gente, gente che lo conosce che ti dà suggerimenti, etc)
toproping
traduzione:
- salire da secondo=con corda dall'alto=in moulinette
free climbing
traduzione:
- arrampicata libera=si sale sfruttando solo le strutture della roccia, corda rinvii e altri attrezzi sono usati solo per l'assicurazione, e non per la progressione.
free solo
traduzione:
- salita in arrampicata libera senza corda
clean climbing
traduzione:
- salire usando solo protezioni "pulite", che non danneggiano la roccia=fettucce, nut & friend, niente chiodi o spit.
Tipico dell'arrampicata inglese su gritstone (hanno talmente poca roccia, che per preservarla usano questo rigoroso codice etico).
multipitch
traduzione:
- via di più tiri (indifferente se sportiva o alpinistica)
pitch
traduzione:
- tiro (sia mono- che multi-)
(per la via intera si usa il termine "route")
bouldering (questo è difficile)
traduzione:
- letteralmente "sassismo", più usato "fare blocchi", ma direi che alla fine dicono tutti Bouldering
resting
traduzione:
- letteralmente "riposarsi", in pratica "appendersi"
onsight
traduzione:
- a vista (inteso come salire in libera al primo colpo un itinerario sconosciuto)
redpoint
traduzione:
- salire in libera da primo mettendo su i rinvii
pinkpoint
traduzione:
- salire in libera da primo coi rinvii già messi
flash
traduzione:
- salire in libera al primo colpo un itinerario su cui si hanno già informazioni (Visto salire altra gente, gente che lo conosce che ti dà suggerimenti, etc)
toproping
traduzione:
- salire da secondo=con corda dall'alto=in moulinette
free climbing
traduzione:
- arrampicata libera=si sale sfruttando solo le strutture della roccia, corda rinvii e altri attrezzi sono usati solo per l'assicurazione, e non per la progressione.
free solo
traduzione:
- salita in arrampicata libera senza corda
clean climbing
traduzione:
- salire usando solo protezioni "pulite", che non danneggiano la roccia=fettucce, nut & friend, niente chiodi o spit.
Tipico dell'arrampicata inglese su gritstone (hanno talmente poca roccia, che per preservarla usano questo rigoroso codice etico).
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da Herman » gio mag 11, 2006 13:11 pm
yinyang ha scritto:
p.s.
comunque bastava il link
eh no, se no come facevo ad uccidire il 3d
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Re: Dizionario Inglese - Italiano per arrampicata
da yinyang » gio mag 11, 2006 13:34 pm
Spider ha scritto:...
zio caro spider, non dirmi che proponi quando si parla fra amici di dirsi invece che
alè raga! ho fatto quel 6b+ flash! bella li!
con
alè raga! ho salito quel 6b+ in libera al primo colpo e non avevo già informazioni! bella li!
mi sa che non mi sono proprio spiegato...
il gioco è trovare una traduzione che sia bella e pratica in modo che venga usata al posto del fottuto inglese
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Re: Dizionario Inglese - Italiano per arrampicata
da Spider » gio mag 11, 2006 13:54 pm
yinyang ha scritto:Spider ha scritto:...
zio caro spider, non dirmi che
[...]
mi sa che non mi sono proprio spiegato...
no, effettivamente non avevo minimamente capito...
yinyang ha scritto:il gioco è trovare una traduzione che sia bella e pratica in modo che venga usata al posto del fottuto inglese
no way... usa il fottuto inglese!
d'altronde c'è di peggio, pensa che l'alternativa è il francese o il tedesco...
"...oh raga, dopo un mese che mi provavo quella via in moulinette, ieri finalmente sono riuscito a salirla rotpunkt! Sono troppo contento!"
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da yinyang » gio mag 11, 2006 14:02 pm
no vabbè intendiamoci, anche io uso un sacco di parole inglesi (soprattutto nel lavoro) ma quando queste sono davvero necessarie
quindi essenzialmente per due motivi:
1) lo stesso significato in italiano non si riesce a tradurre se non con una perifrasi
2) la corrispondente parola in italiano è orribile
il termine multi-pitch per esempio, mi sembra assolutamente ridicolo, perchè in italiano si dice via lunga, che è corta (
) e, almeno per me, molto più bella come suono
boulder invece è più difficile da tradurre: sassismo fa schifo
però blocco è figo per cui potrei usare quello
mi sono spiegato?
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da Mago del gelato » gio mag 11, 2006 19:40 pm
yinyang ha scritto::lol:
no vabbè intendiamoci, anche io uso un sacco di parole inglesi (soprattutto nel lavoro) ma quando queste sono davvero necessarie
1) lo stesso significato in italiano non si riesce a tradurre se non con una perifrasi
2) la corrispondente parola in italiano è orribile
il termine multi-pitch per esempio, mi sembra assolutamente ridicolo, perchè in italiano si dice via lunga, che è corta (
boulder invece è più difficile da tradurre: sassismo fa schifo
però blocco è figo per cui potrei usare quello
mi sono spiegato?
- Multipitch = Multitiro, che ci piaccia o no
- non vedo cosa ci sia di male in "Sassismo", si è sempre chiamato così in Italia finchè le riviste che fanno "tendenza" non hanno iniziato a deviare le menti degli scalatori
- Verbo Flashare: io flasho, tu flashi, egli flasha, noi flashamo, voi flashate, essi flashano.
Più italiano di così!
La liberazione dello spirito generò la liberazione del gesto, e nacque il Free Climbing
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da yinyang » ven mag 12, 2006 10:21 am
Mago del gelato ha scritto:- Multipitch = Multitiro, che ci piaccia o no
non ci piace infatti!
ma che ti ha fatto il termine italianissimo "via lunga", a me sembra così bello... tu dici "aiò ragazzi, domani vado a fare un multitiro?"
Mago del gelato ha scritto:- non vedo cosa ci sia di male in "Sassismo", si è sempre chiamato così in Italia finchè le riviste che fanno "tendenza" non hanno iniziato a deviare le menti degli scalatori
c'è di male che è bruttissimo
(e non dirmi che lo usi sul serio al di la del melloblocco )molto meglio "blocco", "fare blocchi"
ed è colpa delle riviste che invece di usare questo bel termine italiano usano "boulder" a sproposito
Mago del gelato ha scritto:- Verbo Flashare: io flasho, tu flashi, egli flasha, noi flashamo, voi flashate, essi flashano.
Più italiano di così!
si ma la radice è inglese e nun me piasce!
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da Mago del gelato » ven mag 12, 2006 11:26 am
yinyang ha scritto:Mago del gelato ha scritto:- Multipitch = Multitiro, che ci piaccia o no
non ci piace infatti!
tu dici "aiò ragazzi, domani vado a fare un multitiro?"
Ma infatti io dico "via di più tiri" oppure, ancora meglio, "via di tot. metri", perchè "via lunga" non significa niente, può essere un monotiro di 40 metri o la Cassin al Badile.
Bouldering: fare massi (blocchi è un altro termine che non mi piace, mi viene in mente la dieta Zona), scalare sui massi.
La liberazione dello spirito generò la liberazione del gesto, e nacque il Free Climbing
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da Paolo Marchiori » ven mag 12, 2006 11:57 am
1-Fuck: termine generico che presuppone rogne. Vedi anche Shit o motherfucker quest'ultimo riferito, più spesso, all'apritore della via che state scalando;
2-take: tipicamente Pipponclub, probabilmente verrà detto subito dopo la numero 1;
3-Sandbag (verbo o aggettivo): se sentite questo riguardo un'area...i temini 1 e 2 verranno usati moooolto spesso;
4-penalty slack cosa riceverete a posto del numero 2 se state sulle palle a chi vi fa sicura ;
5-Dirtbag: sotto sotto lo siamo un po' tutti;
6-Whipper: chiunque abbia visto "master of Stones" sa cosa significa...
7-Crater: cosa si dice al posto del 6 se si, ehmmm, atterra....
2-take: tipicamente Pipponclub, probabilmente verrà detto subito dopo la numero 1;
3-Sandbag (verbo o aggettivo): se sentite questo riguardo un'area...i temini 1 e 2 verranno usati moooolto spesso;
4-penalty slack cosa riceverete a posto del numero 2 se state sulle palle a chi vi fa sicura ;
5-Dirtbag: sotto sotto lo siamo un po' tutti;
6-Whipper: chiunque abbia visto "master of Stones" sa cosa significa...
7-Crater: cosa si dice al posto del 6 se si, ehmmm, atterra....
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da matteo » dom mag 14, 2006 0:08 am
[quote="Payns"]Più o meno è cosi:
Domenica, io Grizzly e Bonsai abbiamo fatto una (multipitch) MULTIPITCHES. attrezzata a (fix) BOLTS, con eventuale integrazione a (friends) CAMS.
L'intenzione era di farla )
(flash) on-sight, ma ci è toccato qualche resting soprattutto su un tiro in handogging.
In particolare un tiro con un passo boulderoso ci ha impedito la redpoint. Molto bello comunque, Grizzly mi incitava con una "(go climb a rock)HANG in THERE BRO! " mentre passando in (toproping) SECONDING esclamava (wonderful) FUCK Yeah!
Payns, Buone le idee ma un po' scarso il contenuto. Occhio alla grammatica, parla di piu' delle tue emozioni e non inventarti termini che non esistono in inglese.
voto: 6+
Domenica, io Grizzly e Bonsai abbiamo fatto una (multipitch) MULTIPITCHES. attrezzata a (fix) BOLTS, con eventuale integrazione a (friends) CAMS.
L'intenzione era di farla )
(flash) on-sight, ma ci è toccato qualche resting soprattutto su un tiro in handogging.
In particolare un tiro con un passo boulderoso ci ha impedito la redpoint. Molto bello comunque, Grizzly mi incitava con una "(go climb a rock)HANG in THERE BRO! " mentre passando in (toproping) SECONDING esclamava (wonderful) FUCK Yeah!
Payns, Buone le idee ma un po' scarso il contenuto. Occhio alla grammatica, parla di piu' delle tue emozioni e non inventarti termini che non esistono in inglese.
voto: 6+
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da Silvio » dom mag 14, 2006 3:32 am
matteo ha scritto:Payns ha scritto:Più o meno è cosi:
Domenica, io Grizzly e Bonsai abbiamo fatto una (multipitch) MULTIPITCHES. attrezzata a (fix) BOLTS, con eventuale integrazione a (friends) CAMS.
L'intenzione era di farla )
(flash) on-sight, ma ci è toccato qualche resting soprattutto su un tiro in handogging.
In particolare un tiro con un passo boulderoso ci ha impedito la redpoint. Molto bello comunque, Grizzly mi incitava con una "(go climb a rock)HANG in THERE BRO! " mentre passando in (toproping) SECONDING esclamava (wonderful) FUCK Yeah!
Payns, Buone le idee ma un po' scarso il contenuto. Occhio alla grammatica, parla di piu' delle tue emozioni e non inventarti termini che non esistono in inglese.
voto: 6+
bene arrivato.
voto : zero +, di incoraggiamento !!!
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