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  2. Bouldering - Wikipedia

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    Bouldering is a form of rock climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or harnesses.While bouldering can be done without any equipment, most climbers use climbing shoes to help secure footholds, chalk to keep their hands dry and to provide a firmer grip, and bouldering mats to prevent injuries from falls.

  3. List of grade milestones in rock climbing - Wikipedia

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    In rock-climbing, a first free ascent (FFA) is the first redpoint, onsight or flash of a single-pitch, multi-pitch (or big wall), or boulder climbing route that did not involve using aid equipment to help progression or resting; the ascent must therefore be performed in either a sport, a traditional, or a free solo manner.

  4. Rock climbing - Wikipedia

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    In the history of rock climbing, the three main sub-disciplines — bouldering, single-pitch climbing, and big wall climbing — trace their origins to late 19th-century Europe. [129] Bouldering started in Fontainebleau , and was pioneered by Pierre Allain in the 1930s, and John Gill in the 1950s.

  5. Midnight Lightning (climb) - Wikipedia

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    Midnight Lightning is a 7.62-metre (25.0 ft) high granite bouldering route on the Columbia Boulder in Camp 4 of Yosemite National Park.When first solved in May 1978 by American rock climber Ron Kauk, it was graded at V8 (7B/7B+), which was the world's second-ever boulder route at that grade, and the first in North America.

  6. Eldorado Canyon State Park - Wikipedia

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    It was established in 1978 and is located in Boulder County near the city of Boulder. [2] The park consists of two areas, the Inner Canyon (developed area) and Crescent Meadows (undeveloped area). The park encompasses 885 acres (3.6 km 2) with a variety of recreation opportunities available. Eldorado Canyon is home to one of the world's most ...

  7. Competition climbing - Wikipedia

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    Competition climbing is a form of regulated rock climbing competition held indoors on purpose-built artificial climbing walls (earlier versions were held on external natural rock surfaces). The three competition climbing disciplines are lead climbing, bouldering, and speed climbing. The result of multiple disciplines can be used in a "combined ...

  8. Margo Hayes - Wikipedia

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    Margo Hayes (born February 11, 1998) [1] is an American professional rock climber from Boulder, Colorado.In 2016, she won both the competition bouldering and the competition lead climbing events at the IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in Guangzhou ().

  9. Beta (climbing) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] Multiple route options–and thus betas–are particularly common on long multi-pitch climbing and big wall climbing routes, for example on the famous Yosemite route Freerider and its optional V7 (7A+) "Huber boulder problem". [4] In rock climbing, beta can include background information about a route's grade of difficulty (e.g ...

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