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2. Foamcore - Wikipedia

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   Foamcore, foam board, or paper-faced foam board is a lightweight and easily cut material used for mounting of photographic prints, as backing for picture framing, for making scale models, and in painting. It consists of a board of polystyrene foam clad with an outer facing of paper on either side, typically white clay-coated paper or brown ...

3. Bouldering mat - Wikipedia

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   Boulderer with several crashpads. A bouldering mat or crashpad (also sketchpad) is a nylon-enclosed multi-layer foam pad used for protection when bouldering.Bouldering mats help prevent climbers from injuring themselves from the continuous and repeated falls onto hard or uneven surfaces that are associated with projecting a bouldering problem.

4. List of climbers and mountaineers - Wikipedia

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   Enid Michael (1883–1966) US, known for ropeless climbing in Yosemite in the early 1900s; John Middendorf (born 1959) US, big-wall rock climber, first ascent East Wall Great Trango Tower (1992) Thomas Middlemore (1842–1923) UK, first ascents in Mont Blanc and Bernina massifs, and Bernese Alps; Gwen Moffat (born 1924) UK, author of Space ...

5. Rope solo climbing - Wikipedia

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   Rope-solo climbing or rope-soloing (or self-belaying) is a form of solo climbing (i.e. performed alone without a climbing partner), but unlike with free solo climbing, which is also performed alone and with no climbing protection whatsoever, the rope-solo climber uses a mechanical self-belay device and rope system, which enables them to use the standard climbing protection to protect ...

6. Climbing wall - Wikipedia

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   The first commercial wall in the UK, The Foundry Climbing Centre, was built in Sheffield in 1991, traditionally England's centre for climbing due to its proximity to the Peak District. [4] The first indoor climbing gym in the United States was established by Vertical World in Seattle in 1987. [ 5 ]

7. Lining of paintings - Wikipedia

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   Stoner's survey on conservators' use of adhesive agents shows that thirty one out of thirty two professionals use BEVA 371 as their lining adhesive. Sixty two percent of these conservators used wax-based adhesives only when necessary. While the data set is fairly small, this is emblematic of a stark shift in attitude across the twentieth century.