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2. Can You Really Use An Ascender As A Belay Device? These ... - AOL

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   Greetings from the Philippines! I was horrified the other day when I chanced upon these climbers belaying with an ascender. I gave them my best advice because I thought there was about to be a ...

3. Ascender (climbing) - Wikipedia

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   An ascender is a device (usually mechanical) used for directly ascending, or for facilitating protection, with a fixed rope when climbing on steep mountain terrain. A form introduced in the 1950s became so popular it began the term "Jumar" for the device, and the verb "to jumar" to describe its use in ascending.

4. Petzl Croll - Wikipedia

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   A Petzl Croll with the gate closed, open and with a rope locked in place. A Petzl Croll is an ascending device [1] used in caving and industrial rope access made by the French company Petzl.

5. Self-locking device - Wikipedia

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   A Gibbs-style ascender. The next level of device development improved on the locking limitations of the prusik sling by utilizing a cam that is activated by the climber's body moving down to rotate the simple grab cam inside a rigid frame. The climber's harness is directly attached to the cam and the frame encapsulates the rope.

6. Mountaineering - Wikipedia

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   Mountaineering, mountain climbing, ... Using various techniques from alpine skiing to ascend/descend a mountain is a form of the sport by itself, ...

7. Rock-climbing equipment - Wikipedia

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   UIAA-certified twin ropes. Rock-climbing equipment is broadly classed as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). [7] The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (known as the UIAA) was an important early body—and the only body pre-1995—in setting standards for climbing equipment.

8. List of grade milestones in rock climbing - Wikipedia

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   First-free-ascents that set new grade milestones are important events in rock climbing history, and are listed below. While sport climbing has dominated absolute-grade milestones since the mid-1980s (i.e. are now the highest grades), milestones for modern traditional climbing, free solo climbing, onsighted, and flashed ascents, are also listed.

9. List of climbing and mountaineering equipment brands

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   Climbing equipment The following is a list of notable brands and manufacturers of climbing and mountaineering equipment (including for all forms of rock climbing and of ice climbing ), sorted by continent and by country.