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Eastern Mountain Sports (or EMS) is an outdoor clothing and equipment retailer in the Northeastern United States headquartered in Meriden, Connecticut.. EMS sells outdoor equipment and clothing from both name brands and its own EMS line.
Notable major classes of mountain sports (with sub-classes) include: Climbing-based: Mountaineering (including alpine climbing and expedition climbing ), ice climbing (including mixed climbing and dry-tooling ), rock climbing (including aid climbing , big wall climbing , and multi-pitch climbing ), and Via Ferrata climbing
sportchalet.com (Redirects to Eastern Mountain Sports website) Sport Chalet was a sporting goods chain with 47 stores in Southern & Northern California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. [ 1 ] Most stores were over 35,000 square feet (3,300 square meters) in size, with many including dive pools and offering SCUBA classes.
Aug. 21—Eastern Mountain Sports is closing its stores in Peterborough and at the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester. The New Hampshire locations are two of 14 stores closing in seven states ...
By February 2017, Eastern Outfitters filed for bankruptcy. [13] The company planned to close 48 of its 86 stores in the Northeast. [14] On April 19, 2017, after expanding to nearly 50 stores at its peak, Sports Direct International plc (Sports Direct) received permission to acquire Bob's Stores and Eastern Mountain Sports for $101 million. [15]
There are a number of sub-classes of free soloing: Deep-water soloing (DWS), is a subtype of free solo climbing performed on rock faces that overhang above water where in the case of a fall, the climber lands in the water. [2] Extreme deep-water solo routes have falls of over 20–40 metres (66–131 ft), and thus a risk of serious injury. [2]
At its peak, it had spawned competitors, including Altra Kits, Sundown Kits, Holubar Carikits, Plain Brown Wrapper Kits, and EMS (Eastern Mountain Sports) Kits. In 1978, the company was acquired by Gilette. [3] Gillette had little success in the segment. It liquidated the company in 1983. [2]
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 ...