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Australian rappel demonstrated at a dam in Norway Abseiling (from the German: abseilen, "to rope down") is the process of descending on a fixed rope. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
Rock climbers on Valkyrie at The Roaches in Staffordshire, England. ...
Main article: Rock climbing 400 BC: Chinese watercolors that depict men climbing rocks. ...
The climbing system is a general term for the techniques and equipment used by roped climbers to protect themselves against injury or death if they fall. ...
A climbing technique is any of a number of body postures, movements and holds used in climbing. ...
In mountaineering and related climbing sports, climbers give a climbing grade to a route that attempts to assess the difficulty and danger of climbing the route. ...
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Names
It is also known as: rappelling (American English), abbing (British slang for "abseiling"), jumping (Australian slang) rap jumping (American slang), roping down, roping, seiling (Australian slang), snapling (Israeli slang), rappling (Hindi slang). For other uses, see American English (disambiguation). ...
British slang // Yorkshire colloquialisms London slang Cockney rhyming slang Some slang words are shared between British and American English, with a difference in spelling only. ...
Hindi (DevanÄgarÄ«: or , IAST: , IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken all over India in varying degrees and extensively in northern and central India, is one of the 22 official languages of India and is also used for central government administrative purposes , along with English. ...
History The origin of the abseil is attributed[1] to Jean Estéril Charlet, a Chamonix guide who lived from 1840-1925. Charlet originally devised the technique of the abseil (or rappel) method of roping down during a failed solo attempt of Petit Dru in 1876. After many attempts, some of them solo, he managed to conquer the Petit Dru in 1879 in the company of two other Chamonix guides, Prosper Payot and Frédéric Folliguet, whom he hired (a rather paradoxical move for a guide). During that ascent, Charlet perfected the abseil. Panorama of Chamonix valley Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a town and commune in eastern France, in the Haute-Savoie département, at the foot of Mont Blanc. ...
1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Aiguille du Dru (also the Dru or the Drus) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. ...
Year 1876 Pick up Sticks(MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Year 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Jean Charlet is known for the first winter ascent of Mont Blanc in 1872 with Isabella Straton. In 1871, Straton was Charlet’s client during the first ascent of the Aiguille du Moine, and, a year after the pair's winter ascent of Mont Blanc, they were married. The story goes that it was at the top of Mont Blanc, in trying to warm his client, that the future conqueror of the Petit Dru also warmed her heart[citation needed]. This article is about the Alpine mountain. ...
Year 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
The Aiguille du Dru (also the Dru or the Drus) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. ...
Equipment - Helmets are worn to protect the head from bumps and falling rocks. A light source may be mounted on the helmet in order to keep the hands free in unlit areas.
- Gloves protect hands from the rope and from hits with the wall. They are mainly used by recreational abseilers, industrial access practitioners, adventure racers and military as opposed to climbers or mountaineers. In fact, they can increase the risk of accident by becoming caught in the descender in certain situations.
- Boots or other sturdy footwear with good grips.
- Knee-pads (and sometimes elbow-pads) are popular in some applications for the protection of joints during crawls or hits.
- Ropes used for descending are typically of Kernmantle rope construction, with a multi-strand core protected by an abrasion-resistant woven sheath. For most applications, low-stretch rope (typically ~2% stretch when under the load of a typical bodyweight) is used to reduce bouncing and to allow easier ascending of the rope.
- A harness is used around the waist to secure the descender. A comfortable harness is important for descents that may take many hours.
- A descender is a device or hitch designed to allow for rope to be paid out in a controlled fashion, under load, with a minimal amount of effort by the person controlling it. The speed with which the rope is allowed to pass is controlled by increasing or decreasing the amount of friction applied to the rope by the descender; the greater the friction, the slower the rope moves. These can be either mechanical or improvised.
- Mechanical descenders include braking bars, the figure eight, the abseil rack, the "bobbin" (and its self-locking variant the "stop"), the gold tail, and the "sky genie" used by some window-washers and wildfire firefighters.
- Some improvised descenders include the Munter hitch, a carabiner wrap, the basic crossed-carabiner brake and the piton bar brake (sometimes called the carabiner and piton). There is also the older, but more uncomfortable, method of wrapping the rope around one's body for friction, as in the Dulfersitz or Geneva methods popularly used by climbers in the 1960s.
A person wearing a helmet. ...
// Leather gloves A glove (Middle English from Old English glof) is a type of garment (and more specifically a fashion accessory) which covers the hand of a human. ...
A wide range of equipment is used during rock climbing. ...
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Coils of rope used for long-line fishing A rope (IPA: ) is a length of fibers, twisted or braided together to improve strength for pulling and connecting. ...
Kernmantle rope is rope constructed with its interior core (the kern) protected with a woven exterior sheath (mantle) that is designed to optimize strength, durability, and flexibility. ...
A climbing harness is a piece of equipment used in certain types of climbing. ...
A wide range of equipment is used during rock climbing. ...
A wide range of equipment is used during rock climbing. ...
This article is about the profession. ...
The Munter hitch, also known as the Italian hitch, is a simple knot, commonly used by climbers and cavers as part of a life-lining or belay system. ...
Application Abseiling is used in a number of applications, including: - Rock climbers returning to the base of a climb or to a point where they then try a new route. Note: in many areas this is frowned upon. In some, it is banned [1].
- Recreational abseilers, who return to the top of the line by track, stairs or other methods and abseil again.
- Recreational canyoners, who travel down mountainous watercourses where waterfalls or cliffs may need to be descended and simply jumping is too dangerous or impossible.
- Recreational caving, where underground pitches are accessed using this method (Single Rope Technique).
- Adventure racers, whose events often including abseiling and other rope work.
- Industrial/Commercial workers, who use abseiling techniques to access parts of structures or buildings so as to perform maintenance, cleaning or construction. (eg window cleaners, railway scalers, quarry workers, etc.)
- Access to wildfires or wilderness rescue/paramedic operations by rapelling from a hovering helicopter.
- Military or police applications, such as rapid deployment from helicopters or access to buildings as part of raids, etc.
- Confined spaces access, such as investigating ballast tanks and other areas of ships.
- Rescue applications, such as accessing injured people or accident sites (vehicle or aircraft) and extracting the casualty using abseiling techniques.
Abseiling can be a dangerous sport, and presents risks, especially to unsupervised or inexperienced climbers. Abseiling is, in fact, viewed by climbers as being more dangerous than climbing itself [2], as the rope system is taking the weight of the practitioner constantly rather than only in the event of a fall. Moreover, a high percentage of mishaps classified as "climbing accidents" actually occur when abseiling. Climbers on Valkyrie at the Roaches. ...
Canyoning in the Rocky Mountains Canyoning via packraft in the U.S. southwest deserts. ...
Caving frequently involves a lot of mud. ...
For other uses, see Pitch A pitch is a significant underground vertical space in mining terminology. ...
Single Rope Technique (SRT) is a method (or rather set of methods) used in caving and potholing to descend and ascend vertical drops (pitches). SRT is also used in roped access for building maintenance. ...
Not to be confused with Rogaining. ...
For other uses, see Wildfire (disambiguation). ...
For other uses, see Helicopter (disambiguation). ...
Rescue refers to operations that usually involve the saving of life, or prevention of injury. ...
Abseiling is prohibited or discouraged in many areas, due to the potential for rock erosion and/or conflict with climbers heading upwards[2].
See also Australian rappel demonstrated at a dam in Norway Australian Rappeling (also known as Rap jumping, angel jumping, or Décalade in french ) is the process of descending a fixed rope in a standing position while facing the ground. ...
Rock climbers on Valkyrie at The Roaches in Staffordshire, England. ...
Single Rope Technique (SRT) is a method (or rather set of methods) used in caving and potholing to descend and ascend vertical drops (pitches). SRT is also used in roped access for building maintenance. ...
This is a list articles related to climbing and mountaineering. ...
An open crevasse. ...
Canyoning in the Rocky Mountains Canyoning via packraft in the U.S. southwest deserts. ...
References and footnotes
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