TIME FOR CURIOSITIES! - Did you know that above 25 million of people practice climbing around all the world? - The world's strongest climbers are Alberto Gines Lopez, Janja Garnbret, Alex Honnold. Adam Ondra and Chris Sharma are undoubtedly at the top of world climbing. But at the latest since the Olympic debut of climbing, Alberto Gines Lopez and Janja Garnbret are also stars of the scene. - Around a 27.000 of people die each year because of climbing. - The most difficuld mountain to climb is the Denali, in Alaska, in the United States. - Sport climbing consists of climbing or traversing walls with routes equipped with safeties fixed to the wall to ensure the climber's safety. Sport climbing seeks the maximum difficulty of movements, which requires, on the part of the climber, an intense previous preparation. - There are 3 main types of competition climbing: lead, boulder and speed. - The tallest artificial climbing wall is owned by the BaseCamp Climbing G...
TYPES OF CLIMBING There are different types of climbings, the most basics are: I ce climbing, dry-tooling, mountaineering, solo climbing, hill walking and scrambling are also all under the umbrella of "climbing". Rock climbing is the most commun, and from it we can get two different types of climbings, which are Free climbing and Aid Climbing. From the Aid one we don't get anyone but inside the Free one yes, the Roped and the Unroped. In Unroped we get Free Soloring and Boultering, and from Roped, Lead Climbing and Top Rope. Finally, inside the Lead one we find Trad Climbing and the Sport Climbing. S ome people love climbing but are afraid of falling. For those people, the solution has been to do indoor climbing. Within these there are two options: with harness or without harness. If you have a harness, the walls will be higher and the harness will protect you, plus you will have a mat below to prevent any injury. In the ones without harness, the walls are usually lower...
What clothes do we wear when we climb? Thanks god that we are not in the 80-90 because their clothes at climbing were not so good at the ones we actually wear. As I said before, they climbed with the same clothes that they used when they were shopping! How interesting, don't you think so? The clothes that we usually wear when we climb in a gym are sports clothes, but when we climb in mountains or rocks it seems that for rock climbing, you can choose any type of clothing. It can be done, but it is advisable to wear clothing that is suitable for the weather and that allows freedom of movement while providing protection. But, in both of them, the shoes that we wear are Cat's feet. But now you will be asking, what are Cat's feet or why are they so useful? Cat's feet or Climbing shoes are the shoes used by climbers, so called because they are very light, flexible and adherent, thanks to the fact that they incorporate a special adherent rubber on the sole, the side bands a...
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