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| Climbing - how to get started- Monday 04 December, 2006 |
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Climbing - how to get started
If you would like to start climbing, please note that every year loads of beginners, as well as very skilled and experienced climbers, are killed whilst climbing. Don't climb unless you are under the supervision of a qualified climber. Climb at your own risk. Good luck.
To begin with there are two broad categories of climbing:
a) Free climbing and b) Aid climbing.
Free Climbing: There is a pureness about free climbing as the climber relies solely on the use of his or her own skills to ascend a rock face. Equipment can be used, it's done so strictly for safety reasons (i.e. to offer protection during a fall).
Aid climbing: this involves the use of equipment to ascend a rock face, which under normal circumstances wouldn't be possible to free climb. From an ethical perspective it is worth pointing out that you should always leave the rock face in the same condition as we found it.
Climbing has continued to evolve and now we have categories such as:
* Bouldering (technical, fun, good way to get started)
* Traditional climbing (i.e. 'Trad'), (challenging, scary, knackering, but great fun)
* Indoor climbing, (safe, great for practice or introduction to climbing)
* Ice climbing (unpredictable nature of the ice structures make this inherently riskier than many other forms of climbing)
* Sport climbing (uses existing fixed gear which speeds climbing pace, not as risky as some other types as climbing)
* Alpine climbing (Matterhorn anyone? Strictly for the advanced climber who is very skilled in rock climbing, ice climbing, wilderness survival and meteorology)
* Mixed climbing (er... it is what it says it is. Climbing on mixed terrain, snow, ice, rock...)
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