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Climbing guidebook, the Glossary

Climbing guidebooks are used by mountaineers, alpinists, ice climbers, and rock climbers to locate, grade, and navigate climbing routes on mountains, climbing crags, or bouldering areas.^[1]

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Climbing and mountaineering books

A Climber's Guide to the Teton Range

A Climber's Guide to the Teton Range is a mountain climbing guidebook by Leigh N. Ortenburger and Reynold G. Jackson. Climbing guidebook and a Climber's Guide to the Teton Range are climbing and mountaineering books.

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Aid climbing

Aid climbing is a form of rock climbing that uses mechanical devices and equipment, such as aiders (or ladders), for upward momentum.

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Alpine climbing

Alpine climbing (Alpinklettern) is a type of mountaineering that involves using any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing, ice climbing, and/or mixed climbing, to summit typically large routes (e.g. multi-pitch or big wall) in an alpine environment.

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Alpine Club (UK)

The Alpine Club was founded in London on 22 December 1857 and is the world's first mountaineering club.

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Alpine Club Guide

The Alpine Club Guides (Alpenvereinsführer, commonly shortened to AV Führer or AVF) were the standard series of alpine climbing guidebookss that cover all the important mountain groups in the Eastern Alps. Climbing guidebook and alpine Club Guide are climbing and mountaineering books.

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Alpinist (magazine)

Alpinist is a quarterly American magazine focused on mountain literature and mountaineering ascents worldwide.

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American Alpine Club

The American Alpine Club (AAC) is a non-profit member organization with more than 26,000 members.

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Banff Mountain Book Festival

The Banff Mountain Book Festival is an annual book festival held at the Banff Centre in Banff, Canada.

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Beta (climbing)

Beta is a climbing term that designates information about how to ascend a climbing route, and the specific climbing techniques required—and how to apply them—to overcome the key challenges encountered.

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Big wall climbing

Big wall climbing is a form of rock climbing that takes place on long multi-pitch routes (of at least 6–10 pitches or 300–500 metres) that normally require a full day, if not several days, to ascend.

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Bolt (climbing)

In rock climbing, a bolt is a permanent anchor fixed into a hole drilled in the rock as a form of climbing protection.

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Bouldering

Bouldering is a form of free climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or harnesses.

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British Mountaineering Council

The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) is the national representative body for England and Wales that exists to protect the freedoms and promote the interests of climbers, hill walkers and mountaineers, including ski-mountaineers.

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Climbers' Club

The Climbers' Club is the senior rock-climbing club in England and Wales (outside the Lake District).

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Climbing (magazine)

Climbing is a major US-based rock climbing magazine first published in 1970.

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Climbing route

A climbing route (Kletterrouten) is a path by which a climber reaches the top of a mountain, or rock/ice-covered obstacle.

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Climbing technique

Climbing technique refers to a broad range of physical movements used in the activity or sport of climbing.

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Club Alpino Italiano

The Club Alpino Italiano is the senior Italian alpine club which stages climbing competitions, operates alpine huts, marks and maintains paths, and is active in protecting the Alpine environment.

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Eldorado Canyon State Park

Eldorado Canyon State Park is part of the Colorado State Park system.

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Elizabeth Hawley

Elizabeth Hawley (9 November 1923 – 26 January 2018) was an American journalist, author, and chronicler of Himalayan mountaineering expeditions.

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Fifty Classic Climbs of North America

Fifty Classic Climbs of North America is a 1979 climbing guidebook and history written by Steve Roper and Allen Steck. Climbing guidebook and Fifty Classic Climbs of North America are climbing and mountaineering books.

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First ascent

In mountaineering and climbing, a first ascent (abbreviated to FA in guide books), is the first successful documented climb to the top of a mountain or the top of a particular climbing route.

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Glossary of climbing terms

Glossary of climbing terms relates to rock climbing (including aid climbing, lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing), mountaineering, and to ice climbing.

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Golden age of alpinism

The golden age of alpinism was the decade in mountaineering between Alfred Wills's ascent of the Wetterhorn in 1854 and Edward Whymper's ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which many major peaks in the Alps saw their first ascents.

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Grade (climbing)

Many climbing routes have a grade that reflects the technical difficulty—and in some cases the risks and commitment level—of the route.

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Guida dei Monti d'Italia

The Guida dei monti d'Italia (in English Guidebook to the Italian mountains) is a series of guidebooks published in Italy by the Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) along with Touring Club Italiano (TCI) in two periods, the first from 1908 to 1932 and the second from 1934 to 2013. Climbing guidebook and guida dei Monti d'Italia are climbing and mountaineering books.

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Ice climbing

Ice climbing is a climbing discipline that involves ascending routes consisting of frozen water.

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John Sherman (climber)

John Sherman (born 1959), nicknamed Verm (short for "Vermin") is an American rock climber and a pioneer in the promotion and development of the climbing discipline of bouldering.

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Ken Wilson (mountaineering writer)

Kenneth John Wilson (7 February 1941 – 11 June 2016) was a British writer, publisher and editor of books and magazines about climbing and mountaineering.

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Lancashire Rock

Lancashire Rock is the official climbing guidebook for rock climbing in Lancashire. Climbing guidebook and Lancashire Rock are climbing and mountaineering books.

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Mountain Project

Mountain Project is a website that serves as a guidebook to more than 300,000 climbing routes across the world.

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Mountaineering

Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains.

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Pikes Peak

Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in North America.

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Pique Newsmagazine

Pique Newsmagazine is the only newspaper serving the resort community of Whistler, British Columbia.

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Rock climbing

Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations or indoor climbing walls.

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Rock-climbing equipment

Rock-climbing equipment varies with the type of climbing undertaken.

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Shawangunk Ridge

The Shawangunk Ridge, also known as the Shawangunk Mountains or The Gunks, is a ridge of bedrock in Ulster County, Sullivan County and Orange County in the state of New York, extending from the northernmost point of the border with New Jersey to the Catskills.

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Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization with chapters in all 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico.

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Smartphone

A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.

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Some Gritstone Climbs

Some Gritstone Climbs is a rock climbing guidebook written by British lawyer John Laycock (1887–1960). Climbing guidebook and Some Gritstone Climbs are climbing and mountaineering books.

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Sport climbing

Sport climbing (or bolted climbing) is a type of free climbing in rock climbing where the lead climber clips into pre-drilled permanent bolts for their protection while ascending a route.

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Steve Roper

Steve Roper is a noted climber and historian of the Sierra Nevada in the United States.

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The Gazette (Colorado Springs)

The Gazette is a daily newspaper based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Himalayan Database

The Himalayan Database: The Expedition Archives of Elizabeth Hawley is a large digital and published record of mountaineering in the Nepalese Himalayas since 1903 (i.e. it does not include the Pakistan Himalaya peaks such as K2 and Nanga Parbat etc.), maintained by Richard Salisbury who digitised the records. Climbing guidebook and the Himalayan Database are climbing and mountaineering books.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbing_guidebook

Also known as Climbing guide, Rock climbing guidebook, Sandbagging (climbing).

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