Aid climbing

Technical climbing designated in mountaineering climbing on rocks with the help of hooks, ropes, rope ladders, etc., which are used for locomotion. In contrast, these tools are used in free climbing exclusively to hedge against falling.

In the simplest form, the securing hooks are used as grips or footholds aid climbing. With increasing difficulty extra pitons be beaten on which depends the climber or where he can pull a small piece with a rope.

In addition, rope ladders are used to standing and climbing. This can be overcome even a horizontal roof by a series of hooks is a crack in succession beaten, always with the hook heads down, where you hanging starts to work slowly. Completely smooth wall pieces without any plan for turning a hook can be climbed by drilling holes and doweled hook, cemented or glued. All these techniques are very tedious and require a lot of equipment. Long routes from about 800 or 1000 m wall height can usually no longer be climbed in a day, so that must be bivouacked in the wall.

In aid climbing, there is a rating scale that ranges from A0 to A5 (a:. ' Artificial ' engl for artificially ) rated Sort the difficulty of technical climbing, depending on the amount of force, the difficulty of hitting hooks and the strength of the rock.

The technical climbing was developed in the 1920s by climbers in the Alps. The hitherto not yet ascended walls could not be defeated in free climbing with the former technique and equipment ( hemp ropes, spiked shoes ). Therefore, they began to use additional tools.

In the 1930s, succeeded with the help of technical climbing the commission of all the famous north faces of the Alps, such as the Matterhorn, Grandes Jorasses, Piz Badile, Dru, Big battlement and Eiger North Face.

After the Second World War, the technical climbing has evolved and with the help of bolts reject particular routes were ever climbed. Thus, since virtually everything is to climb, came the development of technical climbing into a dead end. So the free climbing was as a countermovement popular again in the 1970s. The possibilities of free climbing has since been expanded more and more through better techniques, training and equipment. Today, free climbing is preferred where possible. Technical climbing is still applied when big wall climbing and in the long extreme routes in the Alps.

The Einseiltechnik of cavers and so-called " rope access climbing technique " and the " rope access technique ," in the field of " industrial climbing " in facade works in tree maintenance work at height rescue, staging, etc. are counted for technical climbing.

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