Ice climbing

Ice climbing is the climbing ice formations such as frozen waterfalls and icicles. The climbers use crampons and ice axes (special ice axes) to climb the ice. Ice climbing is a special discipline of alpine climbing or mountaineering, since all knowledge of alpine climbing necessary here. Therefore, the same protection as in the alpine ( winter ) is used climbing.

Ice tour

An ice tour refers to a high-altitude climbing in an ice wall. Ice walls are usually on glaciated mountains and have an inclination between 40 ° and 90 °. For climbing through a wall of ice crampons, ice ax, ice screws, helmet and rope are necessary.

Fuse in the ice

For making belays and Standplatzbau ice screws are used in ice climbing. These have replaced the Eisnägel used in the past. To Stand build two ice screws with a belt loop are connected by a triangle of forces in general, but they can also be mounted in series anchorage. It can also be great hourglasses for attaching fuses are used.

While retreating be drilled with the help of ice screws Eissanduhren the ice and pulled through belt loops or cords. At this, the climber can then abseil (but draining is so not because of the melt- risk possible).

A second method is the abseiling themselves turning out ice screw. For this, the ice screw is provided with a keeper cord. The cord is secured to the strap coil, wrapped around the ice screw and secured to the second end of the rope. When disconnecting the cable, the ice screw is unscrewed by the Cord and coincides with the rope down.

Dry -Tooling

In recent years, has developed as a special discipline of the ice climbing dry tooling. Here a rock wall is climbable with ice axes and crampons special. The dry-tooling arose because many ice climbers looking for challenging icicles in the ascent to these icicles difficult areas had to overcome in the rock.

Mixed climbing

Mixed climbing is the latest game form of ice or waterfall climbing, where you between the Eiskletterpassagen also dry-tooling must overcome passages with ice axes and crampons. For example, overhanging rock zones are climbing by the ice axes are placed on rock ledges or jammed in cracks, and in this way achieved a free-hanging icicles and then climbed.

The difficulty of ice or mixed routes will be assessed with the help of special difficulty scales.