CLIMBING PRESENTATION

INDOORS AND OUTDOORS

CLIMBING

What is climbing ?

Climbing is a sport where you use your hands, your feet and other parts of your body in order to climb walls, rocks, cliffs... Learning how to keep one's balance is a must-do. But climbing also means making use of your brain. You have to think logically and find the best means to complete a way beforehand.

Doing it outside is a way to discover new breath-taking landscapes

I share this hobbie with one of my older sisters

It makes me forget everything about the outside world

It involves not only your muscles but also your brain

You can meet lots of new people and learn from them

Completing a way feels really fulfilling

Why do I like climbing ?

A device that prevents the climber from having a deadly fall. It also provides him with more body support and allows him to reach for chalk at any time.

Security Harness

There are two different types of chalk : powder and liquid. It is used to have a better grip on rocks or holds.

Chalk

A very specific type of tight-fitted footwear that forces your feet to bend in order to be more precise and powerful.

Climbing Shoes

Outdoor Climbing

01

A dangerous kind of climbing for professional climbers only. You are not secured. You have nothing else but your hands, your feet and your chalk bag.

Free Solo Climbing

A kind of climbing where you climb cliffs with your bare hands. You are assured with a rope held by someone else or tied to small pieces of metal inserted in rock cracks.

Secured Climbing

A long way that goes through one or several moutains. You are secured with a rope and you use snap hooks, steel cables and ladders to climb.

Via Ferrata

Indoor Climbing

02

Speed climbing is about climbing a 49 feet wall faster than your opponent. Men's world record : 4.90 secs. Women's world record : 6.25 secs.

Speed Climbing

Secured indoor climbing involves climbing 49 feet walls with a harness on. Another person ensures the climber's safety by holding a rope tied to his harness.

Secured Climbing

Block climbing involves climbing about 16 or 19 feet walls without being secured.

Block Climbing

A documentary about Marc-André Leclerc, a professional Canadian rock climber who has done the most dangerous solo ascents in the world.

2021

The Alpinist

A drama movie that talks about a terrible climbing accident that happened to two alpinists on the west face of Siual Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

2003

Touching the Void

A documentary about Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jogerson, two climbers who decided to climb up the 3000 feet Dawn Wall of El Capitan in the Yosemite in 2014.

2017

The Dawn Wall

Do you think that free solo climbers are oblivious ? And should climbing huge cliffs be also forbidden ?

What do you think about free solo ?

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