CLIMBING PRESENTATION

CLIMBING

INDOORS AND OUTDOORS

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.

Why do I like climbing ?

It involves not only your muscles but also your brain

Completing a way feels really fulfilling

I share this hobbie with one of my older sisters

It makes me forget everything about the outside world

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

You can meet lots of new people and learn from them

Security Harness

Climbing Shoes

Chalk

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

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.

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

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Outdoor Climbing

Free Solo Climbing

Via Ferrata

Secured Climbing

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.

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.

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.

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Indoor Climbing

Speed Climbing

Block Climbing

Secured Climbing

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.

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

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.

The Alpinist

The Dawn Wall

Touching the Void

2021

2003

2017

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

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.

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.

What do you think about free solo ?

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

Thank you!