sport climbing
Sign in to saveAlso known as sports climbing, bolted climbing, indoor climbing
type of climbing that takes place on routes pre-equipped with fixed anchors where the climber secures the rope at these points as they progress
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- free climbing
- Image
- Adam Ondra climbing Silence 9c by PAVEL BLAZEK 3.jpg
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- uses
- quickdraw
- practiced by
- rock climber
- OpenStreetMap tag
- climbing:sport=yes
- Commons category
- Sport climbing
- start time
- 1980-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:Sport climbing
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Encyclopedic overview
Adam Ondra on the hardest sport climbing route in history, Silence 9c (5.15d), in Flatanger, Norway
Sport climbing (or bolted climbing) is a type of free climbing in the sport of rock climbing in which the lead climber clips their rope—via a quickdraw—into pre-drilled in-situ bolts on the rockface for their protection as they ascend the route. Sport climbing differs from the riskier and more demanding format of traditional climbing where the lead climber—as they ascend the route—must also find places into which temporary and removable protection equipment (e.g. spring-loaded camming devices) can be inserted for their safety.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sport climbing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.