Mountaineering-Terminology (Kai Li)

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  1. ice axe
    an ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice
    His earliest poems were difficult and ornate; reading them required technical climbing skills, crampons and an ice axe.
  2. belay
    something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured
    He lifted a belaying pin from the rail and drove out the bolt.
  3. abseil
    a descent down a cliff using a fixed rope wrapped around the body
    By the end of abseil number two, my arms were tired, my clothes wet and my shins bleeding—only 13 more points to go.
  4. anchor
    a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
    Make it harder by standing farther from the anchor point, which can be moved up and down to alter an exercise.
  5. crampon
    a hinged pair of curved iron bars
    As Irish coach attempts to climb out of this morass, again, pure production may be his best and most sensible crampon.
  6. repelling
    highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
    Repul′sive, that repulses or drives off: repelling: cold, reserved, forbidding: causing aversion and disgust.
  7. carabineer
    a soldier who is armed with a carbine
    And she sighed as she looked up at the picture of her Carabineer.
  8. harness
    an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal
    One question is whether nudges can be designed to harness existing social norms.
  9. smithereens
    a collection of small fragments considered as a whole
    The climbers always collected smithereens on the mountain.
  10. chieftain
    the head of a tribe or clan
    The Fan chieftain looked at Crouch, and then dropped his eyes.
Created on Thu Mar 29 20:42:13 EDT 2012 (updated Thu Mar 29 20:49:47 EDT 2012)

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