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TradGirl Climbing FAQ: Aid Climbing - Frequently asked questions about aid climbing with answers compiled from rec.climbing.
Rock Climbing.com Forums - Includes general discussion forums as well as special forums for ice climbing, aid climbing, bouldering, trad climbing, and competition climbing.
Climbing FAQ - Answers to frequently asked questions including sections on buying and maintaining gear, top-roping, leading, ice climbing, aid climbing, home gyms, health and training, and safety.
Climbing Talk - Forums for rock climbing, bouldering, aid climbing, mountaineering, and ice climbing.
Trango Russian Aid System Review - Review from GearReview.com.
Aid Climbing in a Three Person Team - Article by Ken Younge and Tuan Luong giving personal experiences, tips, and techniques.
Bigwall.com - Topos, beta, trip reports and photos from walls in Yosemite, the Sierra Nevada, Zion, Fisher Towers and Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Plus the Aid Climbing Guide to Southern California.
Big Wall Climbing - Trip reports. Ratings explained. Equipment list. Photos. Route suggestions.
Hints For Big-Wall Climbing in Yosemite - Tips for beginners, climbing in a three person team, soloing, hauling, and improving speed compiled by Q. Tuan Luong.
Baba, Karl - Trip reports and photos from free and aid climbing in Yosemite. A topo for Galactic Hitchhiker.

Aid climbing - Aid climbing is a style of climbing in which fixed or placed protection is used to make upward progress. In the Yosemite Decimal System used in the US, it is sometimes called "6th class" climbing.
Dave Rearick - Dave Rearick (born ca 1934) is an American rock climber and mathematician. A pioneer of Yosemite's golden age of climbing, Rearick - frequently climbing with Bob Kamps – was instrumental in shifting the focus from aid climbing to free climbing in the 1950s.
Rick White (rock climber) - Rick White (1946-2004) is an Australian rock climber best known for discovering and developing the rock climbing destination of Frog Buttress near Boonah in Queensland, Australia. During the late 1960's and 1970's, Rick and his friends pushed the physical, mental and technological limits of free and aid climbing and dragged the Queensland climbing scene, kicking and screaming into the modern era.
Roped solo climbing - Roped soloing is a way to safely climb without a climbing partner. There are two main divisions to roped soloing: Aid solo and roped solo.
Piton - In climbing, a piton (pronounced Pee'-ton, also called a pin or peg) is a steel spike that is driven into a crack or seam in the rock with a hammer, and which acts as an anchor to protect the climber against the consequences of a fall, or to assist progress in aid climbing.