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- Ice climbing - Ice Climbing, as the term indicates, is the activity of ascending inclined ice formations. Usually, though, ice climbing refers to roped and protected climbing of features such as icefalls, frozen waterfalls, and cliffs and rock slabs covered with ice refrozen from flows of water.
- Climbing area - A climbing area is a small geographical region with a concentration of opportunities for climbing. The term is most commonly used of rock climbing areas, but there are also ice climbing areas that have the right combination of steepness and water to result in climbable ice during the winter.
- Ice tool - An ice tool is a specialized elaboration of the modern ice axe (and often described broadly as an ice axe itself), used in ice climbing, mostly for the more difficult configurations.
- Ice axe - An ice axe is a multi-purpose mountaineering tool carried by practically every mountaineer. The narrow sense used here excludes ice tools for ice climbing.
- Pitch (vertical space) - In rock climbing and ice climbing, a pitch is a steep section of a route that requires a rope between two belays, as part of a climbing system. Standard climbing ropes are between 45 and 60 metres long, so a pitch is always shorter, between two convenient ledges if possible; longer routes ...