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Climbing technique refers to a broad range of physical movements used in the activity or sport of
climbing Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or other parts of the body to ascend a steep topographical object that can range from the world's tallest mountains (e.g. the eight thousanders) to small boulders. Climbing is done for locom ...
. Notable sub-groups of climbing technique include: * Aid climbing technique as is used in aid climbing * Big wall climbing technique as is used in big wall climbing * Ice climbing technique as is used in ice climbing * Mixed climbing technique as is used in mixed climbing and dry-tooling * Mountaineering technique as is used in mountaineering and
alpine climbing Alpine climbing () is a type of mountaineering that uses any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing, ice climbing, and/or mixed climbing, to summit typically large routes (e.g. multi-pitch or big wall) in an alpi ...
* Multi-pitch climbing technique as is used in multi-pitch rock, ice, and mixed climbing * Rock-climbing technique as is used in
bouldering Bouldering is a form of rock climbing that is performed on small rock formations or Climbing wall, artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or Climbing harness, harnesses. While bouldering can be done without any equipment, most climbers ...
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competition climbing Competition climbing is a form of regulated rock climbing, rock-climbing competition held indoor climbing, indoors on purpose-built artificial climbing walls (earlier versions were held on external natural rock surfaces). The three competition ...
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free solo climbing Free solo climbing, or free soloing, is a form of rock climbing where the climber (or ''free soloist'') climbs Solo climbing, solo (or alone) without Climbing rope, ropes or other Rock climbing equipment#Protection devices, protective equipmen ...
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deep-water soloing Deep-water soloing (DWS), also known as psicobloc (from "psycho-bouldering"), is a form of free solo climbing where any fall should result in the climber landing safely into deep water below the climbing routes, route. DWS is therefore considere ...
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sport climbing Sport climbing (or bolted climbing) is a type of free climbing in the sport of rock climbing where the Lead climbing, lead climber clips their climbing rope, rope — via a quickdraw — into pre-drilled in-situ bolt (climbing), bolts for their ...
, traditional climbing and top rope climbing. *Rope-solo technique as is used in rope solo climbing *Self-rescue technique as is used in self-rescue climbing.


See also

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Beta (climbing) Beta is a Glossary of climbing terms, climbing term that designates information about how to ascend a climbing route, and the specific climbing techniques required—and how to apply them—to overcome the key challenges encountered. Traditionally ...
, information on what technique to use * Campus board, an important training device for enabling advanced climbing techniques *
Grade (climbing) Many climbing routes have grades for the technical difficulty, and in some cases for the risks, of the route. The first ascent, first ascensionist can suggest a grade but it will be amended for the ''consensus view'' of subsequent ascents. W ...
, closely associated with the development of climbing technique *
History of rock climbing In the history of rock climbing, the three main sub-disciplines – bouldering, Pitch (climbing), single-pitch climbing, and big wall climbing, big wall (and multi-pitch climbing, multi-pitch) climbing – can trace their origins to late 19th-ce ...
, a chronicle of the impact of evolving techniques on standards


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Climbing Techniques and Moves
REI (2023)
A Comprehensive Guide to Climbing Technique
''Gripped Magazine'' (February 2021) {{SIA Sports techniques