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PARALLEL CRACK [1 record]

Record 1 1992-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
CONT

Parallel cracks have sides which run evenly next to each other, and are very difficult to climbs (there are no irregularities to lock your fingers around)

OBS

The essential characteristics were inferred from an illustration in How to rock climb! by J. Long (1989), p. 73, and other reading: It is a crack that is used by rock climbers to advance in rock climbing and its sides are equidistant at all points along its length.

OBS

The concept may apply to artificial climbing structures which simulate natural rock for rock climbing training, as well as to the physical rock of mountains.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
OBS

Caractéristiques déterminées à partir d'une illustration dans L'escalade écrit par J. Barry et N. Shepard (1990), p. 41 : C'est une fissure dont les bords sont réguliers, sans constrictions et équidistants à chaque point de sa longueur.

OBS

Le grimpeur s'en sert pour avancer dans la pratique de l'escalade.

Spanish

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