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STEP-CUTTING [1 record]

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Record 1 1994-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
DEF

A method of creating footholds on ice- or snow-covered slopes by hacking out platforms for the feet with one's ice axe.

CONT

All step cutting is very tiring and on steep ice can be exhausting and time consuming.

CONT

Today's crampons and axes have largely - though by no means wholly - left step-cutting (and step-cutters) to history.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
DEF

Action de tailler des marches dans la neige ou la glace avec la panne du piolet.

CONT

La taille de marche. [...] De moins en moins utilisée de nos jours et remplacée par le cramponnage et les ancrages des piolets modernes, la taille est une technique complémentaire.

Spanish

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