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COUREUR SOMMETS [1 record]

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Record 1 1996-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
CONT

On the largest blocks the hands come into play, but the talus runner continues to lope along more like a monkey than the traditional slow-paced image of a mountain climber.

OBS

This is a type of rock climber who moves quickly leaping from boulder to boulder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
OBS

Un marathonien ou un alpiniste qui court de la base d'une montagne au sommet.

OBS

Coureur de sommets. [...], Gilles Grindler et Laurent Smagghe : entre marathon et alpinisme, ils ont trouvé leur style [...] Le vocabulaire doit-il trancher pour finir entre coureurs et alpinistes? Faire une course en montagne n'est pas totalement identique à faire de la course de montagne.

Spanish

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