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BELAY STATION [1 record]

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Record 1 2017-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
DEF

The site chosen for a belay anchor, where the belay is made.

CONT

A belay station may be a comfortable ledge, a small foot stance or a hanging belay ...

CONT

The belay station may be a ledge, but often you won't be so lucky: it will consist of several anchors to which you connect yourself and your hauling system.

OBS

Belay station ... Also called belay stance.

OBS

Although some sources consider a belay stance to be a belay station, this is imprecise. A belay station may be the site of a hanging belay consisting of anchors only while a belay stance can only be a ledge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
DEF

Endroit déterminé sur une voie d'escalade, choisi par la cordée pour faire monter le second et pour effectuer les manœuvres d'assurage.

CONT

[...] les membres d'une cordée vont progresser l'un après l'autre en s'amarrant à des relais, points d'arrêt le plus confortables possible où l'on place plusieurs points d'assurance [...] De préférence, on établit un relais sur une terrasse ou plate-forme [...]

OBS

Dans certains contextes, le terme «relais» désigne les ancrages naturels ou artificiels qui servent de points de relais (belay points).

Spanish

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