Talk:Rock climbing

This article was nominated for deletion on January 9, 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

Re: Indoor Climbing revert

Another article exists, Indoor climbing. Rather than needlessly increasing the length of this article, why not improve that one instead? Additionally, as someone stated previously, this isn't an article on climbing in England. Finally, citations are appreciated. --H4lf 14:49, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup

While this article is a good start, it could use citations and better organization. --H4lf 17:53, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Gabbro climbing area

I would be very curious to find out where a gabbro climbing area would be, given the rapid weathering characteristics of such ultra-mafics, and the relative scarcity of surficial occurrence. Perhaps a slowish cooling basalt lava? Location? Not exactly doubting, just very curious. Might have to plan a trip there!

There's gabbro on the Cuillin ridge of Skye (island off west coast of Scotland), remarkable stuff to climb on, great friction, even when wet.

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Once I complete a number of the other Yosemte related articles I am working on, I plan to add some of the history of Yosemite rock climing here, which has been very influential in North America. ClaudeMuncey

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I really don't understand why this page is called 'rock climbing' and yet it is obviously but a history/guide to the climbing in the British Isles... good information by any means, but maybe a little tweaking of the page title is in order... AdamMorgan

Request: danger of rock climbing

Any history about the dangers? It looks so dangerous. (Bjorn Tipling 01:39, 8 February 2007 (UTC))

A few other types

Deep-water(bouldering over water)

Czech style - no chalk, cams, or bolts

Climbing clubs

I propose that we move the list of climbing clubs to its own page, so that it does not become too large on the main page. Robogymnast 17:58, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

• That sounds reasonable. The list is far from complete (the most prominent of all is probably Club Alpin Français which is not there) and then there are the occasional spam entries. However, a "List of (prominent) climbing clubs" page will undoubtedly attract spam. There is already Category:Climbing organisations which includes all those climbing clubs which have Wikipedia articles; we could just link to that. Rwxrwxrwx 19:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

What about adding a see also link to Alpine Club, which covers most of them. Ice climbing is similar. Kevin 03:36, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

• A agree that the list should be removed or placed on its own page since it really has no direct link since some of the clubs are more towards alpine and mountaineering. Rsriprac 07:02, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Lead Climbing

Hey guys, nice work on this article, but we seriously need some help over here in Lead climbing. If any of you could give me a hand writing up a breif hsitory of lead climbing it would be greeat :-) (I'm finding it hard to find sources) Jason McConnell-Leech 07:34, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

categorization of types of climbing

I've cleaned up a bit on the distinctions between different types of climbing, especially outlining which techniques are sub-categories of lead climbing. This begs the question, though of how to organize these categories. There are many different aspects to each, indoor/outdoor, rock/route, lead/top-rope, sport/trad, free/aid. Most of these are orthoginal categories. I don't see a natural way to organize this.

This section is a mess ... very misleading. Lead climbing applies to both aid and free climbing. It could be seen in opposition to toproping.

The free climbing entry should mention that gear is used for protection. It should be distinguished from free soloing, in which no gear is used.

A route that is predominantly protected by bolts, even if they were placed on lead, is a sport climb, not a trad climb. Trad climbs are climbs that are protected primarily with gear placed by the leader.