1) Alp-climbing gear 2) Apt anagram of point 3) Beer in the Caribbean 4) Bit of climbing gear 5) Climber''s aid 6) Climbing aid 7) Climbing equipment 8) Climbing gadget 9) Climbing spike 10) Edmund Hillary gear 11) French word used in English 12) Mountain climbing accessory 13) Necessity for Hillary
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1) Spike
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In climbing, a piton (n; also called a pin or peg) is a metal spike (usually steel) that is driven into a crack or seam in the rock with a hammer, and which acts as an anchor to protect the climber against the consequences of a fall, or to assist progress in aid climbing. Pitons are equipped with an eye hole or a ring to which a carabiner is attac...
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[beer] Piton is a Pilsner beer brand from the island of Saint Lucia, brewed by Windward & Leeward Brewing Limited, which is owned by Heineken. The beer was named for the Gros Piton and Petit Piton mountains on the island. It was first brewed on October 7, 1992. Windward and Leeward Brewing website ...
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A metal spike that can be hammered into rock cracks for protection. A type of anchor rejected by Trads.
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A spike (driven into rock) to which ropes are attached during climbing or rigging.
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(from the article `mountaineering`) ...with discretion rather than in abundance. Anchors include the chock, which is a small piece of shaped metal that is attached to rope or wire cable ...
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[Fr.] A metal spike designed to be hammered into rock (or screwed into ice), with a loop for passing a rope through. Prohibited in most places in the East, because they permanently alter the rock. (Different rules apply for ice climbing.)
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A piton is a metal spike used in mountaineering as a support for a belaying pin.
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n] - a metal spike with a hole for a rope
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noun a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold
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A thin, wedge like piece of metal that is pounded into a rock face and then clipped to the climbing rope for protection. The original means of protecting climbs, now out of favor because of the damage it does to the rock.
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