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Dariusz Kwasny
ROCK
CLIMBING
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Chapter no 1: Introduction to Rock climbing
Rock climbing is a type of competitive sport and a healthy physical activity. In this activity, persons who take part in it, climb up and across the rock. This practice is done on both natural rock structures and also on artificial rock slopes.
In this activity only the mission is to the cross the difficult rock formations and to reach the end point through a pre-decided way without falling.
You should have strong physical and mental abilities for this sport. Participant’s abilities are checked by rock climbing activity. Their strength, way of managing balance, keeping mental control and quick and right decision on the spot are tested by this activity.
Rock climbing is a healthy and energetic activity but without information of proper climbing techniques it can be dangerous.
There is a huge range and variety of rocks structures and shapes in all over the world. So particular climbing equipments are necessary to cross these difficult ups and downs routes of rocks. These also keep you safe and secure.
Strength is not the only required element for climbing but it is maintaining balance, awareness about your body that it can adjust according to the required space and manage it according to the rock.
In the procedure of rocks climbing all body parts involve and play their part in the struggle. Your upper body parts do hard work to push your body upwards and your legs and feet play vital role and use as an instrument for upward movements.
Rock climbing requires full attention on the task. It is only done by concentrating on your goal and keeping a side your fear. Then you can achieve the task.
It is not necessary that only in young age or exactly fit persons can adopt the activity of wall climbing. Age doesn't count for this purpose. There are many people of old age are excellent climbers because of their hardworking nature and constantly in mood.
As you climb up the rock you explore the natural world. Not only has the world which is existed around you but also a world inside you. When discovering the new world around you see many beautiful scene and heart touching places.
Rock climbing does not involve only one person but also it is a team work. So it is also called social sport.
You can reach on the top of a rock only by your ability but if you slip and fall so it is your companions who save your life and help to continue your mission.
Climbing of rocks is as you learn any new thing to do like ride a bike or drive a car. You only need to learn some basic moves. After that only practice of many years make you strong and perfect in these moves.
Rock climbing basically involves bouldering, in which you can do practice on small pieces of rocks. Only on climbing few feet high rock you can understand and estimate the difficulty of hundred feet high rock. In this practice only the plus point is that you can climb and practice without rope so no fear of fall off. You can jump easily on the ground from the rock.
In free climbing you can climb up the rock by using special equipments for moving in upward direction. In this method your arms, hands and other body parts do work for climbing. You can use gear only for safety purpose.
Advance techniques of rock climbing include trade.
Traditional or trade climbing is a type of rock climbing in which a person or a group keep all gear needed to protect from falls and remove it when the route is completed. So these gears are used for protection purposes without damaging the rock. A trad climber always carries rack of climbing gears including cams, nuts and hexes which get fixed into the cracks in the wall. These all instruments are of different shapes. And easily can fix in holes or cracks. As by this method rock can’t be damaged so it is called clean climbing.
In trad climbing due to tiredness of your body by pulling your body in upward direction it is also a possibility that you can stay on rocks for many days. So you should have sleeping bags with required necessities. This type of climbing requires technical expertise with a strong mind.
Climbing on the rock alone without any protection is much more dangerous. You have no option to fall down. So solo climbing depends only by knowing your own limits and trust in your right decisions.
Ice climbing is also an adventurous activity. In ice climbing, climbers take help from ice axes to move up through the frozen water falls.
Chapter no 2: History of rock climbing
Sport of rock climbing starts in 1880 in the Lake District and Wales in Great Britain
In 1887 a young boy George Winkler, when he was at the age of 17 years began the sport of rock climbing.
History of rock climbing is very interesting and deep’ whenever a man saw the rock he tried to climb over it, it looks amazing but that’s true.
The people who lived in mountainous areas, rock climbing has become the necessity of those people.
In older times, town people lived and built their homes in cliffs and rocks and used them as a shelter.
Rock climbing techniques have been evolved by many winning armies, who fought in mountainous areas and climbed up castles and fortresses and used their structures for defense and protection purposes.
In the late 1800 rock climbing became and considered as a sport rather than a game reaching from one place to another.
During Victorian era the study of natural world was commonly a fashionable issue and the rock climbing rose up as a famous sport during this era.
Walter parry Haskett smith was a solo climber who first climbed up the Napes nddle in
The late 1880 traditionally this climbing was considered as the birth of rock climbing as a sport.
This climb became very famous and publicized, after this sixty climbers decided together to climb up this natural peak.
Emilio Comici, is considered by many people as the father of advance rock climbing. He was the climber in 1930 and explored many climbing aids like solid belays, hanging bivouacs and the method of using of the tag line. Emilio comici is also famous for discovering big wall climbing and advance techniques.
Ordinary people think that the rock climbing is a