Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or other parts of the body to ascend a steep topographical object that can range from the world's tallest mountains (e.g. the eight thousanders ) to small boulders . Climbing is done for locomotion, sporting recreation, for competition, and is also done in trades that rely on ascension, such as construction and military operations. Climbing is done indoors and outdoors, on natural surfaces (e.g. rock climbing and ice climbing ), and on artificial surfaces (e.g. climbing walls and climbing gyms )
9-462: Climbing is the human activity of ascending a steep object with the hands and/or feet. Climbing , Climb or The climb may also refer to: Climbing The sport of climbing evolved by climbers making first ascents of new types of climbing routes , using new climbing techniques , at ever-increasing grades of difficulty , with ever-improving pieces of climbing equipment . Guides and guidebooks were an important element in developing
18-551: Is a traveling film festival that exclusively screens climbing and adventure films, and includes the Reel Rock climbing film series. The Dawn Wall The Dawn Wall is a 2017 American-Austrian documentary film directed by Josh Lowell and Peter Mortimer about Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson 's successful attempt to create the first-ever big wall free climbing route—which they christened The Dawn Wall —on
27-542: Is recognized by the IOC and GAISF and is a member of the International World Games Association ( IWGA ). Competition climbing has three parts: Competition ice climbing is a regulated sport of 'competitive ice climbing' that originated in the early 2000s, and which is done on outdoor or indoor climbing on artificial ice climbing walls that consist of ice and dry surfaces. The UIAA is
36-501: The 2020 Summer Olympics ) in that format that included competition lead climbing , competition bouldering , and competition speed climbing disciplines; competition ice climbing is not yet an Olympic sport. Rock climbing can trace its origins to the late 19th-century , and has since developed into several main sub-disciplines. Single-pitch and multi-pitch (and big wall) climbing, can be performed in varying styles (including aid, sport, traditional, free solo, and top-roping), while
45-455: The development of competition climbing , increased the popularity of rock climbing as a sport, and led to the emergence of professional rock climbers, such as Wolfgang Güllich , Alexander Huber , Chris Sharma , Adam Ondra , Lynn Hill , Catherine Destivelle , and Janja Garnbret . Climbing became an Olympic sport for the first time in the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo (see Sport climbing at
54-578: The governing body for competition ice climbing worldwide and their events include a lead ice climbing discipline and a speed ice climbing discipline. Competition ice climbing is not as yet an Olympic Sport. Climbing has been the subject of both narrative and documentary films. Notable climbing films include Touching the Void (2003), Everest (2015), Meru (2015), The Dawn Wall (2015), Free Solo (2018), 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021), and The Alpinist (2021). The Reel Rock Film Tour
63-710: The historic southeast face ( The Wall of Early Morning Light ) of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park , which had hitherto only been ascended by aid climbing techniques first pioneered by Warren Harding who make the first aided ascent of the face in 1970. The film premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam on November 18, 2017. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 100% of 18 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.7/10. Metacritic , which uses
72-444: The popularity of the sport in the natural environment. Early pioneers included Walter Bonatti , Riccardo Cassin , Hermann Buhl , and Gaston Rébuffat , who were followed by and Reinhold Messner and Doug Scott , and later by Mick Fowler and Marko Prezelj , and Ueli Steck . Since the 1980s, the development of the safer format of bolted sport climbing , the wider availability of artificial climbing walls and climbing gyms, and
81-419: The standalone discipline of bouldering (or boulder climbing) is by definition performed in a free solo format. Competition climbing (sometimes confusingly called "sport climbing"), is a regulated sport of 'competitive rock climbing' that originated in the 1980s, and which is done as indoor climbing on artificial climbing walls . The IFSC is the governing body for competition rock-climbing worldwide and
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