How To Use Crampon In A Sentence
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This was followed by a level stretch of grassy scree which leads to the crux, a steep shallow chimney, well marked by crampon scratches.
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There are, of course, more conventional walks that don't involve the donning of crampons.
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Our tents are filled with clothes, down jackets, sleeping bags, woollen gloves and socks, snow boots, and tonnes of packed cream - sun-block, moisturiser, lip balm and cleanser - as well as the routine climbing paraphernalia of ropes, crampons, harnesses, descendeurs and carabiners.
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Now that it is snow-covered, it is great crampon mixed rock-ice training.
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Before breaking camp at the base of the Root, your guide will give you pointers on crampon use and safe route-finding.
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Don't touch metallic objects like ice axes, crampons, tent poles, or jewelry.
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When skiing downhill the bindings are locked, and skins and crampons removed.
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Barely breathing now, I moved my feet up, scrabbling my crampon points across the verglas.
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Boot soles are chevroned for hiking and accept crampons for climbing up icy chutes.
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An ankle strap will prevent the heel lever being released or the crampon being lost should it become disconnected from the boot.
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At first, it all seemed standard: boots fitted with spiky crampons, full-body harnesses, prusik slings, day-packs, assorted carabiners, coils of rope, medical sensors ....
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The snow underfoot is hard and crystalline, and grates beneath my crampons with a sound of metal on metal.
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After another hour of rigorous scrambling, we strapped on metal crampon spikes for the steepest part -- the summit block and its treacherous snowfields.
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Crampons fix onto your shoes to improve grip.
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Attached to the dummy is an adjustable frame that holds your ski boot via a clip such as those used with clip-on crampons.
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Each man was to go on a different food scale, eiderdown sleeping-bags were to be carried inside the reindeer ones, and a new kind of crampon and a double tent were to be tried.
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The 650-foot gully was so steep it required ice axes, crampons, ropes, and belays to ascend it.
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To scale the 35 metres you need climbing boots, crampons, two ice axes, a helmet, a harness, plus a head for heights.
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This month, alpinist Mark Synnott tests the sharpest new ice axes, crampons, ice screws, leashes, and screamers.
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Your local outfitter likely sells an array of crampons: hinged, semirigid, and rigid.
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The snow is smooth, unfrozen but dense enough for boot crampons.
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He reportedly found it very hard and was left hanging from his axes as both crampon placements broke loose nearing the top.
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But he saw three climbers remaining, the leadman suspended from a rope cramponed into the rock face perhaps a hundred feet down.
The Arsenal
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The crampons scraped across the kitchen floor, cutting grooves into the wood.
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Climbing kit includes climbing boots, crampons snow goggles, alpenstocks iceice pitons , piton hammers, and rope ladders.
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So carry a lightweight rope, harnesses, ice axe, crampons, and ascenders.
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In fact, you'd probably need crampons in order to walk.
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Four of the group had already traversed the slope on skis; the fifth was on crampons when a small snow slab of some 30 cm depth took him and another trainee over cliffs.
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Snap on your ski crampons if the going gets icy or your skins are slipping.
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This month, alpinist Mark Synnott tests the sharpest new ice axes, crampons, ice screws, leashes, and screamers.
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Then we climbed up with crampons and ascenders.
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An ankle strap will prevent the heel lever being released or the crampon being lost should it become disconnected from the boot.
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Or is it a cut-throat competition to secure the best available and top-paying jobs, where in the words of one officer: "You can hear the sound of crampons on bare flesh?
How to get to the policing top
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Until I met these fine folks, I couldn't have told you what a crampon or carabiner was if you paid me a million dollars!
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Attached to the dummy is an adjustable frame that holds your ski boot via a clip such as those used with clip-on crampons.
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Don't touch metallic objects like ice axes, crampons, tent poles, or jewelry.
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Anticipating a windscoured ridge, we left our crampons and axes in the col at the top of the chute.
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Armitage; but soon felt slush coming through his finnesko (he had no crampons) and made back for the Gap.
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It is a flip-flop with crampons, discarded by an alpinist on a beach holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hinged crampons are used for mountaineering and snow climbing, not ice climbing.
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We looked at our iceaxes, crampons and waterproofs with some humility.
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But, despite traversing steep alpine regions, he did not pack crampons, an ice axe or an emergency distress beacon.
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The cold, soft spindrift blew into my face as I crouched beside a boulder trying to strap crampons to my boots with frozen fingers.
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Hinged crampons are used for mountaineering and snow climbing, not ice climbing.
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I decided I'd better put on my crampons over my boots to grip the snow better, then tentatively stepped out onto the steep slope.
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The crampons went clack-clack, sharply, the metal points ringing in his ears with each step.
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Victor was a few feet below, moving like an exhausted old man as he front-pointed up slowly on his crampons.
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It is a flip-flop with crampons, discarded by an alpinist on a beach holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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I dumped my pack—with the unused rope, ax and crampon—and headed up.
Summit Meetings
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A full rack should be taken and ice axes and crampons may be needed up to about August.
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The 650-foot gully was so steep it required ice axes, crampons, ropes, and belays to ascend it.
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We put crampons over our boots, roped up and ascended the ice cliff in single file, using our ice picks to stabilize us at each step.
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Use good judgment and go to boot crampons and hand tools if need be.
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When skiing downhill the bindings are locked, and skins and crampons removed.
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Make sure your boot has enough welt to hold in the binding, just as you would for a step-in crampon.
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Strap on your crampons for an adrenaline-packed day of ice-climbing, or try dog sledding, snowshoeing, deer-watching, sledding, tobogganing or ice-skating on outdoor rinks.
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Maintain a wide stance to avoid snagging your pant legs on a crampon.
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A crampon spike snagged the ice and flipped me upside down.
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We put crampons over our boots, roped up and ascended the ice cliff in single file, using our ice picks to stabilize us at each step.
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He had focused on the familiar rhythms of ice pick and crampon, and the slow lift and push with each step.
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Frankly, I would have found it challenging with crampons and rope.
