Activity for Dawny33
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A: What are the wall-cleaners in climbing called? What equipment/gear do they use? Thanks to the help from this amazing guy at Reddit, I have got an answer for the question: Usually when you prepare a route for a first ascent you clean it, if it gets a decent amount of traffic then no further cleaning should be needed later on. But on alpine routes, long multi-pitches or bi... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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What are the wall-cleaners in climbing called? What equipment/gear do they use? I have been watching this climbing video of Alex Honnold. In this video his friend goes ahead of him and cleans the wall of any debris or slippery rocks. What are these people who clean the walls for the climbers called? Or is it just the only one instance where a person actually cleaned a wall fo... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |