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Summary: Equipment needed for mountain climbing includes belay devices, harnesses, rope, carabiners, clamp-ons and an ice pick. Use mountain climbing equipment with the proper instructions with advice from an experienced rock climber in this free video on rock climbing equipment.
Scott Kiesling and has been rock climbing for more than 25 years. He has been a rescue climber for more than 10 years. He is also certified in single-rope techniques, top roping and...read more
"Hello my name is Scott and I'm the owner of Climb On indoor rock climbing gym in Wilmington, North Carolina. Today we are going to discuss the equipment needed for mountain climbing. The first thing that you would need is the proper instruction on how to do this. The best way to get that instruction is at your local indoor climbing gym from a local qualified professional. Some of the pieces of equipment that we would need are our harness, Belay device, rope, carabiners ice ax, and cramp ons. Each of these pieces of equipment takes proper instruction to learn how to use. Mountain climbing is inherently dangerous and you can have serious injury or death. Using this equipment is very important to getting up the mountain. Any time we use this equipment we want to make sure that we get the proper instruction on how to use it. This has been equipment for mountain climbing."
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