Remote Adventurer

Lightweight climbing that emphasizes the role of speed in safety to take advantage of good conditions that might prevail only a short time.

The point where the rope is secured to the snow, ice or rock with either fixed bolts, rocks, trees or non-fixed gear to provide protection against a fall. An equalized anchor (equalized anchor system) places equal weight on multiple devices to reduce the chance of failure. Any individual anchor point, whether created with one piece of protection or with multiple pieces in an equalized anchor, must be able to hold a fall. The condition of the rock, snow or ice determines whether an individual anchor device will provide adequate security or whether an equalized anchor is required.

A sharp, narrow mountain ridge. It often results from the erosive activity of alpine glaciers flowing in adjacent valleys.

Rock Climbing: The tendency of the body to swing outward away from the wall on steep terrain when the center of gravity is not centered between points of contact.

Rock Climbing: A multi-pitch climb that typically takes more than a day to complete.

Rock Climbing: To use an intermediate handhold to shift to a higher hold without changing the body position. Military: To engage with or be engaged by the enemy. "bumped" as in "contact".

The diameter of a projectile and/or the bore of the barrel through which it is fired. Usually expressed in millimetres or inches, the standard weapon of the Australian soldier was the SMLE .303 where the calibre was .303 inches which equates to 7.62mm.