climbing history
The climbing is a adventure sport Ideal to practice throughout the year and stay in shape without realizing it, since you work practically all the muscles of your body.
If you like to participate in the adventure races , it is almost essential to take a course, to be familiar with the techniques , especially when many hours of races go and you need to know What and how to do during string disciplines.
It is a simple sport to practice where the only thing you need is the basic equipment that enters a backpack and that consists of a harness, shoes, ropes, carabiners, helmet and insurance.
It has the advantage that having a wall or wall near your house, you can practice it at any time and if you like being in contact with nature and doing hikes in the mountains, it is very useful to be prepared with the equipment, because there is usually always a moment when it is needed.
This sport grew a lot from the 80s, however it is one of the oldest disciplines . It had its origin in Europe several centuries ago, it is known that the emperors of Rome Adriano and Trajan
They also practiced Escalada sport famous characters such as the great poet of the Italian Renaissance, Francesco Petrarca, who climbed in 1336 the top of the top of the Mont Ventoux (Pyrenees).
Leonardo da Vinci, Bembo, Simler, Gessner and other figures of humanism, practiced the climbing moved by the love of nature and by that great attraction and desire to contemplate the world from the heights.
In America during the Spanish conquest, soldiers Francisco Pizarro ascended the Andean summits.
Despite being a discipline that was born in Europe, it was the Americans who at the end of the 20th century led it to its highest level and we can say that today it is practiced in almost everyone.
There are more and more athletes who want to climb and conquer the mountains.
The Aconcagu time in 1895 by a Swiss climber called zubriggen . Today there are hundreds of athletes who at the beginning of each year, at which time can be ascended, manage to make their summit on the north face.
Types of climbing
There are several forms of climbing. Sports escalation is the discipline in which it does not matter the fact of conquering a mountain, but what counts is how it is scale, with which difficulty .
The advantage of the sports climbing is that it can be practiced in any wall, wall or rock, without having to face the nature and all the dangers that one faces when a mountain is scaled. This type of climbing emerged at the beginning of the 70s, as a form of training in cities, complementary to the rock escalation .
Within the sports escalation are the modalities called boulder in which it is climbed without ensuring but at a height to which we can jump to the floor without inconvenience and Buldering which means climbing in Buildings, walls, walls or climbing.
- The free climbing is the assured escalation without using the assurance means for ascension.
- The solo escalation is the most dangerous way where it is climbed without rope.
courses
The basic climbing course is for all who want to start in this sport, there are generally four practical theoretical classes in an artificial or natural wall.
As is a risk sport it is essential
Once you are familiar with sport you can try to do some output to the mountain , usually the schools organize them during the year and I assure you that if you like nature and adventure < /Strong>, these types of programs are spectacular and you can also do them together with your family.
