to congeal. But the insane people for adventure pass hours and until days with the face against one glacier or waterfall (in English) frozen, using pickaxes and ropes to scale a fine, rugosa and threatening surface. The taste for the danger. I go to fall in a glacier crack? My body goes to congeal? Uma avalanche it goes to appear of the nothing? He is it who makes these practitioners if to get passionate for this sport. The scaling in ice evolved of scaling in rock e other montanhistas activities. In high altitudes, the escaladores needed to know as to sail in frozen and slippery areas, while a mountain or face of rock went up. Eventually, they had started to develop specialized tools and equipment to surpass such frozen areas. With the time, the escaladores had started to only look for also for scalings in ice.
We can say that the sprouting of the scaling in ice occurred in 1908, when a escalador, Oscar Eckenstein, created dentated claws called bases of chainses, that they were incased under of the boot. These chainses allowed that the escalador got traction in the slippery ice. Before the invention of chainses, the escaladores needed to use cut-I pass, a laborious method to open areas in the snow and the ice with a pickaxe or machadinha, to create a track.
In years 30, the escalador Laurent Grivel made another significant advance. It added sharp canine tooth leaving the front of chainses, allowing that the escaladores sailed on the extreme ice. Then, in years 60, Yvon Chouniard, that it decided to create the line of Patagonia clothes, revolutionized design of axes for ice. First, it it reduced the size of 25 counts (63,5 cm) for 22 counts (55,8 cm). Later, it changed the format of the traditional pickaxe, that at the time was straight line in a flat angle until the handle. This flat angle was finishes for the scaling in regular ice, but it was not efficient for more abundant snow and ice. The bending pickaxe entered more easily in the ice and also it was more easy of being removed.
Today, many equipment of security and tools become the scaling in ice accessible any one. You can frequentar scaling lessons; it can make scaled less extenuantes under sun, or to undertake scaled advanced of some days in temperatures below-freezing. With the correct training, almost everybody obtains to scale in the ice, contanto that the cardiovascular condition is excellent and also a good ratio weight/force. Specialists recommend specific exercises to prepare its body for the first scaling, being included agachamentos, deadlifts, overhead press, flexões, step and bars.Equipment for scaling in ice
The scaling in ice requires different equipment of scaling in rock common. The equipment for scaling in ice specialized of today evolved from the traditional tools for scaling to allow to more flexibility and security in the ice and in snow. They are tons of tools to choose, depending on its ability, its land and the personal preference.
The tools for the ice are the parts most important and more expensive than a necessary escalador. When the escaladores say on tools for the ice, them are if relating what the people generally call axes. In fact, a tool for ice acts as one machadinha. You make right the ice with it and she uses it as a support them legs when going up. The head of the tool possesss two sides, with a pickaxe of a side and in the other, one adze, tool similar to the used slitter to open holes in the ice, or hammer. Two varieties of tools for ice exist: traditional and leashless (without leather strap).
![]() © istockphoto.com/Adventure Photo Axe for ice |
Uma traditional tool for ice it includes a leather strap that you mooring cable in the hands to help it not to lose it the tool. It is well easy to knock down a tool and its does not go to serve for nothing will be fallen the 20 feet (6 meters) below of you. A tool with leather strap also is useful case you loses its track and needs to be hung in the ice until reaching it again. It is clearly that its rope and the handles also will go to hold it, and its tool for ice will not be the only protection.
tool for ice without leather strap, on the other hand, it is less desconfortável and with it it is more easy to change of tools when you it will not be moored to the equipment. The tools without leather straps are if becoming each more popular time it enters the experienced escaladores because of flexibility. They are available in some weights and sizes, and many escaladores load some tools, depending on the type of scaling they will make. Os preços de ferramentas para neve variam entre US$100 e $350.
As we mention previously, the chainses are necessary a escalador to get traction on the snow and the ice. As constraints, chainses they are metal tips that leave the boots underneath and sink in the ice while you scale. You can arrest or moor chainses under of the boots or using boots with inlaid chainses. You also need to decide if she wants to use chainses with points one or two. The chainses generally possess tips that leave the part of the front of the footwear and generally they make the first contact with the ice. Chainses of a point they possess an only point in the front, whereas chainses of colon they possess colon in the front. Each type has its advantages. Of a point they tend to be more flexible stops mixing scalings, when the land varies of ice for rock during the course of a scaling. The chainses of a point better offer penetration in the ice and of colon they offer more stability, however little penetration. Some chainses also present spurs.
![]() © istockphoto.com/Robert Caucino Escalador uses boots with chainses |
The escaladores if protect against falls with the use of screws for ice e ropes. They call this process protection. While its scaling progresses, you place screws for ice in strategical areas and she arrests them in a rope that will save its life, case you falls. Well placed screws obtain to support hundreds of pounds or kilos of force. But one remembers: the screws for ice are only so resistant how much the ice where you it screwed them. We will say more on measures of security for scaling in the ice in this article.
If helmet does not forget it! You it will need it to protect the head and the eyes of the ice pieces that fall. E, is clearly, clothes and appropriate gloves for the cold climate will be necessary.























