A piton (/ˈpiːtɒn/; also called pin or peg) in big wall climbing and in aid climbing is a metal spike (usually steel) that is driven into a crack or seam...
200 km3 (36 to 48 cu mi). The peak is marked by a small crater, named El Pitón, forming an opening 100 m (330 ft) in diameter and 30 m (98 ft) deep. A...
dacitic domes of Petit Piton (109 kya) and Gros Piton (71 kya) were then extruded onto the depression floor accompanied by the Anse John (104 kya) and La Pointe...
on a short handle, and no spike. See also rock hammer. ice piton A long, wide, serrated piton that can be used for weak protection on ice. ice screw Modern...
‹ The template Infobox climber is being considered for merging. › John Bachar (March 23, 1957 – July 5, 2009) was an American rock climber. Noted for his...
Cassin on famous routes across the European Alps. In 1946, John Salathé developed a piton made from high-carbon chrome-vanadium (salvaged from the axles...
climber Paul Preuss started what became known as the Mauerhakenstreit (or "piton dispute"), by advocating for a transition to "free climbing" via a series...
with Jimmy Chin (2022) Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold (2024) 2010: Golden Piton Award [fr] from Climbing magazine, for endurance climbing 2010: The film...
in the lavas of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa in Hawaiʻi[3], Curaçao, in the Piton de la Fournaise[4] volcano on Réunion Island and various other oceanic island...
started making hardened steel pitons for use in Yosemite Valley. Between time spent surfing and climbing, he sold pitons out of the back of his car to...
temperatures. The climbing team relied heavily on aid climbing, using rope, pitons and expansion bolts to make it to the summit. The second ascent of The Nose...
Jakarta Post. 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2019. Nurhadi (2017). "Beginilah Ular Piton Menelan Akbar Petani Sawit Memuju Tengah". Tribun Timur (in Indonesian)...
only one World Heritage Site, Morne Trois Pitons National Park, which was inscribed in 1997. Morne Trois Pitons National Park Wikimedia Commons has media...
General Cobb in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter" and as Gabriel Piton in Highlander: The Series. He also played Sam Jacobs in a two-part Waking...
assault in the siege of Nice. In 1533, Francis I sent colonel Pierre de Piton as ambassador to Morocco, initiating official France-Morocco relations....
edge of a volcano." A volcanic crater, M. and K. Krafft Crater, on the Piton de la Fournaise volcano in Réunion, France, is named after the couple. The...
1815), but also during effusive eruptions on the flanks of a volcano (see Piton de la Fournaise in 2007) or in a connected fissure system (see Bárðarbunga...
reaches a height of 670 m (2,200 ft); the highest peak is in the south-west, Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire at 828 metres (2,717 ft). Streams and rivers...
larger hexes, in preference to pitons, which damage rock and are more difficult and time-consuming to install. Pitons were thus eliminated in North America...
spear; to be tied to the body for concealment; to be used as an anchor or piton, and sometimes to be used as the Chinese rope dart. Contrary to popular...
other British climbers of his era he was passionately against the use of pitons. Edwards described that he "grew up exuberant in body but with a nervy,...
island consists of an active shield-volcano (Piton de la Fournaise) and an extinct, deeply eroded volcano (Piton des Neiges). Three cirques have eroded there...
Salathe Wall on El Capitan in 6-days (484 pitons, 13 bolts); 5.9 A4. Single push by Robbins & Frost in 1962. 1961 : John Gill makes the first free ascent as...
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