Mountain-climbers' grips

Usage examples of handholds.

As before, there were many foot- and handholds, but it was all friable rottenrock, chunks of which came off in his hands, and grains of stone worked their way into his skinless palms.

Leah Brahms had to stop every meter or so to bum more handholds and footholds with her phaser.

Foot- and handholds were many and easy, but the rock was rotten and friable, and each stance had to be tested carefully, each hold tugged to make sure it would not come away in his hand.

The metal was warm to his touch after being in the sun-warmed backpack, and his fingers, stiff and cramped from gripping at handholds, fumbled.

Gemini itself, which, being the last in the series, had been modified by McDonnell to provide some sixteen extra handholds and footclamps.

Hanging twelve feet in the air, she began to inch caution sly toward the far balcony, feeling her handholds and footholds in the foliage.

Using the handholds, his body drifting parallel to the overhead, he made his way forward with less effort than if he had been swimming, and disappeared through the forward hatchway.

Reorienting himself, he spotted what looked like more handholds on the deck below the rail, and he shoved the toes of his boots under two of them to keep his feet planted.

Cunningly I wedged my toes into crevices as I reached for the handholds above.

Then things grew a little more difficult, and I found that I had to lunge at some of the handholds, leaping up to them and leaving myself unsupported for a moment as I made the reach.

Frederick, and in a moment the three new arrivals were following Hannoken and Lois down a corridor, pulling themselves along with handholds fastened to the walls.