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n. (plural of crampon English)
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A crampon is a traction device that is attached to footwear to improve mobility on snow and ice during ice climbing. Not only are crampons used during ice climbing, but they are also used for secure travel on snow and ice, such as crossing glaciers, snowfields and icefields, ascending snow slopes, and scaling ice-covered rock. There are three main attachment systems for footwear: step-in, hybrid, and strap bindings. The first two require boots with welts, as a tension lever attaches the crampon to the heel. The last type (strap bindings) are more versatile and can adapt to virtually any boot or shoe, but often do not fit as precisely as the other two types.
Oscar Eckenstein designed the first 10-point crampon in 1908, dramatically reducing the need for step cutting. This design was then made commercially available by the Italian Henry Grivel.
Usage examples of "crampons".
I did the same, digging crampons in as hard as I could, fully expecting the crevasse to pull the bug in and then me.
Almost forty feet down, hanging headfirst under an icy overhang so that only his crampons and butt caught the light, he looked as if he might be in trouble.
If one of us slipped or caught his crampons on a rock rather than ice, it was up to that person to stop his slide by self-arrest with his ice axe.
The best idea is not to think about that, just keep points attached to the snowslope at all times and make damned sure that no matter how tired you were, that you paid attention to where you kicked your crampons into the ice.
But we were moving so slowly that tugging our boots on seemed to take hours, adjusting our crampons took forever.
When I started to step up the slope diagonally I sat down in the snow and clipped crampons to my boots.
Sanner kicked up a second shower of ice shavings as he dug his crampons into the ice.
Two sets of crampons, a lightweight aluminum shovel, and a set of ice axes were strapped to the outside of the pack.
The aluminum snowshoes were light and had steely-toothed crampons on the bottom that gripped snow crust well.
He slung the backpack to the ground and unhitched the two sets of crampons, steel skeletons that would attach to the bottoms of our boots.
Like the snowshoes, long razor-sharp steel teeth stuck out from the bottoms of the crampons, but these teeth were longer and sharper, made for ice.
The crampons had an extra pair of teeth the snowshoes did not have and they jutted straight out from the toe at ninety-degree angles.
When you feel me tug three times, turn your face to the wall here, dig the toes of your crampons in, and walk up.
Spread-eagle against the ice, slinging axes, right and left, one after another, digging steel-toothed crampons toe-first into the wall, Jack crawled vertically up.
Beane roared in pain and arched away from the deadly crampons, spurting blood.