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pitons
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n. (plural of piton English)
Wikipedia
The Pitons are two mountainous volcanic plugs, volcanic spires, located in Saint Lucia. The Gros Piton is high, and the Petit Piton is high; they are linked by the Piton Mitan ridge. The Pitons are a World Heritage Site in size and located near the town of Soufrière.
Usage examples of "pitons".
As he inched down, he came upon the first of the pitons he had driven in before, snapped a carabiner into the first and tied off a doubled line, threading and snapping in another at each piton, to shorten his fall, should he come off the face.
The flanges released their grip and the pitons withdrew into the mounts.
He had strongly advised against driving as many pitons as the climb would require.
He looked down once and I could imagine how he felt with only the rope running now through three pitons to hold him.
The crevices were too shallow for the pitons and he was white with cold, his clothes heavy with water.
The cave specialist was already stationed beside one of the larger pits in the floor, fishing a knotted rope and pitons from his equipment bag with his usual energy and enthusiasm.
There was a long pause, then the rope wriggled against its pitons as Sanner clambered farther down it.
As his sense of struggling upward and upward grew more intense he began, desperately, to formulate the memory of the cliff-climbing, ice-and-rock techniques he had learned as a boy at Nevarsin, as if he were dragging himself up rough-cut hand- and footholds, fixing imaginary ropes and pitons to help him haul his reluctant body upward.
In the breast pocket of his smock, Mallory carried the special pitons Jonas Schenck had made for him in 1938, out of the rear springs of a Model A Ford.
The shipment of pitons lay gleaming in their crates while teams of technicians proceeded with installation.
Felt them dig into the dirt, felt the spacecraft lift slightly as weight was transferred from the landing gear, watched the lamps stay amber until a string of lights indicated the pitons were fully extended.
They would not be able to retract on the Possum, where the pitons would be anchored in rock.
They went through the exercise a second time, after which the pitons received a thorough cleaning and lubrication.
Instead, two self-seating pitons exploded from their sheaths and bit deep into the rock.
Then he made a quick check of the side pocket of his pack to make sure he had the standard assortment of pitons for various kinds of fissures.