Not so long ago ascension on tops of mountains was sport only of professional climbers. Today everything changed, and the culture of active holiday and the extreme made mountain climbing the hobby available to all.
It is required to you
- - equipment for mountain climbing
Instruction
1. Mountain tourism allows to have incomparable thrills. Climbing the mountain assumes overcoming the various obstacles filling the mountainous terrain: steep slopes from snow, ice and rocks of different levels of danger and complexity.
2. To rise by the high mountain, complete the course of basic training, having gained knowledge of safety measures. Join school of mountain climbing, for example, in Turalp.
3. Pay special attention to equipment on which health and often the climber's life depends. The equipment has to be strong and have at the same time small weight, to be moisture resistant, to allow fast substitute at malfunction emergence.
4. In preparation of group equipment your participation isn't necessary if you, of course, not the instructor of group. But take care of personal equipment independently. Get the backpack for folding of necessary things. Fabric from which it is sewed has to be strong, and capacity to make from 80 to 100 kilograms. The best decision – the anatomic backpack with the thick zone belt and the dural framework.
5. For protection of the head against the icicles and rockfalls which are often found in mountains take the climbing helmet. The ice axe will help you with creation of artificial points of support when performing rise and descent. It is better to give preference to the all-metal tool as at the most inappropriate moment the wooden handle of the ice axe can break. The recommended kind of the tool – aysbayl, having more convenient shortened handle and the hammer instead of the shovel. One of necessities are also sticks telescopes. They facilitate rise and descent.
6. Take care of the system to which the safety cable fastens. It consists of the so-called arbor – belts around the belt and hips, the chest binding. These details unite by means of blocking – the edge of the five-meter main rope. Choose soft blocking that to you it was comfortable in the system.
7. Also crampons – the special metal platform imitating cat's claws will be necessary for conquest of top. Never you fix them on footwear with the low ankle, otherwise you risk to remain in mountains barefoot.
8. Don't forget about the starting device and the carbine. The trigger device allows to go down on the rope when it is necessary fixing situation. Carbines serve as the blocking element when it is necessary to connect something, for example, the hook to the rope.