jordansahls Posted February 8, 2008 Posted February 8, 2008 (edited) I was reading Mark Twight's book, "Extreme Alpinism", and I ran into a part where he started to talk about 'alpine aiding'. I don't realy know what that means. Is seemed to have to do with less attachments, or degrees of freedom, or something like that? Is it just aiding on the fly, or what? Basically I don't know anything about aiding. I stick mostly to alpinism (the non-aiding kind), trad, ect. Someone educate me! Edited February 8, 2008 by jordansahls Quote
G-spotter Posted February 8, 2008 Posted February 8, 2008 Is it just aiding on the fly, or what? ! Mixture of real aid, French free and free climbing with alpine rack . As opposed to big wall style with giant wall rack, portaledges, etc. like you might aid on El Cap with belay slave sending up extra pins on the tagline and changing tunes on the boombox for you. Quote
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