- A
crampon is a
traction device attached to
footwear to
improve mobility on snow and ice
during ice climbing.
Besides ice climbing,
crampons are also used...
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Buffet Crampon SAS is a
French manufacturer of wind
instruments based in Mantes-la-Ville,
Yvelines department. The
company is the
world market leader...
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Wolfsangel (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlfsˌʔaŋəl],
translation "wolf's hook") or
Crampon (French pronunciation: [kʁɑ̃pɔ̃]) is a
heraldic charge from
mainly Germany...
- the heel and toe or a
single strip over the foot. Not to be
mistaken for
crampons used for ice climbing, ice
cleats are much
smaller and are
commonly used...
- to work with a
certain type of boot. The
final type of
crampon is an
automatic or step-in
crampon.
These use both the back and
front welt on a person's...
- to
perform a self-arrest if the
glissade starts to get out of control.
Crampons are
explicitly not used
while glissading as they can
cause serious injury...
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particularly double ice axes (or the more
modern ice tools) and
rigid crampons. To
protect the route, the ice
climber uses
steel ice ****s that require...
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crooked cross (Krummkreuz)
cross cramponned, cramponnée, or
cramponny in heraldry, as each arm
resembles a
crampon or angle-iron (German: Winkelmaßkreuz)...
- on the
moderate north-west slope.
Depending on snow and ice conditions,
crampons may be required. The
south wall of
Narodnaya is
steeper and less commonly...
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sloping rock and on snow, but have
become less
common with the
invention of
crampons.
Homemade hobnailed boots,
which provide traction on ice and snow, can...
