spring-loaded camming deviceisn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help!
Add a definition
Traditional climbers developed thespring-loadedcammingdevice, which increased safety over chocks, hexes, and pitons.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Prior to the introduction of spring-loaded camming devices (in about 1980), clean climbing involved a safety trade-off in certain situations.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
They are often preferred by alpine mountaineers over spring-loaded camming devices because of their lack of moving parts and overall lower weight for the same size crack.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Henry was an active climber before the era of spring-loaded camming devices that made protecting cracks without pitons feasible.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Most of the cracks are smooth sided and parallel, necessitating the use of many spring-loaded camming devices and efficient crack climbing technique.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.