The activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep object. It is done indoors and out, on natural and man-made structures.
It includes mountain climbing/mountaineering, rock-climbing/sports climbing, bouldering, ice-climbing, and many more disciplines
Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep object. It is done indoors and out, on natural and manmade structures.
Disciplines include mountain climbing or mountaineering, rock-climbing, sports climbing (where you climb one length of a rope in a protected setting) in a gym or at an outdoor crag (that can be very different from a mountain), big wall or multi-pitch climbing (climbing long routes), bouldering (again in- and outdoors, you have a mat and climb only low heights so that falling is still safe), ice-climbing (frozen waterfalls or giant freezers), Deep Water Solo (you climb without protection and fall into the water below), climbing trees, ropes, and ...
