[8] Editor's Note: "An alpine route is usually climbed on glacial fissures and mixed ice-rock terrain, usually starting in the valley and then heading towards a certain mountain top."
What is alpine climbing?
"Alpine climbing - most representative of mountaineering."
Reinhold Messner - developed 2,000 new alpine ice climb climbing routes and the first to complete 14 8,000-meter peaks worldwide.
Prepare to challenge the ice-rock mixed terrain...
Sorrow Route Yushan main peak north wall 2002
In this article, I will explain to you what is the spirit of Alpine climbing, which has been popular in Europe for more than 100 years. At the beginning of the Alps, people began to explore all the nearby mountains because of scientific and military reasons. The area that was previously scarce to enter because of superstition and Other mythological taboos. When the end of the nineteenth century, all the tops of the mountains were conquered. When the golden age of the climb was almost over, the real alpine climbing began. Mountaineers began to find more difficult routes to achieve their goals. They had just begun to improve from ice and snow, rock walls, and equipment, and then returned to the ice wall. After the technology and mentality had leapt, mountaineers began to climb the lines that they had dared to imagine. Any route could be successful. After completely explorating the mountains around them, these people began to bring the Alpine way to the highest mountains in the world. After conquering each hilltop, for reasons of sport, they began to seek the same mountain on different routes.
“An alpine route is usually climbed with glacial fissures and mixed ice-rock terrain, usually starting in a valley and then heading towards a certain mountain top.†-- Technical description
In addition to Europe, Others are classified in the Alpine region, such as Rockies Rockies in North America, Southern Alps in the South Island of New Zealand, Andes in Andes, and Patagonia in Patagonia. There are people in Himalayan and others who try this kind of exercise.
Only a few people in the country really know this type of climbing. In the early 1984 on Zulu Xifeng, the Himalayas Club Zhang Minglong had a new alpine route. The RCC club, through Chen Yanyan, a good cadre, led the team to open two routes on the same day in Yushan, or within dozens of hours, climbed directly from the climbing port to the top of the hill. In 1995, NTU led the team by Lai Min-you and made a very determined determination to climb. On the northern tip of the central hill, they had no online support with the base camp. All the necessary equipment was carried in their backpacks.
In the same period, most Chinese people were only interested in altitude. Many people only challenged numbers, but they did not understand the significance of climbing behind them. When they climbed six miles, they wanted to spell seven meters and seven meters. After you go hard, even if you have casualties, you will still attack 80m. No matter if a mountain range is used to go up, whether you are actually a snowboard or a good rope on the mainland, you push Jumar. On the road to breathe bottled oxygen vigorously to the summit, as long as you reach a dream height of 8,000 meters, no one will question whether the top of the mountain at what price.
Up till now, many domestic teachers and coaches are still not very aware of the alpine climbing. On the surface they use some simple explanations. For example, they have little to eat, but only take "sticks" (French bread). With the cheese for food, or some coaches say, everyone climbs independently does not need to knot the rope team! Because it is faster, they think it makes them "alpine-style mountaineers."
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