Protection (climbing)

To return the Climbing as sure as possible, the majority of climbing use protections to avoid wounds with oneself and the others. There exist various manners of protecting a climbing:

the techniques of Assurage where climbing the place uses points of progression (temporary or permanent) in the rock in which it makes become to the cord by Mousqueton S. the insurer manually stops the fall of climbing by blocking the cord passed in a device of assurage.
To equip the way the top. Instead of to at the head assemble, the climbing one which has a means of access in top of the way arranges points of anchoring there or uses those existing to pass the cord there. The cord passes thus by the insurer on the ground, anchoring in top of the way and goes down again towards the climbing one. The cord then would be almost already completely tended if it were to occur a fall.
the mattress of block, or Crash landing pad , is a mattress, stuffed of a dense foam, placed on the ground. Its goal is to reduce the consequences of a bad fall on the ground. It is generally employed for the practice of the block where the ways are low height.
trimming. The paror places himself under the climbing one and tries to control the possible falls. Generally, its goal is to prevent that the climbing one lands badly, that it is reversed after having touched the ground, or that its head touches the ground.

The material used to protect the climbing is varied:

Of the rings of strap or cord can be tied around becquets or of trees, passed inside holes of the rock ( lunules ), passed around blocks wedged in cracks or passed around artificial anchorings like metal plates, chains or rings.
Of the Coinceur S or bicoins can be placed in contractings of cracks, and snap hooks are then connected there via a cable of metal or a ring of strap.
Of the mechanical coinceurs or friends is devices provided with cams in the shape of spiral which develop in a crack when they are subjected to a weight. They can even be placed in cracks at the parallel or evasive edges.
the plates or pins are placed at residence in a hole of the rock achieved by means of a drilling machine. They are then clippés with a snap hook by the climbing one. It is very rare to have to place oneself these points of anchoring during a climbing, because that implies to bore and possibly to place adhesive.
the Piton S can be hammered (or placed at the hand if that is sufficiently loose) in cracks and clippés (by their eye) with a snap hook.
the Crochet S are pieces of metal resisting which can be hooked on small small rules or scales of the rock and connected to a snap hook. They are usually used in artificial Escalade.

Protections with residence generally consist of fixed plates or pins or pitons. One finds sometimes rings of strap or cord. All the remainder left in place tends to be cleaned (recovered) by the other climbing ones.

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