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Note that any use of pitons, whether as protection, or as belay or rappel anchors would be unethical, except under dire need.
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Mastering the art of down-climbing also eliminates the need for piton protection while leading the climber's skill and self-confidence is his protection.
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The smallest size can also work well in old piton scars.
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Between time spent surfing and climbing, he sold pitons out of the back of his car to support himself.
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His party did not use pitons or any artificial devices and did not progress far up the face.
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Frost has described his profession as piton engineer.
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It is also considered bad style to install new protection bolts or pitons on existing climbs that can be completed without them.
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Repeated hammering and extraction of pitons damages the rock, and climbers who subscribe to the clean climbing ethic avoid their use as much as possible.
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The journey is a test of one's endurance and traveling one foot on front of the other foot instead of ropes and pitons.
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Until the 1940s protection was provided by the piton, driven into a crack in the rock with a hammer and stoppers.
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