piton in the PONS Dictionary

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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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Modern traditional climbs only occasionally have fixed gear (pitons or bolts), except in the case where cracks are lacking to place adequate removable gear.
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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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He uses the spur as a combination climbing ax and makeshift piton.
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It conceals a piton hidden behind the buckle.
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Soft pitons are difficult to remove without damaging the piton, so they were frequently left in place, and became fixed anchor points on a climb.
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Frost has described his profession as piton engineer.
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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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Rock scarring caused by pitons was an important impetus for the emergence of the term, and the initial reason climbers largely abandoned 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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