0 the sport of climbing on rocks, up mountains, or up walls or buildings using no equipment to help you to climb, only ropes or other safety devices that prevent falling:
Free climbing means clambering up rocks on one's own, with ropes and anchoring devices only for protection against falls.
Their amazing display of free climbing opened the eyes of other climbers to the possibilities of scaling the intimidating 300-metre-high gorge walls without recourse to artificial aids.
Followers of increasingly popular extreme skiing, un-roped free climbing, and base jumping all chase danger.
He was said to have achieved a point in free climbing technique "close to the limit of the possible".
Free climbing has since been divided into several sub-styles of climbing dependent on belay configuration.
Caldwell is accomplished in several types of climbing, including sport climbing, hard traditional climbing, big-wall speed climbing and big-wall free climbing.
Consequently, he would have condemned most modern climbing, even what we call free climbing, as artificial aid!
Speed records for free-climbing and solo-aid(speed) climbing are also kept, but these fields are less competitive.
