LVMC
This LVMC peak features a distinctive "sarcophagus" shape; hikers often traverse its "tummy" or "toe."
What is Mummy Mountain?
A type of climbing that may require the occasional use of hands for balance
What is Class 2?
This deep, wedge-shaped fissure or crack is found on a glacier's surface and is often a major hazard, sometimes hidden by a snow bridge.
What is a Crevasse?
Often referred to as "passive protection," these tapered pieces of metal are wedged into cracks and attached to the rope via a wire.
What are nuts or stoppers?
This is the general term for the controlled descent of a fixed or dynamic rope.
What is rappelling or abseiling?
This LVMC Peak is also the Arizona high point.
What is Humphreys Peak
The number of peaks with 5,000ft or more of prominence in the contiguous US. Also known as Ultras.
What is 57?
The french term for an ice axe
What is Piolet?
A climbing move in which the climber pushes against two opposing rock surfaces, often in a corner or a chimney, to move upward.
What is stemming?
This extreme danger in slot canyons involves a sudden, rapid increase in water flow, often triggered by distant rainfall.
What is a flash flood?
Formerly known as "Jeff Davis Peak," this mountain in the Snake Range was officially renamed to this Shoshone name.
What is Doso Doyabi?
The highest mountains on each of the world's continents
What are the Seven Summits?
The German term for the large, often deep crack that forms at the very head of a glacier, separating the moving ice from the stationary ice or rock of the mountain wall.
What is a Bergschrund (or 'schrund)?
This lightweight hitch knot, easily adjusted, is frequently used by a climber to anchor themselves to a belay station.
What is a clove hitch?
When the main anchor is questionable, canyoneers often employ a technique where one or more members backup the anchor with their body weight.
What is a meat anchor?
Hayford peak is in this mountain range.
What is the Sheep Range?
Due to its 1980 eruption, this mountain lost over 1,300 feet of its summit and now stands approximately 8,363 feet tall.
What is Mt St. Helens?
This Seattle climber, the first American to summit Mount Everest in 1963, also served as CEO of the outdoor retailer REI.
Who is Jim Whittaker?
Often considered the best climber in the world, this Czech athlete was the first to redpoint a 5.15c, Change, and the hardest route in the world, Silence (5.15d).
Who is Adam Ondra?
The art of descending a canyon and leaving nothing behind.
What is ghosting?
The number of LVMC 50 peaks that are also Ultras (5k prominence)
What is 10? (Arc Dome, Mount Jefferson, Wheeler Peak, North Schell Peak, Hayford Peak, Charleston Peak, Telescope Peak, Mount Whitney, White Mountain Peak, Humphreys Peak)
This peak, the highest in Canada and the second highest in North America, is located in the Yukon Territory and is a major high-altitude peakbagging target.
What is Mount Logan?
This type of acute medical condition, often fatal, is caused by swelling of the brain tissue due to a lack of oxygen at high altitude.
What is High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE)?
This 5.13a El Capitan route, a variation of the Salathé Wall, was the one that Alex Honnold free soloed, as documented in the film Free Solo.
What is Free rider?
The preferred type of webbing knot for connecting two pieces of webbing into a loop for an anchor, as it is strong, secure, and easy to check.
What is a water knot?