Bivouac shelter
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A bivouac shelter or bivvy is any of a variety of improvised camp site or shelter that is usually of a temporary nature, used especially by soldiers or people engaged in backpacking, bikepacking, scou
A bivouac sack (in red) covering a man within a sleeping bag in Benediktenwand, Germany
The Nose (El Capitan)
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The Nose is a big wall climbing route up El Capitan. Once considered impossible to climb, El Capitan is now the standard for big wall climbing. It is recognized in the historic climbing text Fifty Cla
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…use by the troops of the British Empire the term became also known as bivvy for short. Construction Climbers using a 'hanging bivouac' at Camp 5 on The Nose of El Capitan Artificial bivouacs can be constructed using a variety of available materials from corrugated iron sheeting or plywood, to groundsheets…
The Nose on El Capitan
Billy Westbay, Jim Bridwell, and John Long after the first one-day ascent of the Nose in 1975 that used aid climbing techniques (e.g., not full free climbing)
View down the face of El Capitan from the belay stance at the top of pitch 20 (also known as Camp IV). The vertical drop from this point to the valley floor is about 2,000 feet (610 m).
Great Roof as seen from the standard belay stance. With a climber at the end of the lens flare.