Ice climbing is a climbing discipline that involves ascending routes consisting entirely of frozen water. To ascend, the ice climber uses specialist equipment, particularly double ice axes and rigid c
Xaver Bongard [de] on Crack Baby (350 metres, IV, WI6), Switzerland
Lead climber on Symphonie d'Automne (135-metres, WI4), France, about to clip their rope into a quickdraw that is hanging from an ice screw that thay have inserted
Central Pillar (WI5+), Weeping Wall, Canada
Chéré Couloir (WI4 M3), France
A climbing route is a path by which a climber reaches the top of a mountain, a rock-face, or an ice-covered obstacle. Climbing routes are recorded in a climbing guidebooks and/or in online climbing-ro
Various alpine climbing routes highlighted in colour on the north face of Les Droites in the Alps