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Modern sport climbing, or its various versions, has developed from mountaineering which was a sport that started in the European Alps. By the mid-1980s, the popularity of this new-old sport has spread globally and diversified to include new categories like ice climbing, bouldering, speed climbing, and aid climbing. The style in which a route is climbed and the difficulty involved now might be considered to be more important than reaching the summit itself. In style we refer to free climbing, which stands for a climb conducted using only the rock face formations, or aid climbing, when one can make his progress by using also various devices anchored into the wall, like a sling ladder. Simultaneously, in mountaineering, the routes to reach the summit became more and more difficult and started to fall into the definition of extreme climbing.
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Schöffl, V. (2013). Rock and Ice Climbing. In: Mei-Dan, O., Carmont, M. (eds) Adventure and Extreme Sports Injuries. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4363-5_2
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