Timeline for When, how and by whom was sport climbing invented?
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| Sep 18, 2017 at 22:11 | comment | added | Qudit | "without any sort of protective devices" does not sound like using safety bolts. Are you looking at some other source? | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 21:30 | comment | added | Rory Alsop♦ | Qudit - he didn't use them to climb, but he did place safety bolts. | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 17:56 | comment | added | Qudit | From the wikipedia link, it sounds more like free soloing than sport climbing to me: "His most famous climb was his 1886 first ascent of the Napes Needle, which he accomplished, by himself, without any sort of protective devices - eschewing the use of ropes, spikes, and ladders as aids required by inferior climbers." | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 11:24 | comment | added | Rory Alsop♦ | Yep - I answered specifically with the same view as you, that it counts as sport climbing when bolts etc are only for fall prevention, not climbing. | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 11:13 | comment | added | user2766 | I've slightly tweaked the question to clarify what I'm thinking. Problem is the same as in the linked question (or seemingly climbing in general) what even is sport climbing?! | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 10:41 | comment | added | Rory Alsop♦ | Couple of famous folks in the late '20s made a point of using stoppers etc just as fall arresters. Pigott was the one I remember from a documentary years ago. | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 10:39 | comment | added | user2766 | Yeah details seems pretty sketchy. I remember watching a film about using bolt sin Yosemite in the 60s but I can't remember if that was the first "sport climb" or not | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 10:37 | history | answered | Rory Alsop♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |