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First Ascent

Definition of a Climbing Word

By Stewart Green, About.com

First Ascent

A first ascent is when a climber or climbers are the first people to climb a route, whether it is a short sport route, a top-rope route, a big wall, a boulder problem, an ice fall, or a mountain. Climbers who do the first ascents of routes are the ones who give them their identifying names.

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