The Origin and Early Evolution of Rock Climbing

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10.2991/assehr.k.210806.124How to use a DOI?

Keywords

rock climbing, origin, early development, mountaineering

Abstract

Given the backdrop that rock climbing will make its Olympic debut in the coming 2020 Summer Olympics, the analysis of the historical context of its inception, birth and early development, will facilitate further exploration in this research field. Rock climbing was born of the modern mountaineering that began in the 1780s, and then became a new sport independent from mountaineering around the 1880s in a specific socio-economic, historical and cultural setting. The Lake District in northwestern England, the Dolomites in northeastern Italy, Saxon Switzerland in southeastern Germany and Fontainebleau in northern France represent major birthplaces of rock climbing. Amidst the origin and early development of rock climbing, the innovation of technical equipment serves as an important driving force for the development. Besides, the collision of rock-climbing ethics resulting from the difference in risk value has accelerated its evolution; and the climbers’ relentless pursuit of a higher level of challenge has led rock climbing towards “sportification”. The broad influence of early pioneers and climbing literature have contributed to the global development of rock climbing.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Beifeng ZHU
AU  - Ruizhi CHEN
AU  - Yuan LI
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/09
TI  - The Origin and Early Evolution of Rock Climbing
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 662
EP  - 667
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210806.124
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.124
ID  - ZHU2021
ER  -