Enchainment
Mountaineering term to link up routes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Enchainment?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS
For the French linguistic phenomenon, see enchaînement.
In mountaineering and climbing, enchainment (an anglicisation of the French word enchaînement, meaning "linking") is climbing two or more mountains or climbing routes on a mountain in one outing (often over the course of a day or a series of days). Rock climbing two or more routes in this manner are also called a "link up" in the United States. Climbers may do an enchainment of easy routes as a way of training for a more difficult objective, but some enchainments of hard routes are a prize in their own right, a notable example being the great north faces of the Alps.