Adaptive Ice Climbing - Catskills
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Six climbers from the Adaptive Climbing Group from NYC Adaptive came out to the Catskills for a day of ice climbing under the guidance of Mountain Skills Climbing Guides on Saturday.
The climbers, and the ten volunteers, tackled the Asbestos Wall near Palenville.
The climbs were pretty vertical but for the needs of adaptive climbers, it turns out that stepper ice is better.
Six climbers from the Adaptive Climbing Group from NYC Adaptive came out to the Catskills for a day of ice climbing under the guidance of Mountain Skills Climbing Guides on Saturday.
The climbers, and the ten volunteers, tackled the Asbestos Wall near Palenville.
The climbs were pretty vertical but for the needs of adaptive climbers, it turns out that stepper ice is better.
"The participants succeeded better on routes that able bodied climbers would consider hard. The vertical nature of the routes allows the climbers with disabilities to not have their bodies fully touching the cold ice or having to drag themselves over a lower angle bulge. A tight belay from the belayer is all that is necessary," Doug Ferguson, owner of Mountain Skills, explained.
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