What are the various types of climbing?
There are three major areas: rock, ice and mountaineering. Rock includes climbing on boulders (called bouldering). For rock, you usually climb with a partner roped together and use special gear to secure the rope to the rock. My pages on climbing the Flat Irons covers this type. Ice is similar and includes frozen waterfalls and steep mountain sides. Please see my Ouray page for an example. Mountaineering usually means high altitude and snow. Most of my climbing is mountaineering, including Denali, Everest, Mont Blanc and others.
