How to Use crampon in a Sentence

crampon

noun

• The agency says traveling in avalanche terrain requires careful use of mountaineering tools and equipment including crampons, ice axe and the skills to use them.
  — Sarah Dewberry, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• On steep, iced-over slopes, strap on a set of crampons.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
• The best part: The crampon-like aluminum bars stick to slick rock like Velcro.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 17 Apr. 2015
• Strap on harness and crampons to head out with your expert mountain guide for a walk on the glacier.
  — Jack Dancy, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• Before, visitors used to kayak across a lake to reach the glacier’s face, strap on a pair of crampons and walk onto the ice.
  — NBC News, 25 July 2019
• This includes some stiff boots and crampons, a helmet and a harness.
  — Scott McMurren, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Sep. 2017
• There are clients on Everest today who don’t even know how to put on their crampons, let alone walk in them.
  — Mark Jenkins, Outside Online, 20 June 2019
• As climbers chop into the ice with their tools and crampons, frozen debris rains below.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• The clients all learned the basic crampon and ice-ax techniques and eventually scratched their way up the face.
  — Nathaniel Wilder, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
• Achut, again, rescued me from myself and retrieved the lost crampon.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
• Mike Leum stepped into the icy mountain with his crampon, using the steel-spiked footwear to find purchase.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2023
• Climbing tools — ice axes, crampons, ice screws, pitons and so on — are stronger and lighter than ever.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Miller: Having a crampon pouch on the back of the pack was an absolutely key factor.
  — Matt Goulet, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2016
• Life becomes detail: Click into the rope and unclick; secure boot crampons and dig for footholds.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 9 May 2017
• In the comments on his Instagram page, @lespowtos, the skier describes making it out with crampons, or ice cleats, and a small piece of rope from his friends.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2023
• When the falls freeze over from December through April, Johnston Canyon draws a steady stream of ice climbers and crampon-wearing hikers.
  — Daniel Otis, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• If conditions are icy on top, crampons or traction spikes are a good choice for safe footing.
  — John Nelson, The Seattle Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• Weather permitting, strap on crampons and grab an ice axe for a walk on the spectacular glacier known as the Mer de Glace.
  — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
• Don crampons, wield ice picks, and learn how glacial morphology has molded the landscape of the region.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Some tours give visitors a chance to hike out onto the glacier wearing metal crampons.
  — Nora Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
• Visitors planning to hike any of the trails on or below the rim should be properly prepared with crampons, trekking poles and even snow shoes.
  — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 26 Nov. 2019
• Above the refuge, the hike gets more serious, with crampons a necessity well into April.
  — Rachel Monroe, Outside Online, 29 July 2019
• The climb from the south is not considered technical, but the Forest Service recommends use of crampons and an ice ax.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 29 May 2018
• The terrain is technical and icy, requiring ropes and crampons.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2023
• Well, if your crampons are on the bottom of your backpack, that makes for an insanely scary situation.
  — Matt Goulet, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2016
• In a 2011 interview with Karen Brewster, Argus remembered seeing Thayer’s crampon had slipped off, to the side of his mukluk.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2022
• He isn't equipped with hiking poles and doesn't appear to be wearing crampons (a traction device that attaches to the shoe for better mobility on snow and ice).
  — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 26 Nov. 2019
• However, there is another way to keep climbing with axes and crampons.
  — Jacopo Pasotti, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2024
• The test involved various traverses on steep ice that gauged candidates’ skills with crampons and ice axes.
  — Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
• Scientists are still not sure whether these claws were used for disembowelling prey, or clinging on to them like a crampon, but either way, having a claw that large stuck in you would be pretty painful.
  — Jon Tennant, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2015

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