| 单词 | piton |
| 例句 | Celebrating their success, the summit team left an offering of prayer flags, katas, and climbing pitons on what appeared to be the highest point, and then descended into the fast-rising blizzard. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z These arose as byproducts of oral composition — “pitons,” Mendelsohn calls them, “stuck into the vast face of the epic” to provide a momentary respite for both bard and hearers. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Union Island, spiky with pitons, is sometimes called the Tahiti of the Caribbean, and after the quiet isolation of the marine park, it felt like a return to civilization. You’re Going to Need a Smaller Boat: Island Hopping in the Grenadines 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z This was the kind of stunt Chouinard was famous for ever since he practically invented the sport by forging his own pitons and scrambling up the sheer rock faces of Yosemite in the late '50s. '180 Degrees South': Trekking ? and surfing and climbing ? to Patagonia 2010-05-20T20:10:00Z The company that began manufacturing pitons in 1973 and became a global outdoor apparel giant began its own publishing program in 2007. Why Patagonia — yes, that Patagonia — is rebooting a forgotten climate history classic 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z He set up his first company – a small climbing equipment firm – more than 50 years ago only because no one was selling the kind of pitons he wanted. Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard: ‘Denying climate change is evil’ 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Purchases of crampons, pitons, carabiners and hiking foods snowballed. The original base camp for REI 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Bridwell and his partners, complementing their store of ropes, nuts, pitons and water with about five packs of cigarettes, completed the ascent in 15 hours, smoke breaks included. Jim Bridwell, free-spirited climber who conquered Yosemite, dies at 73 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Where to hammer a piton into rock or ice to secure a rope on which life might hang? Fred Beckey, Conqueror and Chronicler of North American Peaks, Dies at 94 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z I got as far as Walkaway, and I want to stick a pin in the board there, or hammer a piton into the side of the cliff, to help me find the next step there. Cory Doctorow on technological immortality, the transporter problem, and fast-moving futures 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z It was dubbed “clean climbing,” a style that insisted on minimal use of the anchors, called pitons, that climbers traditionally drove into crevices in the rock as they made their ascent. Royal Robbins, celebrated rock climber who left no trace of his ascents, dies at 82 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z To keep the rock unblemished, he removed the pitons he used as he ascended. Royal Robbins, Conscience of Rock Climbers, Dies at 82 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z At first, he created and forged reusable steel pitons that were hammered into rock faces and then removed. Patagonia and The North Face: saving the world – one puffer jacket at a time 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z He began making his own, reusable pitons, out of chrome steel, and before long he was selling them to friends and strangers, at a dollar-fifty a pop. Patagonia’s Philosopher-King 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z It was like rock climbing: one piton stake at a time. The Democrats are about to blow it: This election is about new millennials, not aging baby boomers 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Use ropes and pitons and whatever else you might need. El Capitan’s Dawn Wall Climbers Reach Summit at Yosemite 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Aid refers to relying on tools — metal wedges, cams, hooks and pitons — to make upward progress. El Capitan’s Dawn Wall: Coverage of the Ascent at Yosemite 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z On June 18 , Mr. Bhatt and his team started for Sainj village, carrying backpacks weighing almost 15 kilograms, or about 30 pounds, laden with ropes, anchors, pulleys, pitons and other mountaineering equipment. India Ink: When Everest Climbers Became Rescue Men 2013-07-01T07:30:30Z Concerned about the degradation of rock, they stopped making pitons and instead came out with aluminum chocks that you could wedge into and remove from cracks without leaving any gear or scars behind. Patagonia’s Philosopher-King 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z My old blacksmith shop is here on campus--that's where I made the rock-climbing pitons back when we first created the company. The Way I Work: Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia 2013-03-12T04:00:00Z Chouinard, best known as the founder of clothing maker Patagonia, first went into business making pitons, carabiners, and picks for fellow climbers in Yosemite National Park. Fancy Swedish Helmets Coming to a Ski Slope Near You 2012-06-07T12:40:09Z Climbers often used to leave pitons in the cliff, which is environmentally messy, another of Mr Chouinard’s peeves. B Corps: Firms with benefits 2012-01-05T16:00:47Z A small wandering rain storm drifted against the tallest piton and split in two, one half going away down the coast and the rest passing close enough to us to shower the decks with drops. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Then, working carefully, he hammered the piton into a narrow cleft in the rock. Anchorite In moments the piton was freed from the mountain wall! The Tarn of Eternity Moreover, there are detached white-yellow pitons to the north-east, the east, and the south; whilst a promising hillock, bearing nearly due north, adjoins the great outcrop. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 The flattened dome is from fifty to sixty feet high, and the piton one hundred and forty. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 He took a steel piton out of his tool pack, transferred it to his left hand, and took out a hammer. Anchorite This time, he pulled himself back to his drilling site by means of a cable which he had attached to one of the pitons. Anchorite He examined the pitons that maintained the chains in place. The Tarn of Eternity He set the four-foot tube in the center of the quadrilateral formed by the pitons and braced it in position by attaching lines to the eyes on a detachable collar that encircled the drill. Anchorite |
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