Aid Climbing/Mountaineering

Aid climbing/mountaineering covers the climbing subdisciplines of aid climbing and mountaineering, which often go hand-in-hand. Aid climbing involves using points of artifical aid to assist in the climber's upward momentum on the rock. Mountaineering usually integrates elements of technical rock and ice climbing into the practice of climbing mountains for sport, making it more involved and demanding of a more expansive skill set and level of experience than basic mountain climbing.