crampons

Lastly, any situation that needs deep grooves probably needs crampons/micro-spikes anyways, so having them built into the shoe is kind of redundant.

The entire environment, from the falling ice, to death cookies (if you wear crampons and step on a large piece of ice, your crampons become skates), to the slope is all designed to kill.

All you need to go up is a set of crampons and a backpack, no technical mountaineering needed.

Technical familiarity with crampons, ice-axe, etc' is a must, and a high level of fitness is required.

You for example need to be absolute certain of the shoes/boots/crampons/skis, and also have a backup.

My guess is they switched footwear from boots with crampons to rock climbing shoes based on the conditions of the wall.

I really enjoyed this article and how reminded me of the first time I hiked in snow without crampons.

If you need crampons, you’re out of hiking boot territory already anyway.

Often, failure of these devices have far higher consequences than failure of typical consumer devices (maybe ice axes and crampons are also in this category!).

Meaning tricky steep slopes where you sometimes switch skis for crampons and ice axe and put them on backpack, wildly varying conditions on the slopes.

For example Grivel G12 crampons cost $175 in the U.

Or using ski crampons when its less extreme.

Remember borrowing "crampons" from Norwegian friends when visiting Tromso last year just for walking around town...

To build on this a little - M7 involves climbing a mix of ice and rock, but instead of using conventional fingers and rubber-soled climbing shoes, you'd do the rock-only parts by "dry-tooling" - using your ice axe and crampons on the bare rock.

You probably know them by the names "metal tongs", "gloves", "ice axes", "crampons", "shoes", and so on.

Crampons are definitely mountaineering/winter hiking gear which I used to do a fair bit of.

Crampons are not remotely close to standard rock climbing gear.