piton

By happenstance, Yvon was there and he was going to hand forge a piton in the old tin shed...

It is much easier to plug a cam in then pound a piton when you're free climbing.

As you hammer a piton higher up the flake it loosens the lower piton because it expands the flake from above to the point that the lower piton might fall out.

And Yvon busted out a perfect Angle piton as expertly as if it was 1960-something.

Imagine, however, if Chouinard had sold his piton business to some generic manufacturing concern.

I was going to say the same thing, the piton de la fournaise is very much active.

I had the tremendous privilege of seeing the Piton de la Fournaise erupt in the mid-1980s.

I feel very lucky to have met him and watched him make that piton.

I'd never rely on a single rope/piton if rock climbing.

This can actually be incredibly physical and incredibly mentally taxing since the gear used might be a tiny hook hanging off a dime edge, or a postage-stamp sized piton hammered into a seam.

The Piton de la Fournaise is a shield volcano similar to active Hawaiian volcanoes so it is not as dangerous as stratovolcanoes like those in the Philippines or in other parts of the world.

A piton hammered into a granite crack is very solid protection, it's pretty straightforward to find where to place one and to place one in a manner such that it will hold a fall.

Chipper said, "I can't surf right now but you can go watch Yvon make a piton if you want...

I've seen plenty of "cracks" that were nothing more than a stretch of piton scars.

It was more an overview, a "well, if you're going to use pitons, here's how to use them safely" at least in the case of the tie-off loop with a piton that had bottomed out.