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Wolfgang Güllich

Index Wolfgang Güllich

Wolfgang Güllich (24 October 1960 – 31 August 1992) was a German rock climber, who is considered one of the greatest and most influential climbers in the history of the sport. [1]

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  1. 70 relations: Action Directe (climb), Adam Ondra, Aid climbing, Alpinist (magazine), Australia, Autobahn, Ben Moon (climber), Big wall climbing, Bouldering, Campus board, Catherine Destivelle, Chris Sharma, Cliffhanger (film), Climbing (magazine), Competition climbing, Cordillera Paine, Desnivel, Die Zeit, Dovedale, England, First ascent, Franconian Switzerland, Free climbing, Free solo climbing, Germany, Glossary of climbing terms, History of rock climbing, Ingolstadt, Jerry Moffatt, John Bachar, Karakoram, Kurt Albert, Lake Tahoe, List of grade milestones in rock climbing, Ludwigshafen, Lynn Hill, Master's Edge, Mount Arapiles, Munich, National Geographic, Nuremberg, Obertrubach, Outside (magazine), Palatinate (region), Patagonia, Patagonia, Inc., Peak District, Plyometrics, Rätikon, Redpoint (climbing), ... Expand index (20 more) »

  2. Burials in Bavaria
  3. Free soloists
  4. German rock climbers
  5. Sportspeople from Ludwigshafen

Action Directe (climb)

Action Directe is a short sport climb at the limestone Waldkopf crag in Frankenjura, Germany.

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Adam Ondra

Adam Ondra (born February 5, 1993) is a Czech professional rock climber, specializing in lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing.

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Aid climbing

Aid climbing is a form of rock climbing that uses mechanical devices and equipment, such as aiders (or ladders), for upward momentum.

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Alpinist (magazine)

Alpinist is a quarterly American magazine focused on mountain literature and mountaineering ascents worldwide.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Autobahn

The Autobahn (German plural) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany.

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Ben Moon (climber)

Ben Moon (born 13 June 1966) is a rock climber from England.

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Big wall climbing

Big wall climbing is a form of rock climbing that takes place on long multi-pitch routes (of at least 6–10 pitches or 300–500 metres) that normally require a full day, if not several days, to ascend.

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Bouldering

Bouldering is a form of free climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or harnesses.

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Campus board

A campus board (or pan Güllich) is a training tool that has been widely adopted by sport climbers to improve their plyometric performance and led to dramatic improvements in climbing technique in all rock climbing disciplines.

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Catherine Destivelle

Catherine Destivelle (born 24 July 1960) is a French rock climber and mountaineer who is considered one of the greatest and most important female climbers in the history of the sport. Wolfgang Güllich and Catherine Destivelle are free soloists.

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Chris Sharma

Chris Omprakash Sharma (born 23 April 1981) is an American rock climber who is considered one of the greatest and most influential climbers in the history of the sport. Wolfgang Güllich and Chris Sharma are free soloists.

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Cliffhanger (film)

Cliffhanger is a 1993 American action thriller film directed and co-produced by Renny Harlin and co-written by and starring Sylvester Stallone alongside John Lithgow, Michael Rooker and Janine Turner.

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Climbing (magazine)

Climbing is a major US-based rock climbing magazine first published in 1970.

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Competition climbing

Competition climbing is a form of regulated rock climbing competition held indoors on purpose-built artificial climbing walls (earlier versions were held on external natural rock surfaces).

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Cordillera Paine

The Cordillera Paine is a mountain group in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia.

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Desnivel

Desnivel is Spain's first monthly independent climbing and mountaineering magazine, published since 1981.

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Die Zeit

() is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany.

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Dovedale

Dovedale is a valley in the Peak District of England.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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First ascent

In mountaineering and climbing, a first ascent (abbreviated to FA in guide books), is the first successful documented climb to the top of a mountain or the top of a particular climbing route.

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Franconian Switzerland

Franconian Switzerland (Fränkische Schweiz) is an upland in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany and a popular tourist retreat.

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Free climbing

Free climbing is a form of rock climbing in which the climber can only use climbing equipment for climbing protection, but not as an aid to help in their progression in ascending the route.

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Free solo climbing

Free solo climbing, or free soloing, is a form of rock climbing where the climbers (or free soloists) climb solo (or alone) without ropes or other protective equipment, using only their climbing shoes and their climbing chalk.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Glossary of climbing terms

Glossary of climbing terms relates to rock climbing (including aid climbing, lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing), mountaineering, and to ice climbing.

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History of rock climbing

In the history of rock climbing, the three main sub-disciplines—bouldering, single-pitch climbing, and big wall (and multi-pitch) climbing—can trace their origins to late 19th-century Europe.

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Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt (Austro-Bavarian) is an independent city on the Danube, in Upper Bavaria, with 142.308 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2023).

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Jerry Moffatt

Jerry Moffatt (born 18 March 1963), is a British rock climber and climbing author who is widely considered as being the best British rock climber from the early-1980s to the early-1990s, and was arguably the best rock climber in the world in the mid-1980s, and an important climber in the history of the sport. Wolfgang Güllich and Jerry Moffatt are free soloists.

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John Bachar

John Bachar (March 23, 1957 – July 5, 2009) was an American rock climber. Wolfgang Güllich and John Bachar are free soloists.

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Karakoram

The Karakoram is a mountain range in the Kashmir region spanning the border of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwestern extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

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Kurt Albert

Kurt Albert (January 28, 1954 – September 28, 2010) was a German climber and photographer. Wolfgang Güllich and Kurt Albert are German rock climbers.

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Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe (Washo: Dáʔaw) is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the Western United States, straddling the border between California and Nevada.

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List of grade milestones in rock climbing

In rock-climbing, a first free ascent (FFA) is the first redpoint, onsight or flash of a single-pitch, multi-pitch (or big wall), or boulder climbing route that did not involve using aid equipment to help progression or resting; the ascent must therefore be performed in either a sport, a traditional, or a free solo manner.

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Ludwigshafen

Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (meaning "Ludwig's Port upon Rhine"), is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine (Upper Rhine), opposite Mannheim.

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Lynn Hill

Carolynn Marie Hill (born January 3, 1961) is an American rock climber.

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Master's Edge

Master's Edge is an traditional climbing route on a gritstone arête in the "Corners Area" of Millstone Edge quarry, in the Peak District, England.

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Mount Arapiles

Mount Arapiles is a rock formation that rises about above the Wimmera plains in western Victoria, Australia.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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Nuremberg

Nuremberg (Nürnberg; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 544,414 (2023) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.

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Obertrubach

Obertrubach is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany.

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Outside (magazine)

Outside is a magazine focused on the outdoors.

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Palatinate (region)

The Palatinate (Pfalz; Palatine German: Palz), or the Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz), is a historical region of Germany.

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Patagonia

Patagonia is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.

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Patagonia, Inc.

Patagonia, Inc. is an American retailer of outdoor recreation clothing.

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Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines.

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Plyometrics

Plyometrics, also known as jump training or plyos, are exercises in which muscles exert maximum force in short intervals of time, with the goal of increasing power (speed-strength).

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Rätikon

The Rätikon is a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps, located at the border between Vorarlberg, Liechtenstein and Graubünden.

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Redpoint (climbing)

In rock climbing, redpointing means to free-climb a climbing route from the ground to the top while lead climbing, after having practiced the route (either by headpointing or top roping) or after having failed the first attempt (i.e. falling or resting on the rope for artificial aid).

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Reinhard Karl

Reinhard Karl (3 November 1946 – 19 May 1982) was a German mountaineer, photographer and writer.

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Rock & Ice

Rock & Ice is a magazine published by Outside focusing on rock and ice climbing.

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Rock climbing

Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations or indoor climbing walls.

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Ron Fawcett

Ron Fawcett (born 6 May 1955) is a British rock climber and rock climbing author who is credited with pushing the technical standards of British rock climbing in traditional, sport, bouldering and free soloing disciplines, in the decade from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, and of pioneering the career of being a full-time professional rock climber. Wolfgang Güllich and ron Fawcett are free soloists.

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Ron Kauk

Ron Kauk (born 23 September 1957) is an American rock climber.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Separate Reality (climb)

Separate Reality is a traditional climbing route in Yosemite National Park in California.

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Shawangunk Ridge

The Shawangunk Ridge, also known as the Shawangunk Mountains or The Gunks, is a ridge of bedrock in Ulster County, Sullivan County and Orange County in the state of New York, extending from the northernmost point of the border with New Jersey to the Catskills.

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Silbernes Lorbeerblatt

Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), the highest sports award in Germany, was endowed on 23 June 1950 by the German President Theodor Heuss.

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Sinai Peninsula

The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (سِينَاء; سينا; Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Sport climbing

Sport climbing (or bolted climbing) is a type of free climbing in rock climbing where the lead climber clips into pre-drilled permanent bolts for their protection while ascending a route.

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Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Traditional climbing

Traditional climbing (or trad climbing) is a type of free climbing in rock climbing where the lead climber places the protection equipment while ascending the route; when the lead climber has completed the route, the second climber (or belayer) then removes the protection equipment as they climb the route.

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Trango Towers

The Trango Towers (ٹرینگو ٹاورز) are a family of rock towers situated in the Gilgit-Baltistan region, in the northern part of Pakistan.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park is a national park in California.

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Yucca brevifolia

Yucca brevifolia (also known as the Joshua tree, yucca palm, tree yucca, and palm tree yucca) is a plant species belonging to the genus Yucca.

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ZDF

ZDF, short for i, is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate.

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See also

Burials in Bavaria

Free soloists

German rock climbers

Sportspeople from Ludwigshafen

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Güllich

Also known as Güllich, Wolfgang Guellich.

, Reinhard Karl, Rock & Ice, Rock climbing, Ron Fawcett, Ron Kauk, Rowman & Littlefield, Separate Reality (climb), Shawangunk Ridge, Silbernes Lorbeerblatt, Sinai Peninsula, Soviet Union, Sport climbing, Sylvester Stallone, The Guardian, Traditional climbing, Trango Towers, West Germany, Yosemite National Park, Yucca brevifolia, ZDF.