English Dictionary

ascendeur

noun

A metal grip that attaches to a rope sling and can be tightened to hold a climber or loosened to allow the climber to move.

The ascendeur in the building is out of order.

意味（1）

A metal grip that attaches to a rope sling and can be tightened to hold a climber or loosened to allow the climber to move.

It was the first time that I had used any type of ascendeur on a climb and only did so then because I remembered my exhausted state on Sabre, when I had scratched around on the end of the rope after de-pegging a pitch.