Like how do they get the pegs in the rock hundreds of feet up the cliff if they’re at the bottom? I don’t get it.
Like if someone starts out at the base of a mountain with all the shit you need, ropes, pulleys, hooks and metal rods to stick into the rock, how do they manage to get their rods in the rock to climb in the first place? It makes sense if someones been there before and have put the rods in the rock before them, but how do the “FIRST ONES” do it?
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Trad climbing the lead climber places protection; nuts, cams, slings etc at intervals. When they reach a suitable stance, usually but not always, a rope length, they set up a belay. Then the second follows up the pitch collecting gear to join the first at the stance. Then, if it is multi pitch they will swop the rack (protection) and the second will continue the next pitch this time as the lead. Experienced pairs become very slick at this and tackle big routes in a day.
Sport climbing has prefixed gear (bolts) where “all” the climber has to do is clip a QuickDraw ( two carabiners and a short sling). Sports climbing is more popular on certain types of rock eg limestone and slate whereas trad climbing tends to take place on rock where cracks are more likely to form eg dolerite, gritstone & granite
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