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- noun Plural form of
crampon .
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Examples
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When that was over and we were sitting at the base of the Glacier we had our safety chats and put the little ice climby helper thingies called crampons on our boots and we were ready to start climbing up what the guides called "Hells mountain".
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Not all hipposandals have the 'crampons' But she says that horses in the Roman period were unlikely to be shod as a matter of course.
Horseshoes in Roman and post-Roman use Carla 2006
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Climbers had reported that they barely needed crampons for the climb, there was so much bare rock, Tenzing said.
Everest's ice is retreating as climate change grips the Himalayas 2011
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From a shot of fantastical ice spikes in the Andes to Ed Cooper's intense photos of climbers scaling vertical faces, each is so compelling it may leaving you longing for your own set of crampons.
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The winter-skills courses cover navigation, avalanche awareness and use of ice axes and crampons.
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Earlier this year, crews from the pyramid, as it is usually known, strapped on crampons and installed a weather station on the south col of Everest at about 8,000m.
Everest's ice is retreating as climate change grips the Himalayas 2011
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The grating of granite beneath our crampons, the tinkling of powder as we float through a slope of unbroken snow, the vast roar of the ocean as we drop in on a reef break: these are the mediums through which we understand ourselves.
Christian Beckwith: Adventropy: Adventure Philanthropy at Work Christian Beckwith 2010
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So a significant chunk of the U.S. contingent scheduled to be here — where the snow is whisked away and the World Economic Forum laptop bags came equipped with crampons to put on your wingtips —ended up getting snowed in back home.
Snow day at Davos Ruth Marcus 2011
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But you don't have to bring crampons to feel at home.
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They are both clever and funny and – despite tenure at the Brit school – it feels like they have clawed their way up out of leftfield with crampons.
chained_bear commented on the word crampons
I know they're for shoes. I know they're for shoes. And yet, when I see this word, that's not what I think of.
I also think "Crampon, crampoff... crampon crampoff... the cramper!"
*hides in shame*
October 23, 2007
john commented on the word crampons
Reminds me of traveling in Italy many years ago with my sister. Neither of us spoke Italian, and she needed to buy tampons. Between language issues and embarrassment, she was having a lot of trouble trying to describe what she wanted to a clerk. She's looking at her feet and mumbling at him, and all of a sudden his face lights up, he raises his arms in a very Italian talking-with-hands gesture, and he pretty much yells "Ah! TAMPONES!"
We thought it was the funniest thing ever. For a while our standard greeting was to raise our arms and sing "ah! Tampones!"
October 23, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word crampons
Ha! That's a great story. I'm glad it turned into a joke! I can think of few better greetings shared between siblings than "ah! tampones!"
It should be a song.
October 23, 2007