What's the difference between crampon and crampoon?
Crampon
Definition:
(n.) An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
Example Sentences:
(1) To get even closer you’ll need an ice axe, crampons and mountaineering experience.
(2) The one or two exceptions were climbers wearing crampons, which stick to ice like flypaper.
(3) "Just above the ice falls at crampon point you can see cans from 10, 20, 30 years ago or even older," Tshering says.
(4) They put on their crampons and other equipment at the base, then Rob started climbing.
(5) 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.
(6) There are people here who have never worn crampons or a harness and think you can just spend thousands of dollars and that's it, but Bonita was not one of these people."
(7) All these things, which amount to a mountain's commercialisation, would have been inconceivable to Tenzing Norgay – in 2003, 17 years after his death, his son said he would been shocked to find adventurers setting out on the climb "who have no idea how to put on crampons".
(8) The New York Times has some ideas about what to wear: We suggest muckboots, headlamp and windbreaker in the morning, crampons and faux-wolverine-lined anorak for evening.
(9) Climbers had reported that they barely needed crampons for the climb, there was so much bare rock, Tenzing said.
(10) Whereas once Everest only attracted the world’s best and most experienced mountaineers, recent years have seen aspiring summiteers who are using basic equipment such as an ice axe and crampons for the first time.