Enchainment (presumably a corruption of French enchaînement, "linking") is a mountaineering term which denotes climbing two or more mountains without returning to base camp. Rock climbing two or more routes in this manner is often called a link up. Mountaineering is the sport or hobby or profession of walking, hiking and climbing up mountains. ... Climbers on Valkyrie at the Roaches. ...

Climbers may do an enchainment of easy routes as a way of training for a more difficult objective, but some enchainments are a prize in their own right: in 1986 John Bachar and Peter Croft made the first link up of routes on El Capitan and Half Dome in Yosemite. In 1996 Jean-Christophe Lafaille made a 16 day solo enchainment of ten classic alpine faces, including routes on the Eiger, Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn, and Mont Blanc. John Bachar on The Gift (5. ... El Capitan is a 3,000 foot vertical rock formation in the Yosemite Valley, which is very popular with rock climbers. ... Half Dome is a granite dome at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley, possibly the Valleys most familiar sight. ... Yosemite National Park (pron. ... Jean-Christophe Lafaille is a French climber who made numerous difficult ascensions, and a few first ascent. ... Alpine may refer to: Alpine, a breed of goat. ... For other uses, see Eiger (disambiguation). ... Monte Rosa, seen from the Gornergrat above Zermatt) Monte Rosa is a mountain massif located in the canton Valais (Wallis) of Switzerland and in italian regions Piedmond and Aosta Valley. ... The Matterhorn (French: Mont Cervin or Le Cervin, Italian: Monte Cervino) is perhaps the most familiar mountain in the European Alps. ... This article is about the Alpine mountain. ...

External links

• http://www.adksportsfitness.com/august2005/articles/mountaineering.html - an enchainment diary.