Lost Arrow – also known as a wedge piton, was designed by John Salathé and Yvon Chouinard (named after Salathé's ascent of Lost Arrow Spire), is a hot-forged, tapered piton for medium …

The meaning of PITON is a spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber).

a short pointed piece of metal used in rock-climbing. The piton is fixed into the rock and has a rope attached to it through a ring at the other end.

With the invention of hard iron pitons, jumars and hammocks, wall climbing exploded in the 1960s and 1970s. They were developed as an alternative to pitons, which are hammered into cracks …

PITON definition: a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed. See examples of piton used in a sentence.

piton, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

A metal spike fitted at one end with an eye for securing a rope and driven into rock or ice as a support in mountain climbing. [French, from Old French, nail.] American Heritage® Dictionary …

Nov 12, 2025 · piton (third-person singular simple present pitons, present participle pitoning, simple past and past participle pitoned) (climbing) To put pitons into a rock/ice to facilitate …

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A piton in big wall climbing and in aid climbing is a metal spike that is driven into a crack or seam in the climbing surface using a climbing hammer, and which...