It's also climbing. What's the difference between climbing and rock climbing?
High difficulty mountaineering cannot do without rock climbing. Low difficulty may be more snow slope walking, or even just snow slope walking can reach the top. If climbing any mountain is classified as mountaineering, such as climbing Xiangshan Mountain, it has nothing to do with rock climbing.
There are many kinds of rock climbing, including aid climbing and free climbing. The difference is whether to use tools other than the original shape on the cliff to climb. Daily contact is the latter, which can be divided into sport climbing and traditional climbing. Whether in the rock climbing hall, in the wild, holding rocks and climbing with pioneers and climbing with top ropes, are all sports climbing. Traditional climbing refers to a climbing method that there is no fixed hanging plate on the rock wall, which requires setting up the point of the mountain while climbing. It uses the rock cone, rock plug, mechanical plug and various detachable equipment. More creative, I have seen pictures of beverage bottles, energy bars and so on as a starting point, but I don't know how practical it is. Not recommended.
Modern mountaineering is more popular with light and fast alpine climbing. Climbing concept requires that the climbing route should not be damaged as much as possible, so the current trend is to use less fixed hanging pieces, but to use traditional climbing or instrument climbing to complete the climb. This part is the biggest intersection of mountaineering and rock climbing, where the two kinds of sports can not be distinguished, but mountaineering will include more content, need to master more skills and have more experience. For example, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell's Fitz traverse, the gold pickaxe winners this year, blurted the boundaries between climbing and climbing. However, they used ice pickaxes and claws, not pure rock climbing. The dawn wall free climb that Tommy and Kevin completed at the end of last year was a relatively pure climb, but I can't argue that it's climbing.
