This dictionary will be useful for trekkers or
mountaineers coming in France or in French countries and for reading french
mountain books, french documentation, browsing french web sites.
Contents : most useful geographics terms for montain, technical terms in mountaineering
and trekking practices.
For an access sorted by french terms, please click on icon below :
|
Category |
French Category |
Word |
French word |
|---|---|---|---|
| climbing | escalade | belay | relais |
| figure height knot | nœud en huit | ||
| knot | nœud | ||
| overhang | surplomb | ||
| to lead | passer en tête | ||
| clothes | habillement | balaclava | cagoule / passe-montagne |
| jacket | veste | ||
| pants | pantalons | ||
| shirt | chemise | ||
| equipment | matériel | backpack / pack | sac à dos |
| binding | fixation (de ski) | ||
| camalot | friend | ||
| carabiner | mousqueton | ||
| crampons | crampons | ||
| descender | descendeur | ||
| draw | degaine | ||
| emergency blanket | couverture de survie | ||
| gaiter | guêtre | ||
| gear loop | boucle porte-matériel | ||
| gloves | gants | ||
| hammer | marteau | ||
| harness | harnais / baudrier | ||
| headlamp | lampe frontale | ||
| helmett | casque | ||
| hook | crochet | ||
| ice axe / piolet | piolet | ||
| ice screw | broche à glace | ||
| leash | dragonne | ||
| pick | panne | ||
| probe | sonde | ||
| rope | corde | ||
| shovel | pelle | ||
| skin | peau (de phoque) | ||
| sleeping bag | sac de couchage | ||
| snow-shoes | raquettes | ||
| stick / pole | baton (marche et ski) | ||
| stopper | bloqueur | ||
| stopper, nut | coinceur | ||
| stove | réchaud | ||
| straitjacket | sangle | ||
| tent | tente | ||
| geography | géographie | avalanche | avalanche |
| bergschrund, schrund | rimaye | ||
| breach | brèche | ||
| cave | grotte | ||
| chimney | cheminée | ||
| cornice | corniche | ||
| crest | crête | ||
| crevasse | crevasse | ||
| dihedral | dièdre | ||
| fault | faille | ||
| glacier | glacier | ||
| guley | couloir | ||
| landslide | glissement, éboulement | ||
| ledge | vire, saillie, corniche | ||
| limestone | calcaire | ||
| map | carte | ||
| moraine | moraine | ||
| pass | col | ||
| path | sentier | ||
| peak | pic | ||
| permanent snowpatch | névé | ||
| pillar | pilier | ||
| range | chaine | ||
| ridge | arête | ||
| scree | éboulis | ||
| serac | serac | ||
| slope | pente | ||
| spur | éperon | ||
| summit | sommet | ||
| trail | piste, chemin | ||
| waterfall | cascade | ||
| medecine | medecine | AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness) | mal des montagnes |
| words | mots | bivouac | bivouac |
| cable-car | téléphérique | ||
| chairlift | télésiége | ||
| escape | sortie | ||
| forecast weather | prévisions météo | ||
| guidebook | topo | ||
| mountaineering | alpinisme | ||
| rating | cotation | ||
| trek | randonnée |
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