A stone that has become wedged in a vertical cleft.
Example sentencesExamples
- Climb the rest of the chimney more easily (but with interest) past the chockstones and into the Eeyrie to belay.
- A refrigerator-size chockstone is wedged between the walls ten feet downstream from the ledge, giving the space ahead the claustrophobic feel of a short tunnel.
- The tiny pebble of a chockstone is completely hidden by the sling looped over it so that it appears you are abseiling on a piece of tape wedged into a vertical crack…
- I followed and when I arrived at the slung chockstone I yelled for slack to get some rope in order to lower myself across the slab.
- A large obstacle in the form of a twenty-five foot wall was overcome by an easy ramp-chimney with a chockstone at the top which was bypassed using a foot-jam in a small crack.