Each group has its own costume, of colourful shirts with cummerbunds worn to protect the back and provide hand and foot grips for the climbers.
As wisps of cloud drifted across a half moon, 9-year-old Mary Begg, in helmet and harness, climbed the 10 rungs of a ladder toward the lowest foot grips on a soaring climbing wall.
For even better foot grips, try going barefoot.
His feet grip the wooden deck, wood that once stood as trees grasping the very soil he abandons, for what could be an eternity in the swells of the world's oceans.
Her feet gripped a cable less than an inch thick that stretched 21 feet in front of her.
To his left, Merkel is on her feet, gripping the brown leather seat in front of her.
In "Tarangam" Ms. Shivalingappa stood on a brass plate, her feet gripping its edges as she shimmied it around the stage.
Mercifully, once we began paddling, the sun was glaring off the water and I couldn't see anything but my feet gripping my board.
During the day, you hang upside down, asleep, your feet gripping a branch or a beam; at dusk you wake up and fly about, looking for insects to eat, finding your way with little high-pitched shrieks from whose echoes you deduce the shape of your surroundings.
The hind toe (hallux) is joined on the same level with the front toes and opposes them, so that the foot can grip a perch.
