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    Mountaineers glissading down snow slopes A glissade is a climbing technique mostly used in mountaineering and alpine climbing where a climber starts a...
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  • Glissade may mean: glissade (climbing), a way to descend a snow-covered slope glissade (dance move), a move in some dances such as the galop glissade...
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  • "precipitated glide".) A quick glissade generally done leading into a following step, such as with glissade jeté or glissade assemblé. (French pronunciation:...
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  • Portamento (redirect from Glissade (music))
    portamento, meaning 'carriage' or 'carrying'), also known by its French name glissade, is a pitch sliding from one note to another. The term originated from...
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    Glissade was a roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia. It was situated in the area where Izzy/Wild Maus was once located. Glissade...
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    years later on June 13, 1987, another climber, Dave Probst, died on a glissade. Idaho portal Geography portal Mountains portal List of mountains of Idaho...
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    closed position familiar in the waltz,[citation needed] the step combined a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, ordinarily in a fast 2 4 time. The galop...
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    noting that Bilbo's journey across the Misty Mountains ("including the glissade down the slithering stones into the pine woods") is directly based on his...
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    been speculated that an injured Mallory was descending in a self-arrest "glissade", sliding down the slope while dragging his ice axe in the snow to control...
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  • The Fencing Master is a 1988 novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte set in Spain at the middle of the 19th century. Amid the political turmoil of the Glorious Revolution...
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