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Ski bindings for climbing boots
 Poster: A snowHead
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Yesterday, I saw a pair of mountaineers come down off GM. They were wearing what looked like B3 climbing boots and were carrying skinny skis with bindings I've never seen before.

Does anyone know what kind of bindings would be used with climbing boots and would they have used this setup for skinning only or also for downhill?
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probably silvrettas of some variety
I am sure they will ski down after a fashion
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Could well be snow blades as in middle of photo:



Or possibly NTN if there was more to the boots than meets the eye:



Or just possibly NNN if they had some slippers stashed elsewhere:



That's assuming that they weren't from the abundance of AT bindings available eg: Dynafit, Fritschi, Naxo, Silvretta...

Were the boots plastic or fabric and how skinny were the skis?
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altis, they were wearing Sportiva climbing boots, like model shown in the pic below (easily recognisable). And they were definitely carrying skis (not blades) that were really skinny, around 65mm - 70mm.

The bindings had some kind of cable bit. They weren't carrying particularly large backpacks that would be able to accommodate ski boots unless that's all that was in the packs or they were cross country ski boots...

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Possibly Silvretta ??
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I'm guessing Silvretta 500s.
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Ahhhh interesting, thanks gentlemen!
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Was a bit confused there by your really skinny skis - to me that means something around 40mm and difficult to envisage up a mountain!

The mention of a cable suggests a telemark binding but that's unlikely with boots without a duck toe. More likely it was just a cable leash (possibly borrowed from tele world) on a Silvretta 500 as others have suggested.

Were the skis black?

http://www.alpcontrol.com/summary.html
http://www.wildsnow.com/929/want-to-ski-in-your-climbing-boots-alp-control-might-be-ticket/
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altis, they were just average Fischer skis - I have no idea what model, I only noticed the branding. And 65mm is skinny to me... my first skis were 90mm, so I know no better Madeye-Smiley
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