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comando alternato

English translation: alternate leads

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Italian term or phrase:comando alternato
English translation:alternate leads
Entered by: Caterina D'Amico

10:47 Jan 16, 2014
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Sports / Fitness / Recreation / Mountaineering
Italian term or phrase: comando alternato
This is the report of a mountaineering expedition: the climbers are roped together and step in each other's tracks "a comando alternato".

"Mettevamo i piedi l'uno nella traccia dell'altro a comando alternato."
Caterina D'Amico
Italy
Local time: 21:04
Alternate leads
Explanation:
Credo che "comando alternato" significa "alternate leads", cioe' che gli alpinisti alternano tra di loro durante la scalata.

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Note added at 50 mins (2014-01-16 11:38:22 GMT)
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I would change the structure: "we stepped in each other's tracks, alternating leads".
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Jessica D Eath
Ireland
Local time: 20:04
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3Alternate leads
Jessica D Eath


  

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Alternate leads


Explanation:
Credo che "comando alternato" significa "alternate leads", cioe' che gli alpinisti alternano tra di loro durante la scalata.

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Note added at 50 mins (2014-01-16 11:38:22 GMT)
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I would change the structure: "we stepped in each other's tracks, alternating leads".


    Reference: http://books.google.ie/books?id=OsL2ifP6JucC&pg=PA82&lpg=PA8...
Jessica D Eath
Ireland
Local time: 20:04
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in IrishIrish
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: Alternate leads sounds good by itself. But what about the sentence? "We stepped in each other's tracks... in alternate leads"? Or rather "leading through"? I wonder if this makes sense at all.

Asker: Sounds good, thanks.

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