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A video of Andi Turner repeating Boom Bip - E7 7a.
Plus some photos of a new leap up in Northumberland - Larn Streng!
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Oh no.... They somehow managed to get through customs and find their way to a crag...
America is a big place, but is it big enough for Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall?
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Well known British climbers Mick Fowler and Dave Turnbull are off to the remote far west of Nepal in October to attempt an unclimbed 6,000m peak.
Fowler - president of the Alpine Club - works for HM Revenue and Customs in the United Kingdom and manages to fit his expeditions around a full time job. He will be using over half of his annual leave entitlement for this trip.
Dave Turnbull is the British Mountaineering Council's (
) chief executive.
Fowler commented on their...
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This is an excerpt of the full report on the BMC Website:
The first largely-independent new route on Trango Tower in more than a decade has been completed by a four-man Russian team from the Moscow Mountaineering and Climbing Federation.
Six climbers from the Federation arrived at base camp, with Dmitry Golovchenko, Sergey Nilov, team leader Viktor Volodin and Alexander Yurkin hoping to attempt a new line on the sunless and overhanging North Face.
However, conditions meant...
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October. Cool weather and the burning colours of autumn when every leaf is in flower and this year The Alpkit BigShakeOut in the Peak District. Get your tickets by this weekend and join the fun over the weekend of the 14th to 16th October.
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American climber Alex Honnold, known for his hard solo ascents, has added even more cracks to his solo ticklist.
As reported on his 8a.nu scorecard, Alex has soloed the difficult single pitch Yosemite cracks of Cosmic Debris (5.13b / 8a finger locking) at the Chapel Wall and the 5.12d / 7c crack of of Heaven at Glacier Point.
Also on Alex's 8a scorecard are reports of longer, easier solos including the 2000ft Ho Chi Mihn and the 2000ft route of The DNB and also the very exposed crack of Alien...
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In this, the final video in the Mountain Equipment series, we talk to Dave MacLeod, perhaps currently the UK's top all round climber.
Dave talks about his climbing achievements, his super-route Echo Wall , how he tries to balance his obsession with big routes with a 'normal life' and his intimate relationship with Ben Nevis.
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On a recent trip to Rodellar in Spain, Hazel Findlay redpointed the 8b limestone sport route of of Les Chacals on the crag of Pared de la Virgen. The route took her four redpoint attempts.
Just before her trip to Rodellar, Hazel was in Ceuse in France where she made a redpoint ascent of the classic 8a+ La Femme Blanche .
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While waiting for the temeratures to go down in Cresciano, so he can start making serious attempts on David graham's The story of two worlds, 8C, Dai koyamada is biding his time and keeping fit by escaping to higher ground at Sustenpass.
His latest ascent was the first repeat of Martin Keller's Daedalus, 8B+, an extension to the classic Traumland, 8A.
Meanwhile, Martin came even closer to doing his looong standing Highlander-project, an extension of Daedalus which he has been working on for a...
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Paul Robinson and Marijus Smigelskis have made a video for Black Diamond Equipment. It shows some of the first ascents Paul made while he, guided by Marijus, explored the bouldering areas near Cape Town in South Africa, this summer.
Paul's next trip will go to Stockholm, Sweden, where he will try to make his contribution by solving some of the long standing projects around and in(!) the city.
He will also take part in the "La Sportiva Legends Only" invitational bouldering competition, along...
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