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Fort William Mountain Festival 2012

Check out this years Fort William Mountain Festival. Films Events Lectures Exhibitions Guided Walks Skills Workshops The event runs from the 15th 19th February 2012 Festival Highlights Wednesday 15th February 2012 – Festival Launch Evening Thursday 16th February 2012 - Bike Night with Steve Peat Friday 17th February 2012 – Mountaineering Evening with Bob Shepton and [...] Fort William Mountain Festival 2012 is a post from: Rock Climbing UK , an online UK climbing magazine, written BY UK climbers FOR


Black Diamond athletes win 2011 Piolets d’Or

Congratulations to BD athletes Nico Favresse and Katsutaka “Jumbo” Yokoyama—they, along with their partners, were awarded the 2011 Piolets d’Or on April 16. Nico (along with his brother Olivier, Ben Ditto, Sean Villanueva and Bob Shepton) won f...


Piolet d’Or 2011, winners, diversity and the challenges of alpinism

Two Piolets d'Or were awarded on 15 April in Chamonix, France, during the IXX Piolet d'Or 2011: to the Greenland Big Walls by Sean Villanueva, Nicolas and Olivier Favresse, Ben Ditto and Bob Shepton and to the ascent up Mount Logan in Canada by Yasushi...


PHOTOS: Belgian's Greenland Round Up

Sean Villanueva, Nico Favresse, Olivier Favresse, Bob Shepton and Ben Ditto have returned from their expedition sailing around Greenland and pioneering new big wall free climbs. "The combination of sailing and climbing was perfect except for a few meals wasted overboard! On the other hand it kept us light for the climbing ;) ..."


Exotic New Routes on Greenland's Big Walls

This summer, brothers Nicolas and Olivier Favresse, fellow Belgian Sean Villanueva and American climber and photographer Ben Ditto climbed a string of new routes on the west coast of Greenland. To add to the adventure, they accessed these climbs from a floating base camp; British sailor Bob Shepton hosted the expedition on his 10-meter Westerly, Dodo's Delight. Despite a broken engine, Shepton sailed 300 miles in the first week of July through iceberg-filled fjords to Sortehul Fjordin. There, the crew set


Big New Route on Greenland’s “Impossible Wall”

Image from Google In mid-July, brothers Nicolas and Olivier Favresse, Sean Villanueva, and Ben Ditto established The Devils Brew, an 850-meter route on the Seagull Wall, a steep rock face on the west coast of Greenland. The expedition team completed the ascent with the help of Bob Shepton, a sailor who saw the potential on the wall and [...]