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Rusty Wackerman Climbs With A Legend!

This spring and summer, the Club entered all new Members (and any current Members that renewed) into our Climb With a Legend Sweepstakes. We drew a winner and Utahs Rusty Wackerman won $1,000 in cash for travel lodging, a $500 Black Diamond Gift Card, and his choice of four ... Read more...

Kalymnos 2011 - Trip Report 11 (The finale! Odyssey & the SG)

This is the end my friends. The final trip report from Upskill 2011 Kalymnos climbing camps. This'll be a good-un though, so read on for your last little hit of Kalymnos for the year. ODYSSEY A bit of a fave, you've probably gathered by now. Day nine of climbing and there were some tired bodies! But only two days of climbing left, so time to pull out all the stops and give it heaps! Besides, it had to be Odyssey, as Bo refused to leave the island without Atena 6b+ in her satchel. We headed up to the left

The Haunted Hut of Ecuador

The Whymper Hut on Chimborazo The hut keepers won't sleep in the Whymper Hut on Chimborazo. For them it's not a myth or a legend. It's a fact. The Whymper Hut is haunted. The hut keepers all have ghost stories about the place. They've all see...

A thing of legend…

What happens when you put  three 8C boulderers, a double world champion a rising star in a room full of the hardest competition blocs ever set each pitted against the rest to be crowned the best of the La Sportiva Legends? You get one hell of a competition, thats what! The La Sportva-Legends [...] A thing of legend is a post from: Rock Climbing UK , an online UK climbing magazine, written BY UK climbers FOR UK climbers. If you liked this post, you might also like: Adam Ondra becomes a bone marrow donor

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Legends Only, Adam Ondra wins in Stockholm

In Sweden Adam Ondra wins the 'Legends Only' competition ahead of Dmitry Sharafutdinov, Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson and Anthony Gullsten.

Walter Bonatti Dies aged 81

One of the legends of world climbing, Walter Bonatti, has died on Tuesday 13th September in Rome aged 81.

Season 2 Trailer

Rise up. Become legend. Welcome to The Season 2. A 22-episode web TV series following five athletes through the course of a single season. Episide 1 will premiere here on arcteryx.com September 6th. - http://www.theseasontv.com/

Controversy Surrounds Everest Expedition To Search For Irvine And The Camera

More than 87 years after their deaths on Everest, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine continue to cast large shadows over the mountain. For decades, historians have wondered whether or not Mallory and Irvine reached the summit of the mountain 29 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Either way, the two men died on the descent, and created a mystery of epic proportions that still inspires climbers and explorers to this day. The discovery of Mallory's body, high on the mountain, back in 1999 has done

Gritstone

After my all-too-brief stay in North Wales, I went to Sheffield with Alan James director of Rockfax Publishing and UKClimbing . This was a great opportunity to revisit a place I had not been to since college when I spent a couple of semesters at the university and doing a lot of climbing, especially on gritstone. Coming from a background of New Hampshire granite, the cracks and slabs of Peak District gritstone were a natural fit but there was also the allure of entering an intense urban climbing scene, the