from Climber's Blog
(below)Kakkiviaq(Groove Under Nose), Penny Crags, Pk. 1460, June 2011."Pee Mark:" 1. Spraying; deposition of urine used by animals to identify territory.2. A post which serves no other useful purpose than to id...
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from INCLINED
Keywords:
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Jeff Lowe,
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rockstar-intern Ben Mitchell-Lewis,
website, jeffloweclimber.com,
early fundraising,
historic 1991 climb,
organizational snafus,
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World Cup—An Interview
With the Boulder World Cup approaching fast and The American Alpine Club an IFSC World Cup Partner, our rockstar-intern Ben Mitchell-Lewis caught up with Jeff Lowe, famed alpinist and organizer of the original World Cup events held in the United States. Jeff is a wealth of information on the subject, their talk led from early fundraising and organizational snafus to Lynn Hill’s climb up the Nose and back again. Jeff’s ongoing project, Metanoia, is a film documenting his historic 1991 climb up the North
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from The Adventure Blog
On Monday of this week, a dramatic and scary rescue took place on the Gasherbrums when a number of teams helped to safely bring a Pakistani porter down from the mountain. Unfortunately, according to this report from ExWeb , the Japanese team that had employed him was not amongst those trying to rescue him. According to the story, the porter took ill on a climb up to Camp 1, located at about 5900 meters (19,356 feet) and had to be assisted down. ExWeb says that the man was bleeding from both the mouth and
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
On June 8th I rolled into the Valley with plans to do two things. One was an all disabled ascent of El Cap, and two, was a one-day ascent of the Nose. I picked up my partner Jarem in Fresno and we chatted about doing Lurking Fear on the Capitan. The first day of free climbing broke one prototype foot, and a little of his confidence, but we pushed on. Two days later and 500 feet up the route, his leg fell off, yes, off…Luck was with us as it got stuck in a sling he had cleaned and swung under him like a
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from The Adventure Blog
Rock climber Alex Honnold is once again pushing the boundaries of rock climbing in Yosemite National Park , a place that has become his own personal playground over the past few years. According to Climbing.com , Honnold made a solo, ropeless ascent of The Phoenix , knocking off a route that is rated as a 5.13a. He reportedly went on to free climb Chouinard-Herbert a 5.11+ route the next day as well. Both climbs were captured on film. According to the Climbing.com story, The Phoenix took just eight minutes
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from James Pearson
Sun, sea, speed boats and secret beaches – my last weekend in Sardinia. 2am was not a happy hour for waking up, and was even less happy when I walked out of my door to pouring rain and a flat battery in my car. With my brain still cloudy from sleep, I struggled to think how I would fix this problem and still catch my soon to depart flight, from Munich, two hours drive away. The garage was closed, I had no jump leads, and the airport shuttle had already left... things were not looking good. The €300 ...
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from Mountains and Water
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
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from The Adventure Blog
A couple of weeks back I posted about a fascinating set of articles that had been published at Alpinist.com . Dubbed the "Speed Series" the stories were a set of interviews with some of the top speed climbers on the planet, including Alex Honnold , Sean Leary, and Dean Potter . Since then, there have been two more additions to the Speed Series, putting Ueli Steck and Hans Florine under the microscope. Part III of the series is with Steck, who, for my money, just might be the strongest climber on the ...
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from Kevin Jorgeson
For some reason, it takes me a long time to accept a new project. In a purgatory of non-committment, an idea for a new line will sit for weeks, months, even years. Then, one day, a switch flips. I become obsessed. Usually this happens when I come to the realization that the project is possible. This is exactly what happened yesterday with a line I have been looking at for LONG time. It's right under our noses, just right of the quintessential highball, Evilution. The Grandpa Peabody Several seasons ago,
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from gravsports
The Review Issue Way back in the day (mid-nineties) I was the primary equipment reviewer for RockIce magazine. I loved that job for three reasons: First, I could get whatever gear I was interested in sent to me. Second, I would get all of that category of gear sent to me; hundreds of climbing holds for example, or a massive pile of roughly 50L packs. Third, I could basically write whatever I wanted to about the gear, and did. Today I get paid by a few different companies to test products and develop ideas
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