from Dave MacLeod Climbing
The trauma of Saturday’s efforts has put my ankle injury back a bit, so it’s no climbing for me for another wee while to give the wound a chance to knit again. Unfortunately, I think it could get in the way of finishing my big trad projects of the summer. But never say die… Who cares? At least I got through Saturday. I didn’t really tell anyone, but the whole of last week passed in a preoccupied state of worry that I wouldn’t be able to climb on the day. On the Wednesday morning I got out of bed
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from Mountains and Water
"Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence then is this worship of the past?" Ralph Waldo Emerson, from the essay "Self-Reliance" I have always had a great regard for the past history of climbing, indeed as a boy I absorbed with great enthusiasm the stories of the heroes of climbing, both European and American. A great body of literature was produced in the period that climbing emerged as a ...
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from UKClimbing.com News
James McHaffie and Nick Bullock have repeated Rubble E7 6a, 6a, 5a
Reported on the DMM Website:
A repeat of an E7 by James McHaffie and Nick Bullock may not seem like 'hold the front page' news by today's standards, but then Rubble is no ordinary route. A clue to the route's nature lies in its name.
It's one of those Gogarth routes with an aura about it. One that hasn't diminished since Paul Pritchard and Leigh McGinley first climbed it in 1991. And one of most obvious lines you'll...
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from UKClimbing.com News
Fort William Mountain Festival starts this coming Friday, 6th March and runs through to Saturday 14th March. The Festival kicks off Friday 6th March with a ceilidh 2150ft up Aonach Mor.
Top speakers include Adrian Burgess and Slovenian climbing superstar Marko Prezelj, Dave MacLeod and Paul Pritchard, and walkers/conservationists Cameron McNeish and Richard Else.
Films include The Best Of Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, an International Adventure Film Competition and Claire...
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