from Dave MacLeod Climbing
Paul Diffley captures the action from an airy filming position on the Longhope route. Photo: Lukasz Warzecha On February 8th, myself, Andy Turner and filmmaker Paul Diffley will be speaking at the Royal Geographical Society in London about the Longhope route. Mountain Equipment and Gore-Tex have helped us arrange an evening of entertainment at the RGS to share with you what was pretty memorable adventure for us, both in terms of the climbers involved in attempting to climb this cliff over 40 years, and in
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from Rock Climbing UK
It is some 45 years since John Harlin fell to his death from the Eiger Nordwand in 1966, however the pain and power of the event still looms large in the psyche of Sir Chris Bonnington. On Thursday 1st December I had the pleasure of hearing him speak on the subject at the Royal Geographical [...] The Eiger – Triumph and Tragedy, and an Evening at the RGS 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:
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from The BMC News
Entry to the Alpine Club library is free to BMC Individual members on production of a membership card. This is also so for members of AC, FRCC, SAC and RGS
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from The BMC News
Keywords:
25 expeditions in 2011,
November 2010 fund-raising lecture,
25 exploratory expeditions,
fund-raising lecture,
recent financial crisis,
tune of £36,200,
25 expeditions,
strong recovery,
expeditions in 2011,
exploratory expeditions
Thanks to a strong recovery from the recent financial crisis, and the success of the November 2010 fund-raising lecture at the RGS, the Mount Everest Foundation has been able to support 25 exploratory expeditions to the tune of £36,200.
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from Ian Parnell Photography
This Thursday, if you live in London well worth catching Will Gadd at the RGS. Will is a true phenomenon, one of the world's most impressive and creative climbers and all-round outdoor athletes/explorers but he is also an outstanding communicator. If you aren't 10% more alive at the end of this show then you are probably fast on your way to clocking out already.
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from The BMC News
The Mount Everest Foundation annual fund raising lecture, which took place on the 4th November in the Royal Geographical Society, celebrated the 40th anniversary of the second and third ascents of Annapurna.
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from Dream Guides Latest News Blog
Hi Guys Its been a little while since the last blog and that's due to the amazing week that's just gone. Our friends from Allied bakeries were back in the Alps with some big plans. Mark and Steve both climbed with us last year and now they brought their city trader big bonus mate Tim with them for extra clout. Between us we had some big plans but the rather poor weather made everything a little tricky. Starting in Switzerland we hoped to climb the Weissmess, a classic 4000m peak as a warm up, unfortunately
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from Ian Parnell Photography
Here's a few things that popped up last week on the web that I thought were interesting. Will Gadd - Candian Winter maestro has blogged about some great time saving tricks for multi-pitch ice climbs, many of which could be of equal use for alpine routes. http://gravsports.blogspot.com/2010/02/simple-tricks-for-speed-on-multi-pitch.html In case you've been on holiday or had a power cut, big news of the week, month erm...year is that Dave Macleod has completed his winter project on Ben Nevis - E8 with axes
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