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2011-10-19 10:46:00

Petzl RocTrip 2011 : Gétû Valley, China The Petzl RocTrip 2011 will take place in the Getu valley located in the heart of China from October 26 – 30, 2011. Team Petzl’s climbers have completely equipped this totally new site for the event. The goal of the RocTrip is to bring professional and amateur climbers together in a truly exceptional place . At the Petzl RocTrip China 2011, participants will be offered no fewer than 250 climbing pitches spread across 15 sectors in the valley. On the menu: a ...


You Don’t Need to be Steve Mcclure to Set a New Trad Route

A couple of weeks ago I arranged to head out for some climbing with Craig, a friend of mine who I met on Twitter last year sometime (@activemindcoach good follow suggestion for those of you into Twitter). We threw a few ideas about for a trad session, but then Craig came up with the [...] You Don’t Need to be Steve Mcclure to Set a New Trad Route 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: ...


The Ferret F8b – Robins cleans up old project at LPT

Pete Robins has cleaned up the old project line left of Melanchollie down at Lower Pen Trwyn. It was originally bolted around 20 years ago and has since seen attention from various strong people, including Matt Donelly, Mark Katz, and Danny Cattell and Steve McClure, who both came very close to doing it. Pete and Chris [...]


VIDEO: Steve McClure - Norway DWS Splash Down

Steve McClure recently attended a Deep Water Soloing competition in Norway, and came in fifth place, but he did win the best splash down! Steve reported on the event on his Petzl blog: "Myself, Ben Heason, Gav Symonds and Aid Baxter warmed up ready for a plunge. All pretty used to DWS, this 10-12m wall wasn't phasing us. The rule was simple: everyone had to go in, even if they topped, there was no way round the back! This is one of the rules I'd insisted, along with there being no...


The Old Magic

Image from Google 'Lets see some of that old magic' was a phrase Matt Dickinson used to me on one of my first ever expeditions - the first ascent of The Thumbnail, a giant sea cliff in Greenland. I was trying to gather my nerves to lead a bold looking blank wall about 15 pitches above the fjord but despite Matt's encouragement I ended up bottling it and handing over the lead. Matt committed and found surprisingly reasonable climbing opening up the way to the upper headwall of the route. That was back in '99 and whilst the


FRI NIGHT VID: McClure on Quarryman and More

Image from Google This week's Friday Night Video is footage of Jorg Verhoeven onsighting Strawberries (E7), Steve McClure on the Quarryman (E8) and Sarah Seeger climbing Statement of Youth (F8a). The film is s short clip from the Marmot Rocks North Wales trip in May 2011.


Steve McClure Flashes the Traverse of the Gods

Steve McClure has onsighted/flashed the Traverse of the Gods at the Lancashire bouldering venue of Craig y Longridge . The boulder problem is a huge traverse of the entire cliff and is given a sport grade of F8b+.


Open discussion with Johnny Dawes

Image from Google   " Stuff of legends. And climbed by the legend Johnny Dawes ." Steve McClure     So we'll discuss here with Johnny Dawes ! …


Steve McClure Repeats The Quarryman (E8)

Despite damp conditions in North Wales, Steve McClure has managed to make the probable first one day ascent of The Quarryman (E8) in the Dinorwig slate quarries, Llanberis. The four pitch route was first climbed by Johnny Dawes and has seen perhaps a handful of repeats in different forms, mainly just of the top two pitches.


F8c+ for Steve McClure

Image from Google Steve McClure has climbed the 35m limestone sport route of Blomu (F8c+) at Santa Linya, Spain. Santa Linya is a huge limestone cave near Lleida in northern Spain.