from Rock Climbing UK
Andy Kirkpatrick is a man who’s not afraid to look unflinchingly at himself in the mirror, and he’s not afraid to write about what he finds. Even as this book was being published, he was making a solo attempt on the Troll Wall in Norway, getting his fill of the “cold and suffering” in which [...] Cold Wars – Andy Kirkpatrick 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: Andy Kirkpatricks talk
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from The Alpinist - newswire
June 25, a team led by Alexander Odintsov climbed a new route on the west face of Latok III (6949m). Odintsov and team members Alexey Lonchinskiy, Ivan Dozhdev and Eugeniy Dmitrenko began this expedition on June 10, establishing nine camps in their fifteen-day climb. Two days after reaching the summit, the team returned to base camp. This climb caps an eleven year bid for the west face of Latok III. Prior to Odintsov's success, Latok III had only one route to its summit. This line ran up the peak's ...
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from Climber's Blog
(Back to: Europe, Norway, South, Romsdal) Trollryggen, Trollveggen, Arch Wall, first free ascent. By Lindsay Griffin, Mountain INFO, from material provided by Marten Blixt and Bjorn-Eivind Artun The highlight of climbing activity in Norway during 2010 was undoubtedly the free ascent of Arch Wall on Romsdals iconic Trollveggen, the Troll Wall. For some, this ascent was [...]
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from UKClimbing.com News
We picked up an interesting article on a Norwegian local web site about an intrepid man spotted below the famous Troll Wall in Norway.
"The police strongly advised him against carrying out his plans at this time of the year."
We can reveal that this is a certain Englishman who had set off to solo the Troll Wall in winter...
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from The BMC News
The climbing world has been stunned by the news of Sindre Saether's free ascent of Arch Wall, a rarely repeated, legendary line up the centre of Romsdal's iconic Troll Wall.
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from Life in the Vertical
In my life I have been lucky enough to visit some amazing place from my first route in Wales top roping red, Yellow, .. on Rainbow Slab in the snow, through trips to font during my University years. Then my first big trip to attempt Troll Wall which resulted ultimately in failure, but at the [...]
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