from UKClimbing.com News
In this, the final video in the Mountain Equipment series, we talk to Dave MacLeod, perhaps currently the UK's top all round climber.
Dave talks about his climbing achievements, his super-route Echo Wall , how he tries to balance his obsession with big routes with a 'normal life' and his intimate relationship with Ben Nevis.
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from Kelly Cordes
Ever since writing my big exposé on the sordid underbelly of alpinism (“I Just Want to Be Held”), I’ve been inundated with requests. No, not requests for climbing partners. Rather, terrified requests from doe-eyed young alpinists: “But…how can I finish that big route before dark? I don’t want to be the big spoon. I don’t [...]
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from Online Climbing Coach
Ross asked me recently about making the transition to routes from an apprenticeship in bouldering. With ‘bouldering only’ climbing walls becoming ever more popular, there is an increasing body of young climbers who have an entire apprenticeship on them and make a difficult transition to route climbing after a year or two. These climbers get pumped really easily on F6s even though they can boulder Font 7s. Their initial feeling is to blame lack of endurance fitness, which is of course a part of the ...
published: about 1 year ago
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from INCLINED
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Just about every day I stumble upon a new climbing blog or expedition report, or some other venue online where climbers are doing major things and reporting in on their progress. Many of the ones that come through the AAC office are from grant winners, attempting big routes with AAC funding, but many others are [...]
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
A story by Roger Strong After recently becoming a father, I've found that my time management for work, trying stay fit, and balance the challenges of parenthood demands a lot more planning and patience than anything else I've experienced in my life. A couple months after my wife Merridy gave birth to Maya (she's now almost 8 months) I found myself in pathetic physical shape. Merridy was overly motivated to crack the whip and get back at it, but keeping up with the J.O.B. and learning to be a parent forced
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from gravsports
After a week with my friend Andreas Spak in Norway I've got some things to say about speed on big routes. Andreas climbs faster than most, is always up for a big route, and is tough enough to get the job done, but I always seem to learn or re-learn some stuff when doing big new routes with him in Norway. Here are a few "speed" tricks for big routes that are primarily multi-pitch without walking steps (those steps call for T Bloks etc., not covered here). -Use a single 70M rope to lead on. This cuts ...
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from Climber's Blog
Our Warranty Manager and all-around cranker, Chris Thomas , is down in Argentine Patagonia for the next three weeks with climber/photographer Ben Ditto, hoping for a weather window in order to make an ascent in the Cerro Torre or Fitzroy massif. Below is an email that Chris sent to Peter Metcalf (our CEO and President) shortly upon his arrival in EL Chalten, the launching point for ascents in the area. From: Chris Thomas Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 5:03 PM To: Peter Metcalf Subject: El Chalten Hola de
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from UKClimbing.com News
UKC Editor Jack Geldard interviews the 16 year old Scotsman Jonny Stocking about climbing F8a+, E6 and big routes in the Dolomites.
Jonny's mum Lorraine said:
"Some of stories he tells me at times make me go Oh-My-God! I think I have just learnt not to ask him too much in case I have heart failure!"
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