from Mountains and Water
If you are interested in learning more about what makes an elite-level boulderer tick, please check out my interview with Carlo Traversi . As part of my bouldering book blog, I plan on talking periodically with leaders in the sport about what they think is important for developing as a climber. Carlo Traversi: Alpine Sessions from Five Ten on Vimeo .
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from The Adventure Blog
The winter attempt on Denali may be over for Lonnie Dupre , who was picked-up from Base Camp on Monday, but in the Karakoram, things are just getting started. Several teams have now settled into place and are working their routes in hopes of success during the coldest, harshest season of them all. On K2, the Russians are methodically sticking to their plan, and going about their work, in a professional and straightforward fashion. The weather has been less than cooperative so far, but that was to be ...
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from Online Climbing Coach
I went bouldering outdoors for the first time in two months yesterday. Lochaber deluge enforced indoor training regime. I was shocked at how tentative I was and worried about bad landings after so long falling onto big friendly climbing wall mats. Note to self, and anyone else in the same situation: Too much time above big mats destroys your boldness and ability to fall properly outdoors on poor landings. Not much you can do about this other than be aware of it and take care to give some time to retraining
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
I can’t believe 2 months had passed without climbing outdoors on rock in Scotland. I can’t remember the weather being so unhelpful during the winter for several years. Lochaber has just been hammered with rain and gales and it seems my options for getting on projects have been basically nil. No matter, all the training on plastic has been worth it. But severe withdrawal symptoms from climbing a real piece of rock set in and so I took a gamble and drove over to the Aberdeen sea cliffs in the hope of ...
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from Stevie Haston
New year full of promise, but empty purse, replete with woe. I want to do some good stuff this year, it doesn’t have to be earth shattering, but it either has to be magical, or majorly monstrous, but always memorial. Bearing this all in mind and the empty purse, one would at first think this is all impossible, but the first step was yesterday. Let me explain. Yesterday I had a little run, I mean little really, it was 5kms! I have been injured since last October, a bad tear in my calf, anyway I been ...
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from Stevie Haston
Peter Minks otherwise known as Minks, died of cancer on the 7th. He was one of the reasons I fell in love with the North Wales crew and had such a ball in the late 70’s. As a climber he had nimble feet and was Whillans like in his physique, he did the second solo of the Walker back in the day and was very proficient at all parts of the game. The game of course wasn’t just climbing it was about fun and carousing. I can think of alotta his mates dropping a tear into a pint or ten. He and I did a very ...
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from The Adventure Blog
It was a rough weekend on Denali for Lonnie Dupre , who was hoping to make the first solo ascent of that mountain in January. After establishing his high camp last week, the weather took a turn for the worse, with temperatures dropping dramatically and winds increasing to dangerous levels. Despite those conditions however,the weather forecasts called for a potential weather window that would allow him to go to the summit sometime over the weekend . But that window never opened, and after spending several
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from Stevie Haston
Hydrophobia attack You know every body thinks they are unique, but there is nothing unique about most of us. Do you have a tail? What you don’t! What makes you good at something? Is it hard work, or that special something? Let me tell ya, that special something is just hard work, it aint your inherent genius, cos you aint special. Hard work is actually the key, try planting a field, try harvesting, try ffing anything for that matter. I love running not because it is exciting, or ‘extreme man’, but
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from Rock Climbing UK
Check out this years Fort William Mountain Festival. Films Events Lectures Exhibitions Guided Walks Skills Workshops The event runs from the 15th 19th February 2012 Festival Highlights Wednesday 15th February 2012 – Festival Launch Evening Thursday 16th February 2012 - Bike Night with Steve Peat Friday 17th February 2012 – Mountaineering Evening with Bob Shepton and [...] Fort William Mountain Festival 2012 is a post from: Rock Climbing UK , an online UK climbing magazine, written BY UK climbers FOR
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from Rock Climbing UK
With the arrival of the New Year, now’s a perfect time to plan your rock climbing objectives for 2012 and develop a training program that will help achieve them. These objectives can be anything from doing your first E1, increasing your climbing grade from 7a to 7c or doing a specific route. Using a Scoring [...] Turbo Charged New Years Training Resolutions 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 ...
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