from The Alpinist - newswire
Mild weather and thick ice welcomed more than 3,000 climbers from around the world to the 17th Annual Ouray Ice Festival this weekend at the Ouray Ice Park in southwest Colorado. An early season of cold nights and warm afternoons created ideal ice conditions in the park's flooded box canyon, which set the stage for the festival's Elite Mixed Climbing Competition. Nathan Kutcher, in his first appearance at the festival, took home the championship title, beating the only other competitor to top out, Andres
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from The Adventure Blog
Climb For Change , a website that serves as a hub for climbers who are undertaking expeditions for charity, is sponsoring the Mountain Photography Competition for the 15th annual Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival , which takes place in February of 2012.Submissions are being accepted now through January 15th, with the finalists, which will be selected by a jury of professionals, being put on display at the festival. The grand prize winner of the competition will earn a two week guided ...
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from Upskill Climbing
Here's a collection of training tidbits from the world's best climber. Adam Ondra's training regime "I train more or less just by climbing. How simple! I train on couple of small bouldering walls, where I train endurance and bouldering power as well. I rarely climb indoor with rope because there are not good walls enough in the city. The way I train depends on what I am training for. If I am preparing for bouldering, I do just lot of hard boulders. If I train endurance I do laps. I figure out usually 20
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from The Adventure Blog
I mentioned the Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge last week when it got underway, but I completely forgot to update the final standings yesterday. The five-day event, which was a stage-based adventure race through the wilds of Tasmania, covered more than 350km (217 miles) and featured plenty of trekking, mountain biking, and paddling with some climbing, navigation, and other challenges sprinkled in for good measure. The fifth, and final stage, took place on Sunday, with the teams crossing the finish line in
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from The Adventure Blog
A century after he made his historic run, the shadow of Roald Amundsen looms large this week in the Antarctic, where many of the South Pole skiers are no doubt thinking about the Norwegian explorer who went before them. Wednesday marks the 100th anniversary of Amundsen's arrival at the South Pole, where a ceremony is planned to honor his achievement. That ceremony will kick off a month of remembrance for the triumph and tragedy that was the Amundsen-Scott battle for the Pole. One team that hopes to be in
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from The BMC News
GB Climbing Team has had a fantastic year with some great results in competitions across the World, but some of the team members have been recieving some amazing accolades off the wall as well.
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from The Adventure Blog
Earlier this week I posted the news that ALE's aircraft had finally started shuttling Antarctic explorers onto the ice, and after spending weeks in Punta Arenas, the teams seemed eager to get underway. Now, a few days later, most have left the Union Glacier Camp behind, and are now making their way South along a variety of routes. Amongst the teams that have finally gotten underway are the Aussie duo of James Castrission and Justin Jones . The two men caught a lift out to Hercules Inlet, the location of
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from Sean McColl
Another competition has passed and its sure that Ill remember everything about this competition for a long time. Ill also never forget the outcome as it was my best result at a lead world cup. By the time youve found this post, youll probably already know the result. I came 2nd in the world cup [...]
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from Rock Climbing UK
What happens when you put three 8C boulderers, a double world champion a rising star in a room full of the hardest competition blocs ever set each pitted against the rest to be crowned the best of the La Sportiva Legends? You get one hell of a competition, thats what! The La Sportva-Legends [...] A thing of legend 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: Adam Ondra becomes a bone marrow donor
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from Petzl Blog
Posted By Steve Mc Clure the 2011-10-27 Bits of rock can look pretty much the same, it doesnt matter where you are in the world. Big features, crazy formations, caves, pinnacles, whatever; up close and pulling hard, rock is rock. In a place like China you need to escape the system and explore the view, just to know where you are, or you might as well have stayed home! Petzl needed some filming for their new helmets and reverse 4, the stuff needed for a multi pitch. I was called in, partner to be ...
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