from Stevie Haston
WARNING : Don’t read this if you are not a nerdy climber! Mine is bigger than yours! I had a couple of Emails late last from America concerning the ethics of Trad-climbing and crack climbing, mainly from older climbers or people with a strong foundation in climbing on gear. Climbing on gear is very special in that it allows you to protect your route without anything being in place and thus ‘clean’, it is in fact termed clean climbing sometimes, and it also allows you at its best to do new routes ...
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from INCLINED
With the Boulder World Cup approaching fast and The American Alpine Club an IFSC World Cup Partner, our rockstar-intern Ben Mitchell-Lewis caught up with Jeff Lowe, famed alpinist and organizer of the original World Cup events held in the United States. Jeff is a wealth of information on the subject, their talk led from early fundraising and organizational snafus to Lynn Hill’s climb up the Nose and back again. Jeff’s ongoing project, Metanoia, is a film documenting his historic 1991 climb up the North
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from Climber's Blog
Racing photos are almost by definition redundant, and what they say doesnt often add a lot to the conversation. This shot of American downhiller Aaron Gwin from last weeks World Cup race in Leogang, Austria, doesnt tell a story on its own, but its a great photo for letting your eye wander and imagination fill [...]
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from The Adventure Blog
One of the top adventure races on the schedule for this summer is the Raid the North Extreme , which will take place from July 23rd-31st in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. The event is a 500km long expedition length race with all the traditional adventure racing elements, namely coed teams of four trekking, mountain biking, paddling, and navigating their way through an amazing wilderness setting. The organizers for the Raid have now announced that they have signed a deal to bring the race to
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from The MountainWorld™ Blog
In my line of work, I'm honored to be able to participate in a lot of great events across the country and around the world. In the next two weeks, I'll be a part of some exciting ones: Telluride MountainFilm...
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from The Adventure Blog
As widely reported last week, Tyler Hamilton was on the CBS news show 60 Minutes over the weekend, where he recounted tales of performance enhancing drug use by Lance Armstrong and other members of the U.S. Postal Team which dominated the Tour de France a decade ago. If you missed the report, and want to catch-up, a transcript and several videos are available by clicking here . During the interview, Hamilton talked about the use of EPO, testosterone, and even blood transfusions that he, and his teammates,
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from 9b - Everyone's Blog Posts
Soon, something like this (discussion with Andreas is still open), or Adam Ondra interview .
A CONVERSATION, open to ALL climbers and climbing journalists/web editors, more than a formal interview .
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from Life in the Vertical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLB-uMPj27s I was reminded of this clip, when I did a similar thing on Monday. A great looking woman, into climbing, comes up and starts talking to me (Believe me this is a Very rare event!), as she remembers me from years ago at the climbing wall. Slideshow starts, so our conversation was cut short, [...]
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from Mountains and Water
In response to a post I made earlier this week, Andrew Bisharat, editor at Rock and Ice had this to say: "This is exactly the reason why blogs are never going to replace actual content created by legitimate media sources. Your post is uninformed, poorly researched, completely made up off the top of your head, and makes sweeping generalizations that largely aren't true (and none of which are substantiated by any facts) just in order to make yourself sound as if you know what you're talking about. Peter, do
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from Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton
Photos courtesy of Zac Poulton, James Morrison and Mark Scales Scottish winter kit So having just returned from my first Scottish winter, I thought now would be a good time to share the experience. It’s hard to know where to start, as packing my bags for the trip seems a lifetime ago. I guess a good place is in fact the packing. So having seen the kit list from AP, and confident I had most of the kit; I set about the challenge of packing all the kit into two bags. This went strangely to plan, and left me
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