from Kev Shields Climbing
The other day I got word about my operation definitely being in November. Facing a move back to Ayrshire for a stint and having to be inactive for a while has re-awoken the demon and my normal drive to be in the mountains is in high gear. With this in mind and a decent forecast Suzy and I headed for the Buachaille on Wednesday. We decided on North Buttress, probably one of my favourite mountain days and apart from us getting mauled by the midge it was a brilliant day finished off nicely in the Clachaig!!
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from Kev Shields Climbing
Since the fall last year I knew I was going to have to come back to climbing and try better my E7 effort. I was almost happy to leave things at this level but I knew after the accident if I wanted to lay down the demon of fear I would have to push on further than before. I didn't realise at the time how much farther this would take me. Since I got back on my feet and back to the crags my whole life has been devoted to trying to find an E8 I could potentially climb. I have trained harder than ever and ...
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from UKClimbing.com News
Those of us who are following Dave MacLeod's blog know it has been a struggle, those of you who haven't can go there and read all about it, but now, finally, Dave has been able to make the first ascent of what he believes to be his most difficult boulder problem yet: Seven of nine, V14/8B+, at Glen Nevis.
In the end it came down to:
- A necessary change of mind set, inspired by Chris Sharma's comments about how he killed his "First round, first minute" related demons.
- A subtle refining...
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
A story by Ines Papert www.ines-papert.de | Text: Johanna Stöckl | Photos: Hans Hornberger www.hans-hornberger.de Während eines 8-tägigen Roadtripps durch Schottland, realisierten Ines Papert (Deutschland) and Charly Fritzer (Österreich) mit „Triple X“ und „Bavarinthia“ schwierige Erstbegehungen am Ben Nevis und am Coire an Lochain in den Cairngorms. Darüber hinaus gelangen Wiederholungen namhafter Routen. Nach ihrer Feuertaufe im letzten Jahr, machte sich die deutsche Alpinistin Ines Papert
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
A story by Ines Papert Photo credit: Hans Hornberger www.hans-hornberger.com During a week winter climbing in Scotland, Ines Papert and Charly Fritzer have established Triple X, VIII,8 on Ben Nevis and Bavarinthia IX, 9 at Coire an Lochain in the Cairngorms. After last year's baptism of fine, German alpinist Ines Papert returned to Scotland at the end of January together with Charly Fritzer from Austria where she carried out a string of important repeats, including the first repeat of "To those who wait"
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from Kev Shields Climbing
Recently I've been trying a lot of new routes and attempting repeats but without much success. Most of the time it's been down to my hand and regardless of how much I try to accept I'm disabled I can't seem to quite get there with it and it makes me angry with myself. In turn though I hate myself for being weak in not accepting that I'm different. If I could beat these pathetic weaknesses then maybe the demons that push me so hard wouldn't have such a hold over me and my life, whether this would be good or
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from The Adventure Blog
I don't do a lot of coverage of the surf scene here on the Adventure Blog, but even I was well aware of talented surfer Andy Irons and was surprised by his untimely death a few weeks back, something that shocked the surfing community and left many wondering what happened. Outside Magazine has put together a great article about three-time world surfing champ and the demons he battled over the course of his career in the form of drug and alcohol abuse. Brad Melekian, the author of the article, spoke to many
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from The Rest of Everest Video Podcast (iPod/AppleTV)
No Demons Here. We made it into Gyangtse today after some incredible scenery along the way. This is Tibets 4th largest city and the view is dominated by a fortress on a hill. Spectacular. We were all getting pretty hungry so Lobsang took us to get some Tibetan Noodles. I had never had any before [...]
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from The Rest of Everest Video Podcast (iPod/AppleTV)
No Demons Here. We made it into Gyangtse today after some incredible scenery along the way. This is Tibet's 4th largest city and the view is dominated by a fortress on a hill. Spectacular.
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