from Stories From a Climbing Life
I havent felt much like blogging since we arrived in Moes. Unfortunately, I sustained a finger injury the fourth day we were here and have subsequently been forced to take it easy. Im not one for blogging when energy and enthusiasm are low. Ill start form the beginning. Oh yeah, were in Moes. We flew [...]
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from The Adventure Blog
It is the fourth day of Expedition Bolivia , the latest adventure from the impossible2Possible crew. This time out, Ray Zahab and his team, are taking a group of youth ambassadors across the salt flats of Bolivia, known as the Salar de Uyuni on foot. The expedition is expected to last about a week, and will cover 250 km (155 miles) in total. As is typical with any expedition from i2P, there is an educational outreach aspect to this adventure as well. The youth ambassadors, all of which are in their mid to
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
A Story by Jonathan Siegrist For myself, every breakthrough achievement in my life began with a distant goal. Once I've totally committed to it, there immediately exists a void between myself and success. Setting a goal is no doubt the first step, but what comes next is the real test - paving that void with growth and dedication. In the case of rock climbing that growth may come in the form of training a specific strength, engaging your mind, or developing a new skill set. Regardless of the specific type
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from Upskill Climbing
Hey again. It dawned on us a little bit cold and a little bit windy. Good friction though! The module we completed in the morning over breakfast was on "The art of warming up" and it was an appropriate one for the day. The sector Spartacus is one of my favourites. I think the group is getting sick of me saying something is my favourite. They're all my favourites! Well, not really, but there's so many good things here. Spartacus is a large orange bowl, with long tufa-streaked vertical walls on either side,
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Over a two-week period in February, Austrians Albert Leichtfried and Benedikt Purner traveled to Lyngenfjord in northern Norway to explore icefalls in the Lyngen Alps. The result was a series of impressive ascents, including two WI7s. Unsure of what they would find in Lyngen, they took a chance after speaking with Graham Austick, owner and manager of Lyngen Lodge. Austick provided old photos and arcane directions to the icefalls, many of which required two-hour approaches on snowshoes. Leichtfried and ...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Yannick Graziani and Christian Trommsdorff, the French duo first to climb the south face of Nemjung (7140m) last month (read the October 30, 2009 NewsWire ), have called their new line "maybe the most beautiful we have ever done, certainly the most continuously steep, sustained and constantly exposed." Graziani and Trommsdorff traveled to Nepal with hopes of climbing Manaslu (8156m). But after only three days of acclimatizing at 5200m, 5400m and 5600m on nearby ridges followed by 12 days of bad weather,
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from B3bouldering.com
Saturday we went back to Upper Chaos. This was my fourth day on and I was feeling pretty tired. Wednesday and Thursday I had full setting and forerunning sessions at Movement, where I have begun setting. More on that later. It was warm, and we stopped at The Marble V10, so Justin Jaeger [...]
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from Jon Glassberg
I'm headed to Raleigh, NC today to catch a flight to Manchester, NH to visit Gavin, Max, and Doug. The Heart of Steel Bouldering Competition is on Saturday and there is some descent money up for grabs as well as some potentially awesome finals rounds set up... The finals rounds are going to have cash taped to the wall, game show style, that you grab as you go by and you potentially can make up to $1000 by finishing the problems the other can't. There will be a few strong guys there that I know of, Vasya
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
"The hardest pitch is not the A5-traverse, Golden Desert or The Move. The hardest pitch is a short 5.12c downclimb." That's what everyone was saying. 5.12c? Isn't that like 7b+ or something? When was the last time you tried a 7b+ that you couldn't do, Stefan asked. The first day couldn't have been much smoother. We quickly passed the crux slab pitches of Freeblast, simul-climbed passed the formation called Half Dollar and reched the Heart ledges well before lunch. Two slabs and one off-width later we met
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