from Dave MacLeod Climbing
Paul Diffley captures the action from an airy filming position on the Longhope route. Photo: Lukasz Warzecha On February 8th, myself, Andy Turner and filmmaker Paul Diffley will be speaking at the Royal Geographical Society in London about the Longhope route. Mountain Equipment and Gore-Tex have helped us arrange an evening of entertainment at the RGS to share with you what was pretty memorable adventure for us, both in terms of the climbers involved in attempting to climb this cliff over 40 years, and in
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from The Adventure Blog
Earlier this year the Space Shuttle program was put on mothballs , effectively closing the book on an era of manned space travel. While it was sad to see it go, it was time. The Shuttle was an aging piece of equipment that was long over due for a replacement. The problem is, with an ongoing economic crisis causing budget cuts, NASA doesn't have a new system ready to go, and it will be years before they are ready to launch the Shuttle's replacement. That hasn't stopped them from preparing for the future of
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from The Adventure Blog
Belgian adventure Louis-Philippe Loncke has completed his BelgiKayak expedition, which sent him on a 600km (373 mile) journey around his home country, exploring its waterways and measuring their health, while filming the experience as a way of documenting what he saw along the way. What he found was incredible beauty that is threatened by man. I received a note last night from Lou-Phi giving me insights into his expedition which ended when he reached the North Sea this past weekend. Traveling along ...
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from The Adventure Blog
Last Saturday, a group of cyclists set out from Los Angeles, California on a 3000 mile bike ride/race across the United States in an effort to raise funds for Blue Planet , an organization dedicated to delivering safe drinking water to the world.Ultimately, they hope to complete the journey in just eight days, eventually ending their ride in Annapolis, Maryland. If successful, they'll have completed a race that is longer than the Tour de France and in just a fourth ofthe time. These efforts are taking ...
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from The Adventure Blog
As predicted last week, the weather window on Everest this past weekend was a good one, an many climbers went up to the summit. There are some indications that as many as 100 people stood on top on Friday and a similar number may have gone up on Saturday as well. One of the first to top out on Saturday was Alan Arnette , whose expedition we've been following closely for the entire season. As regular readers of this blog know, Alan has been climbing Everest as the third leg of his 7 Summits for Alzheimer's
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from Steven Hope
On pitch 3 looking up the wall makes it look pretty easy, but there’s a real problem with perspective here. For those unfamiliar, the line follows a crack system up to the small triangular roof - close up below.
Finally looking down from near the top, I still think it’s not as big as I thought. At 5.8 C2, it’s technically possible for me one day, with the biggest hurdle for me being getting there for the right conditions.
Original images from ukclimbing.com .
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from Life in the Vertical
Well my computer has died, well i am hoping that its just the battery as £1000 is at least a months worth of the states gone! Besides my plan to save has hit a bit of a hurdle as my main employer the Brenin appears to be very quiet at the moment, what with the [...]
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from Climbing Narcissist
Climbing clears another hurdle on the path toward becoming an Olympic sport
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Climbing.com Chris Sharma Interview
Climbing TV Show Coming To National Geographic Channel?
Win A Free Climbing DVD
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from The Adventure Blog
In just a few short months, Ripley Davenport will set out on his Mongolia 2010 Expedition , in which he'll attempt to become the first person to trek solo, and unsupported across the entire country. Traveling from East to West, he'll cover more than 1700 miles from the Mongolian Steppe, through the Gobi Desert and onto the Altai Mountain Range, all the while pulling a cart behind him that will contain all of his supplies and gear. If successful, this will set the new standard for trekking, becoming the ...
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from The Adventure Blog
When last we check in on Ed and Cho, they were going off the grid for awhile and facing some hurdles to their completion of their expedition. The boys were desperately low on food and weren't sure if they were going to be able to make it to their next supply village. Today, they finally reemerged, and have given us some updates via their Twitter feed . Ed and Cho had estimated that they had roughly eight days worth of rations when they lost contact with the outside world, and according to their tweets, ...
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