from The Adventure Blog
Earlier this week, Italian mountaineer HansKammerlander became the first person to climb the "Second Seven Summits," which are the mountains that are the second highest on each of the seven continents. Kammerlander complete his quest in Antarctica, where he reached the top of the 4851 meter (15,916 ft) Mt. Tyree. According to the Adventure Journal , Hans is just the eighth person to nab that summit in the past 15 years. Kammerlander climbed his first "second-seven" back in 2001, when he successfully topped
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from Ian Parnell Photography
Recently my job as a climbing magazine editor has been particularly frustrating. Despite a rather late start to the winter season it seemed everyone was making up for lost time with a string of very tough sounding new routes and repeats of several of last years hardest routes. Finally just before Christmas I was able to stop reading about everyone else's fun and get some action myself. I hooked up with Greg Boswell and James Dunn hoping for a few days high standard adventure, unfortunately as soon as I ...
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
How on earth? I did have a plan to do a few easy winter routes before trying a couple of harder new lines I have an eye on, but curiosity for the hard routes rapidly got the better of that. I just had three tries on a fantastic new line with a 6 metre horizontal roof. The first attempt was a bit of a poor show to be totally honest. Climbing with tools is definitely feeling a bit alien still, so I did a lot of craning my neck looking up at it and making various excuses. There’s nothing wrong with doing a
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from High Places
Steph : Just read a short blurb on Yahoo about you ( some of the Worlds best jobs ) Im just retiring and scared to death . you sound like a wonderfull person may God bless you and keep you safe Patrick Thank you Patrick, I hope that your retirement turns out [...]
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from High Places
Found you on a yahoo article called 10 of the wolds coolest jobs. I have no idea why we need all these Hollywood superhero movies when we have people like you!!! Gabriel Thanks Gabriel! Steph
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from Scottish Tooling Series
Since 2010 the STS has been organised on a non-profit basis by Pete Hill and Neil Silver two keen dry-tooling enthusiasts and competitors. The workload involved in organising the series is not insubstantial and with the intention of improving the series and achieving the aims of the community over the next couple of years we [...]
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from Kev Shields Climbing
On Saturday I was at Ratho to team up with Pauline and around 40 kids from the charity REACH which is for kids with Upper Limb Deficiencies. We only had an hour with each party of 20 and all the work was done by Ratho instructors, my job was basically to speak to the kids and try give them an idea of what climbing with a similar disability is like and try give some feedback. Some of them were very inspiring and determined. Yet some had very obviously had extremely sheltered lives and were convinced they
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from High Places
Hello Steph, I just read your book and I like it a lot. I am not a climber myself yet, but will treat myself with this new hobby when I quit my job in October. Anyway, I wonder how you can climb for 24-30 hours? Are you resting anything during such monster-climbs? Kind regards Caroline [...]
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from The Adventure Blog
This past weekend one of the top adventure races in North America took place at the Land Between The Lakes in Kentucky, where the Checkpoint Tracker Championship went down. The 24-hour event featured a tough course that was more than 100 miles in length and offered a great mix of trekking, mountain biking and paddling. More than 60 of the best adventure racing teams in the U.S. were on hand to compete, and in the end it was Team WEDALI (We Eat Dust And Like It) that took home the crown. From the sounds of
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from gravsports
First off, sorry for the long delay in blogging. I've been stupid busy with everything from getting my first guiding exam done, family, writing, doing a couple of TV shows and of course climbing, mountain biking (broke some ribs, healing now), travel, and just life. Enough excuses, I'm back, thanks for the heckling/encouraging emails. I'm going to do a new section of this blog where I answer questions from readers, starting with these: 1) There has be a lot of discussion on knots for tying ropes to rappel.
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