from The Adventure Blog
Earlier this week I posted the news that ALE's aircraft had finally started shuttling Antarctic explorers onto the ice, and after spending weeks in Punta Arenas, the teams seemed eager to get underway. Now, a few days later, most have left the Union Glacier Camp behind, and are now making their way South along a variety of routes. Amongst the teams that have finally gotten underway are the Aussie duo of James Castrission and Justin Jones . The two men caught a lift out to Hercules Inlet, the location of
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from Climber's Blog
I am likely the last person to test shell garments. I admittedly don't use shell garmentsin my own climbing very often. More likely something I would use skiing on the lifts or in the back country or for intentionally stripped down qu...
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from Stevie Haston
Walter is the last Grivel to work with Iron, actually he is iron, and always has been made of iron. So I have known him for a long time but Walter goes back a few years before me and used to work with the forge and the hammer. We were talking the other day about my first pair of crampons, that I had in 1973 and the chances are that he made them. It was he or his mate, working side by side sometimes. Anyway when I said they were a very good pair very stiff, he claimed responsibility, Walter is like me in
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
Our hiding place just after dodging the rock fall Today felt like a hard day! We summited Mont Maudit at the top of the Frontier Ridge at 10am after setting off at 5am in the morning. I know the problem was that we weren't acclimatised at all, and we had climbed up to 4465m, and only arrived in Chamonix the day before yesterday. Anyway the route was fantastic! The climbing was very exposed but never too difficult. The were quite a few snowy ridges which felt a little spooky but generally fun to climb over.
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
Kick The Vik – Eco Freeride Contest 2011 – Swiss dominate contest – First time Freeride World Qualifier Maighel Valley, Switzerland – 22nd of March, 2011 – Last weekend 60 riders from seven nations competed at the fourth edition of Kick The Vik to challenge each other and go back to the roots of freeriding, with no technical resources. Swiss competitors dominate snowboard and ski category. José Carron (SUI) from Martigny is victorious in snowboard-, Mattias Menzli (SUI) in ski discipline. The
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from The Mountain Blogspot
With the main event out of the way and having recovered from the shock of Mahde's saggy Y fronts (see previous post) we had plenty of time to see a bit of Iran. We awoke in Larijan, lazy day, had a bit of a soak in the radon bath and had a tea in the town. A few of the locals became a little interested in what we'd been up to. Disbelief strewn across their faces that anyone could summit Damavand in winter. Only digital photos from the summit proving to them where we'd been quickly followed by vigorous ...
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from The Adventure Blog
While the 2011 North Pole season has been a bust for explorers heading to 90ºN from the Canadian side of the world, there will still be plenty of adventurous souls that will be visiting that fabled destination this year. Most will be making a "Last Degree" journey from the Russian side of the ice, and as ExWeb reports today, the airstrip at the Barneo Station is ready to start receiving visitors . Barneo is a temporary base that is built each season to facilitate travel to the Pole. It is constructed when
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from The Mountain Blogspot
I'm looking through the door in the basement of a hotel where I'm lying, with 4 other men, in a radon bath heated by the geothermal springs of Mt Damavand. Stood in the doorway is an overweight Iranian taxi driver in white baggy white Y fronts with a big rubber tube in his hand. Even after only a few days in Iran we were getting rapidly used to these contrasts but only a few hours ago it had been -25℃ and blowing about 40km/h as we clipped into our skis, 100m below the summit of Mt Damavand, the highest
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
It’s funny when you are feeling wasted how the little hole you’re in seems much deeper than it actually is. Since Freida arrived last week, my non-climbing life has been fantastic. The best it’s ever been, despite the adjustments and sleep deprivation. But the importance of my climbing life doesn’t just go away. It doesn’t change at all, in fact. I used to think it was psychologically dangerous to be dependent on my lifelong habits of the outdoors, exercise and training I do through my climbing.
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from The Adventure Blog
A week ago I posted what I thought would be my final Antarctica update for the season that has just passed. After all, the skiers had all reached the South Pole and the climbers were off of Vinson and the other peaks, and were waiting for a lift back to Punta Arenas. At the time, bad weather, not to mention civl unrest in Chile, were preventing the explorers from heading home, but it seemed like all of that would be resolved shortly. Turns out, a week later, their still stranded and Union Glacier and ...
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