from Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton
Now, with only 3 days to go until I leave for Nepal; and with everything such as packing, acquiring medicine, filling out visa forms and even cleaning my boots still dirty from Lenin, still to do, I used some intuition and decided to utilise some precious time writing another truly outstanding blog. I then scrapped that idea and wrote the one below instead. Since the expedition to Lenin, fortunately I have managed to regroup, and now partly understand the reasons why the expedition wasn’t as successful
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from V12 Outdoor - Climbing news
Pete Harrison has extended the Diamond handline all the way to the Gemstone ramp so that it allows longer access/egress.
Access to the crag is now possible from 2 hours after high tide (45 mins extra each side, hour and a half extra in total compared to the previous access) and the access/egress point is visible [...]
published: 8 months ago
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from Petzl Blog
Posted By Steve Mc Clure the 2011-07-26 The first time I set eyes on Kjerag I knew I wanted to climb it. Perhaps the worlds most famous BASE jumping cliff, this 1000m vertical wall rising straight out from the sea was just asking to be climbed. In most cases dreams like this remain dreams, with logistics, finances and life in general standing firmly in the way, but this time I had my hand held. The Norwegians are such a friendly bunch, and on-it with their organising. As soon as I said I was keen all I
published: 10 months ago
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from Ethan Pringle
Here are screen grabs from just a few of the problems weve shot. Ill try to edit/compress a little teaser before we leave and before Rob does the main edit. Movie should be almost 30 mins long with all the problems weve shot. Il Était une Fois Golden Virginia and Ray of Light (I did [...]
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from James Pearson
Sun, sea, speed boats and secret beaches – my last weekend in Sardinia. 2am was not a happy hour for waking up, and was even less happy when I walked out of my door to pouring rain and a flat battery in my car. With my brain still cloudy from sleep, I struggled to think how I would fix this problem and still catch my soon to depart flight, from Munich, two hours drive away. The garage was closed, I had no jump leads, and the airport shuttle had already left... things were not looking good. The €300 ...
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from Petzl Blog
Posted By Steve Mc Clure the 2011-06-07 Or the God Of all Traverses? Im not the fittest of climbers, but its not often that I turn up at a cliff and only manage one route before crawling off exhausted! But the mega traverse at Craig-y-Longridge is way longer than the average route! Craig-y-Longridge is one of those places that as a climber you just have to visit. Maybe not the most amazing cliff, but its got history and a share of fame. It was almost lost recently before the good old BMC bought it
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from UKClimbing.com News
Andy Gullsten, the Finnish 19 year old that we seen more and more in the news lately, is in Rocklands, South Africa.
After a few days of getting used to the rock, by flashing the odd 8A and making quick work of others, he felt it was about time he put his steel fingers on something proper hard.
He decided to try Madiba, an 8B+ roof first climbed by Fred Nicole on Nelson Mandela's birthday back in 2003.
15 minutes later he had done it, figuring 8A+ was probably more...
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from Stevie Haston
Laurence walking an 8a! When I was young, I was brought up largely by women. They were tough, small and of a mixture, artistically and sensibilities wise. Although men were generally absent I didn’t need their so called male influence, as my aunties mother and grandmother had adequate amounts of all those so called male attributes like courage and strength and testosterone. My teachers were women and they were clever too boot, in short I was always impressed by women in general, plus and it was a big ...
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from Stevie Haston
The Malta marathon was great as I expected, but had a couple of tricks up its sleeve. Most north Euros are a bit down in the winter, and need a bit of sun and warmth, so why not do the Malta Marathon? The marathon is on a week end in February, and is only a few hours from certain lucky cities in northern Europe. It’s a good time for jaded runners from Britain, or wherever, to hop on a cheap plane and have a weekend in more clement weather. So it was a bit of a surprise to wake up at 6am on race day with
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from UKClimbing.com News
Hamish Potokar, 14, has climbed the classic hard gritstone problem Brad Pitt (Font 7C+).
"Hamish has been climbing since he could walk pretty much as his dad is a climber..."
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