from UKClimbing.com News
Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall have been training hard in a dank cellar in Sheffield for several months and are now jetting off to America to find and climb some very wide cracks.
"The part of the trip I'm most apprehensive about is trying Lucille in Vedauwoo (it's such a hugely significant route) or realising that I've actually booked our flights for the wrong country and we're off to Yemen." commented Tom.
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from Upskill Climbing
Climbing is an incredibly complex sport. It's not like throwing a javelin. There are so many different factors that come into play and require training. Also, it's worth remembering that what one climber sees as improvement (or success) doesn't necessarily equal improvement for another. Someone might aspire towards pure gymnastic difficulty (grades) while someone else might value variety, or volume, or style, or the social aspect of climbing or just having fun. Usually it's a combination. In the case of
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
The soaring crack pitch of Mucklehouse Wall, E5 6a Since completing the Longhope Direct, our trip on Orkney has been light of step but heavy of leg. The team are all feeling a tad fatigued from great efforts of rigging, filming and eating a lot of cake to replace all the calories that you seem to burn here. For me it’s been a lovely slow release and realisation that the route is done and I can wake up a little more to the sights and sounds of Hoy without the blinkering weight of focus on the project that
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from Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton
Photos courtesy of Zac Poulton, James Morrison and Mark Scales Scottish winter kit So having just returned from my first Scottish winter, I thought now would be a good time to share the experience. It’s hard to know where to start, as packing my bags for the trip seems a lifetime ago. I guess a good place is in fact the packing. So having seen the kit list from AP, and confident I had most of the kit; I set about the challenge of packing all the kit into two bags. This went strangely to plan, and left me
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from Upskill Climbing
On the rest day it was decided that the other celebrated Rodellar pasttime should be engaged in - namely, canyoning. Best described as "a huge waterpark made by nature" , I'll let the pics do the talking. Canyoning in Rodellar comes highly recommended by the Upskill crash test dummies! And then all too soon the final day of climbing was upon us. And with it the realisation that, hell , there's a bunch of routes the guys did not want to leave Rodellar without bagging. It happens every camp. The final day is
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from Petzl Blog
Posted By Nina Caprez the 2010-08-19 Monday, 16th of august. Aiglun, 20 degrees, little wind....perfect,
let's go climbing in Ali Baba!
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from Steven Hope
On the face of it, climbing is like a nasty love hate relationship - It’s like an abusive partner you just can’t quit. It’s never pleasurable, you’re never satisfied and you’re constantly questioning why you do it. It’s one of the greatest things in my life, but it’s also one of the worst. It’s scary how much climbing is actually like an addiction - whatever it is you’re searching for, you’ll never find it. Completing that epic route won’t give you the feeling you’re looking for,
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from Online Climbing Coach
Peter commented on my last post: “What about the fact that some (many? most?) climbers are in this game for the sheer fun of it? It seems to me (from my bumbly-level vantage point) that chasing numbers is 99% drudgery, so many climbers naturally plateau at the point of maximum fun for least effort (however you define those two dimensions). Tangentially, a few climbers I've known who've played the numbers game inevitably reach a performance plateau no matter how hard they work, and in a couple of cases
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from Kev Shields Climbing
I received a call from a friend of many years the other day and they were going on about me being the only one of our old team of mates who isn't yet settled down into relationship, steady career etc and that I'm 31 and simply renting a room to allow me to go climbing. They also stated that I'm "a ruthless, self-centered and heartless b*****d". I guess sometimes I am but wouldn't have been able to sacrifice what I have without being these things. There are things I miss a lot like nights out with the lads.
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from James Pearson
It seems somewhat ironic that it was a return trip to England of all places that enabled my first real outdoor climbing experience in over a month. My move to Innsbruck was motivated by the idea of climbing every day on glorious, difficult routes and boulder problems, and up until October that was precisely what I had done. Then however, came something I hadn’t bargained for (don’t ask me how something so obvious could have slipped my mind ;), the snow! Despite my best efforts to persevere, eventually
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