from The Alpinist - newswire
On a climbing trip that was partially planned on Facebook, Luis "Lucho" Rivera and Cedar Wright put up two new routes on the Dragon's Horns on Malaysia's Tioman Island: Tanoshi Buttress (5.10R/X, 270m) marks the first recorded ascent of the Horns' north tower, and Batu Naga (5.12R 300m) climbs "one of the proudest looking lines on the entire formation" up a prominent buttress on the south tower. Wright heard about the formation from Scotty Nelson, who did the first ascent of the south tower in 1999 and ...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Just over a decade ago, the jungle surrounding the Dragon's Horns on the island of Tioman, Malaysia, was too thick to even think about attempting a climb on the formation. Creating a path through the dense forest requires an hour of hacking with a machete for five-minutes' worth of trail. With this arduous approach plus heat, insects and rainstorms, the granite summit of Dragon's Horns is not easily attainable. The south tower of the formation was first climbed by an English team in 2000, after several ...
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from The Mountain World
I've just been editing a story for the American Alpine Journal about the first ascent of the north face of Chang Himal in Nepal, by British climber Andy Houseman. Andy said his climb, with fellow Brit Nick Bullock, was inspired in part by an article called "Unclimbed," published in 2003 in Alpinist 4 , in which various writers identified nine great unfulfilled challenges in the alpine world. Which, in turn, inspired me to dig up the article and see how climbers have done over the last six and a half years.
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
A story by Silvia Vidal Photos by Olivier Favresse, Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villanueva and Stephane Hanssens. Usually I write about a climbing. This time I'm writing about the reasons that brought me to climb a not planned route and with some other climbing partners as first expected, on Mount Asgard (Baffin Island, Canada). I was planning a summer expedition to Baffin Island with a friend of mine (Luis Gomez, Madrid-Spain). We started to prepare things early in the season trying to have things under ...
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
By: Jon Walsh Chris Brazeau and I spent four weeks this summer in Auyittuq National Park, Baffin Island, climbing the granite walls and ridges of the Weasel Valley. We left home with some inspiring photos, vague beta, and a lot of excitement. In the small fishing village of Pangnirtung, we met our our Belgian friends Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villeneauva, Olivier Favresse, and Steffan Husson, as well as Silvia Vidal of Catalonia, and together, we hired a boat to take us to the trail head at the end of the ...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Steve Beckwith and Matt Traver of Wales have climbed a new route on the Dragon's Horns, twin towers that erupt from dense jungle on the Malaysian Island of Tioman in the South China Sea. According to local legend, the Dragon's Horns (aka Bukit Nekek Semekut) are fabled to be a Chinese princess who, flying to her prince, took a luxurious rest in the sea and transformed into these spires of rock. Though long eyed by climbers, for many years the towers only held one route, Waking Dream (5.9 A2, Nelson-Tomlin,
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