from The Adventure Blog
With the fall Himalaya season finally winding down (There were a few late summits on Manaslu ), the adventure community will next turn its eyes to the Antarctic, where things are just now starting to ramp up. Over the course of the next few weeks, explorers, both solo and in teams, will descend on Punta Arenas, Chile, where they'll take care of all of their last minute preparations beforehopping a flight aboard an ALE plane to the frozen continent. Some of those explorers will be headed to the South Pole
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from The Adventure Blog
If you're a fan of adventure racing, or have always wondered what the sport is all about, then I have great news for you. The full version of the film The Last Wild Race is now available for streaming online, giving you the opportunity to watch this year's Patagonian Expedition Race in all of its glory. My friend Brian Leitten, who made the documentary, sent me the following information about how you can not only watch this great film, but win some swag in the process: The Last Wild Race , the documentary
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
Four of us are standing around, knee deep in the chilly northern Pacific Ocean, trying desperately to offset and numb the pain in our legs. We can barely feel the crushed rocks and shells under our feet. Salt is crusted on our faces and jerseys, we all look a dazed, squinting into the sun thats bathing the cove, as our bodies struggle to come back into balance. Were mumbling inanely, wrestling with our incoherent and tired thoughts, but happy to no longer be trapped in our internal monologue. We chatter
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from UKClimbing.com News
'Climbing with Maya' is a short 6 episode series following Bristol based climber Maya Holding.
The series captures the struggle, the joy and the just plain fun of getting out on the rock.
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from Ian Parnell Photography
It's been almost 2 months since I blogged. Shoddy, but I've had little to report but injuries. Fingers, knuckles, palms and most recently bloody knees. The knee has been particularly frustrating as I think it's a small tear on the cartilage in the same knee as my 2 previous key hole operations. I think I've got to the point where I'm going to have to give up running, or at least to the extent that I want to. I'd set my heart on a marathon next year and was thinking I was cautiously laying a good foundation
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from Mountains and Water
The interweb is abuzz recently with items that touch on the issues of cheating in climbing. Jamie Emerson started off with a post on steroids and then followed up with a discussion of Evil Backwards being altered and made easier than the V14 it started out as. Andrew Bisharat, in his post on "Climbers Who Cheat," asks the question 'Is dropping weight in order to succeed on a hard ascent “cheating”?' And so on... While I would not make the argument that cheating doesn't exist in climbing, I wonder if
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from Sean McColl
Another world cup has come and gone, and sadly, I seem to struggle in Vail. This year however, it was a different sort of struggle as I was actually painfully close to making finals. This is the story of how that all went down, and how close making finals, winning, and coming 16th can be [...]
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from The Adventure Blog
As predicted last week, the weather window on Everest this past weekend was a good one, an many climbers went up to the summit. There are some indications that as many as 100 people stood on top on Friday and a similar number may have gone up on Saturday as well. One of the first to top out on Saturday was Alan Arnette , whose expedition we've been following closely for the entire season. As regular readers of this blog know, Alan has been climbing Everest as the third leg of his 7 Summits for Alzheimer's
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from UKClimbing.com News
19 April, Chris Sharma made the first ascent of what was quite possibly the most famous sport climbing project in history: First round, first minute a steep line of bad pinches in the Laboratory sector at Margalef. To say it was a struggle would be an understatement. Chris fell on the last difficult move more than 50 times, and even managed to fall off once after all the hard climbing was done. Though Chris hasn't given the route a grade yet, I think it's safe to say it's his 10th...
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from UKClimbing.com News
Those of us who are following Dave MacLeod's blog know it has been a struggle, those of you who haven't can go there and read all about it, but now, finally, Dave has been able to make the first ascent of what he believes to be his most difficult boulder problem yet: Seven of nine, V14/8B+, at Glen Nevis.
In the end it came down to:
- A necessary change of mind set, inspired by Chris Sharma's comments about how he killed his "First round, first minute" related demons.
- A subtle refining...
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