from Kev Shields Climbing
On Saturday morning I eventually had surgery on my mashed ankle. The surgeon I ended up getting decided that full fusion was overkill for the time being so they removed the broken floating shards etc which means I'm looking at roughly 2 weeks in a cast and not 2 months.It also means I'll be back to climbing quicker. It means more surgery and pain in the future but that's the futures problem. Missing days out at the crag and the shared banter and risk- Pic-Dorota Bankowska In the time I've had off from ...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Kyle Dempster and Hayden Kennedy recently made the first ascent of Pakistan's Hassan Peak (6300m). Hassan Peak is located in Pakistan's Charakusa Valley just north of K6. The pair climbed the peak via it's previously attempted west face overcoming difficulties of WI5, M5 on their two day ascent. Steve Swenson, Hans Mitterer and Raphael Slawinski attempted Hassan Peak in 2005, but retreated from dangerous conditions 300 meters below the summit. Dempster told Alpinist.com that Hassan Peak as seen from base
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from Petzl Blog
Posted By Liv Sansoz the 2011-07-17 Hard to believe but I twisted my ankle on a broken stairs. I had a big pain on my foot but I thought it was nothing too serious. I kept walking and driving for more than an hour and then got back home. I iced all day long and stayed quiet. But my foot kept blowing up and I could not walk anymore. After more than three hours waiting at the emergency services, they found that I broke a little piece of bone. Not big enough for a surgery but big enough to have a cast and ...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Y esterday, the Executive Director of The American Alpine Club, Phil Powers, was seriously injured in a climbing fall. Powers, who fell while climbing in Colorado's Clear Creek Canyon, was airlifted to Denver following the accident. He underwent surgery and is presently listed as being in stable condition. Please check The American Alpine Club's website for updates.
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from Climb with kids
Lauren in her boot Things I learned from Saturday's Top Rope/Lead Competition at PRG. 1. Tammy Opalka from Practical Climbing is a rock star. She ended up placing second in the Advanced Women's division. Tammy and I formally met for the first time on Saturday. I reviewed her fun chalk bags a few posts back but we hadn't actually met before. Tammy and some of the women she climbs with seem to have taken a page right out of ChicksClimbing as they are outdoor female climbers who seem to climb primarily with
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from DreamInVertical
The shoulder is an often overlooked but very important part of a climber’s anatomy. Many people will focus on finger or forearm strength and forget about this crucial joint. Others are all too aware of their shoulders, having suffered injures, dislocations and even surgery. Taking care of your shoulders will help you avoid sitting on [...]
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from Online Climbing Coach
I’ve been asked a lot about eccentrics which are a really big part of successful rehab from tendonosis, in climbers that’s usually Golfer’s or Tennis elbow. What to they do? How do they work to heal the tendon? There are no definitive answers, in fact, right now the various teams around the western world researching such things are arguing more about this subject now than they were a few years ago. Here is a little discourse on where things are right now. The protocol of eccentric wrist curls was ...
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
The consultant reckons I have an internal oblique tear but the damage is in the muscle belly or MT junction, so I may yet be spared surgery. Good news, although I’m not 100% convinced he’s right. For now at least it’s an all clear to try some winter climbing and see how I get on. Meanwhile I still feel good in training, although cabin fever is reaching breaking point. It’s amazing how daily exposure to the outdoors and empty spaces becomes so hardwired it drives you quite nuts in even the most ...
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from Ian Parnell Photography
It's often too easy to regret the day to day. Your dream routes, adventures or experiences fading ever further away behind a growing to do list. Whether it's pressure from work, family or injuries, life's little speed bumps can seem mountain-like obstacles. Burdened with a year full of all three, I've been guilty recently of feeling a bit too sorry for myself. I had a wake up call a few weeks ago when I heard that Northumberland legend Andy Earl had collapsed with a brain hemorrhage and was being kept in
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
Pau was born in Spain between the Costa Brava and the Pyrenees, Catalunya in 1979. Since childhood his parents took him to the mountains and began climbing on ice when he was 20 years old. When he was 22 years, after an industrial accident, he had 2 surgeries on his left knee and the doctors said that he would not be able to continue climbing. That was the first day Pau really started to climb! Because of the surgeries Pau currently only ice climbs and mountaineers. He’s always in search of the intense
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