from The Adventure Blog
The mountaineering film Cold has been getting a lot of positive buzz lately, picking up awards at various festivals and earning climber/filmmaker Cory Richards recognition as one of Nat Geo's Adventurers of the Year . The film follows Richards, along with climbers Simone Moro and Dennis Urubko, as they make the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum II, an 8035 meter (26,362 ft) peak located in Pakistan, hence the title "Cold." Now, the film is set to make its online debut thanks to Outside Magazine . Tomorrow
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from Upskill Climbing
This is the end my friends. The final trip report from Upskill 2011 Kalymnos climbing camps. This'll be a good-un though, so read on for your last little hit of Kalymnos for the year. ODYSSEY A bit of a fave, you've probably gathered by now. Day nine of climbing and there were some tired bodies! But only two days of climbing left, so time to pull out all the stops and give it heaps! Besides, it had to be Odyssey, as Bo refused to leave the island without Atena 6b+ in her satchel. We headed up to the left
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from The Adventure Blog
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Mt. Everest has always captivated the public's attention and spurred our sense of adventure. The mountain isn't just the tallest peak on the planet, it is also a physical manifestation of our need to explore and add a little danger and excitement to our lives. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis, helps to hammer home this point by tracing the early history of the mountain, how it came to rise to prominence in the ...
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from High Places
Hello Steph, im Nicola and im exited to writ to you! First one: I apologize for my bad english. You are amazing!! Really!! Im a climber (not even comparable to you) and im a paraglider I look again and again your videos Wow!!! Also, i read your book (in Italy the title is: Tra vento [...]
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from The Adventure Blog
Yesterday was a great day in the Tour de France . Today was even better. There are certain stages that always deliver on the promise of high drama and theatrics in Le Tour, and Alpe d'Huez is right up there with the best of them. With its 21 iconic switchbacks, and nearly 15km (9.3 miles) of climbing, often at grades in excess of 10%, the mountain has dashed many riders hopes of winning the race. This year was no exception, delivering unprecedented suffering to the Peloton. Today's stage was a short one,
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from Videoclimb.com, The best climbing videos on the net
Here is a little compilation of some of the last things we shot this season. (Spenser Tang-Smith and Byronian. Shooting, Sound, Titles, and Color by Byronian.)
Author: Byron Wolter
Climber: Spenser Tang-Smith, Will Wolcott, Trevor Bloom, and Aaron Kutzer.
Location: Chamonix
Language: fr
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from Rock Climbing UK
It was a good day for Dmitry Sharafutdinov, sending all problems in just 5 attempts and going on to win the title of World Boulder Champion for the second time (the first was Aviles in 2007). Adam Ondra from the Czech Republic took home silver, separated from Sharafutdinov by just 3 extra attempts. The second [...] Dmitry Sharafutdinov Becomes the New IFC World Boulder Champion is a post from: Rock Climbing UK , an online UK climbing magazine, written BY UK climbers FOR UK climbers. If you liked this ...
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from gravsports
First off, paragliding can be a "reasonable" activity. I'd let my kids fly tandem with most any commercial operation in North America. But there are some problems lately with the competition scene, which is like comparing F1 to driving to the grocery store. The following commentary is opinion and ranting, but I'm thinking about it a lot so here goes: The 2011 Paragliding World Championships were cancelled a few days ago. I don't think that's ever happened before. The FAI (uber-governing body of air sports
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from The Adventure Blog
Looking for something to do this weekend? Feel like getting in a good workout? Then maybe you should enter the Western States 100 , one of the toughest trail runs in all of North America. The 38th edition of the race will gets underway on Saturday in Squaw Valley, California, where runners will take their mark at 5 AM for what promises to be another great run through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The 100 mile course begins with a long, slow climb out of Squaw Valley, up to Emigrant Pass. Along the way, the
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from The Alpinist - newswire
On May 26, Mark Allen and Graham Zimmerman established a new route in the northwest fork of the Lacuna Glacier on the southern ridgeline of Mt. Foraker. Their climb, "To the Center" ( AK 4 AI2, 4500'), runs along a couloir for the majority of its 4,500 feet, then strikes a thin and precarious southeast ridgeline. There, the two climbed to the route's 12,214-foot pinnacle in five hours and forty-five minutes. This ridgeline also links two of their previous attempts at the ridge's high point, and they said
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