from Kevin Jorgeson
This past weekend, I was at Mesa Rim Climbing and Fitness Center in San Diego, CA for the PCI Clinic with Daniel Woods, Ethan Pringle and Angie Payne. What a roster! The participants were PSYCHED and the community showed tremendous support and energy. Daniel, Angie and Ethan did an amazing job instructing, once again demonstrating that the world's best climbers can also be world class instructors. "I was really impressed with all the instructors ability to articulate advanced forms of movement, complex ...
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from The Adventure Blog
In the surfing world, Tahiti's Teahupoos (pronounced cho-po) are amongst the most legendary and coveted waves on the planet. This past August, they reached epic sizes while the Billabong Pro surfers were on hand, and the results can be seen in the video below. The waves on display are immense walls of water that look as deadly as they are beautiful. The video was shot by filmmaker Chris Bryan , who captured the dramatic action perfectly. Amazing stuff! BIGGEST TEAHUPOO EVER, SHOT ON THE PHANTOM CAMERA. ...
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
Keywords:
Quvnerit,
5.10b,
6a+,
Quvnerit Island,
greenland,
island,
pitches,
routes,
Nanortalik,
pitches),1
South Greenland 2011, Swiss-Bavarian Climbing Expedition to Quvnerit Island The South of Greenland offers an incredible wealth of technical rock climbing on big granite faces, some of them directly over the ocean. Tasermiut Fjord has seen most of the climbing activity of the last decades, but some climbers have ventured further south to climb on the more remote islands and fjords around the Inuit settlement of Aappilattoq. Huge routes have gone up in the Torssukatak Fjord, on Pamiagdluk Island and on other
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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 Stevie Haston
Man this week I’ve really regretted taking up running again. Why? Well it’s hard that’s why. Snowboarding in powder, I just turn my head, accept some fear and my body turns, and fast, fast enough to create an interesting cocktail of chemicals in my body. Climbing is the same, I was born to climb, and I’ve created routes that are works of art, they feed my need to feel proud of making something that give people pleasure. So here we are today, my thighs are full of lactic porridge, my hip girdle is
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from James Pearson
Sun, sea, speed boats and secret beaches – my last weekend in Sardinia. 2am was not a happy hour for waking up, and was even less happy when I walked out of my door to pouring rain and a flat battery in my car. With my brain still cloudy from sleep, I struggled to think how I would fix this problem and still catch my soon to depart flight, from Munich, two hours drive away. The garage was closed, I had no jump leads, and the airport shuttle had already left... things were not looking good. The €300 ...
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from The Adventure Blog
National Geographic has announced the 2011 list of Emerging Explorers , a distinction they bestow upon young adventurers, scientists, photographers, and storytellers who are already making a significant contribution to their field, even at a particularly young age or early stages of their profession. These are men and women who are on the cutting edge of science and exploration, with the potential to do great things. In support of these individuals, Nat Geo awards them a $10,000 grant to continue pursuing
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from Climber's Blog
This Friday, Ill be at the Billabong XXL big wave awards in Anaheim, California, and strangely enough Billabong hasnt ask me to vote in any of the categories. Come to think of it, they havent really asked for my opinion on, well, anything. Strange, huh?
Well, my favorite award isnt the biggest wave or the biggest [...]
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from James Pearson
Keith had previously revelled about his experience on an E5 called “Out of my Mind”, that last year he had tried and backed off from after getting out of his mind with fear and pump. The tide was in, “Ghost Train” looked even wetter than before, and so warm up routes were in short supply – time to get a little out there... The first challenge of the day was to access the belay stance, involving a timed dash across a wave washed platform. At times the waves were mellow, barely covering your feet,
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from Climber's Blog
Mostly when you see Midwestern surfing, the waves are junk. The surfing is desperate. The stoke is high, but its a making lemonade kind of stoke. Not with this session, though. Big wave rider Jamie Sterling shows up on Lake Supe...
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