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Tomaz Humar solos Annapurna South Face Markus Bock climbs a new 9a in Frankenjura West Face of Mt. Alberta in the Canadian Rockies has its first ascent. planetFear shop closes Scottish team makes first free ascent of difficult Jorasses mixed route.
Western Colorado Climbing posts a great little rant on aid climbing. His discussion of grading aid routes is quite humorous.
Finding the perfect climbing partner is one of those aspects of our sport that unfortunately only occurs by trial and error. Uncooped has some tips for us though in an article on how to choose the perfect climbing partner. My personal criteria: I have to be able to have and enjoy conversations on long road […]
The Carolina Climbers Coalition reports the Asheboro Boulderfield is open to climbing. Sean McColl maybe Canada’s best sport climber Ethan Pringle hits Yosemite Valley Patagonia retail stores are running an outdoor photo contest New Patagonia ice climbing route by Spanish team
ChossMonkey posts a climbing video of a trip to the Needles, California. There’s some nice footage of multi-pitch trad climbing on a variety of routes nicely put together.
The weather is finally turning and we saw some cooler temps this past weekend. It was a great opportunity to get the bouldering season underway at a local crag called Bozoo Rocks in southern West Virginia. At about only 45 minutes away, Bozoo has been the local crag for Virginia Tech students and Blacksburg residents […]
Jamie Emerson climbs Automator (V13) in Colorado (via Climbing Narcissist)
Brief climbing news and notes from the past week delivered every Wednesday: Petzl RocTrip recaps this past weekend at the Red Steph Davis free solos Diamond four times Wheel of Life (V16) repeated Potential 5.15a in Rumney, NH Climber dies at Poke-O-Moonshine in the Adirondacks, NY (via rockclimbing.com) Slovenian-American team completed a highly productive visit […]
Every once in a while I run across a non-climbing link that I think my blog readers will really enjoy. This video (via Jeremiah Owyang) shows base jumpers using specialized suits to enable them to almost fly and perform maneuvers while being arms length from the cliff line. Quite impressive.
Petzl has posted a recall for all its Petzl Charlet Sarken crampons. Recent customer experience has shown that the front points of SARKEN crampons are susceptible to premature wearout following heavy use. This means cracking of the metal forefoot near the front point(s), followed by possible breakage if usage continues. Petzl has stopped sales and […]