https://allclimbing.com/andy-kirkpatrick-blogs-and-twitters-his-eiger-climb/ Everything climbing and the outdoors. Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:02:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://allclimbing.com/andy-kirkpatrick-blogs-and-twitters-his-eiger-climb/#comment-653 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:02:06 +0000 http://www.allclimbing.com/?p=586#comment-653 […] Andy Kirkpatrick Blogs and Twitters His Eiger Climb Posted on Monday, January 5th, 2009 in Media In what is truly a great example of using new media tools for expedition reporting, Andy Kirkpatrick is blogging and posting updates to Twitter on his solo ascent of the North Face of the Eiger.Unfortunately, as of yesterday, it looks like he is retreating:Starting this morning I put my solo belay device upside down. I didnâ??t even have the energy to sort my rack and in my mind the eiger stretched on to heaven. […]

]]> https://allclimbing.com/andy-kirkpatrick-blogs-and-twitters-his-eiger-climb/#comment-652 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:38:54 +0000 http://www.allclimbing.com/?p=586#comment-652 I was really hooked and check each time I was near the computer for updates. The fear always is though that it’s going to end up being a ‘snuff feed’ where some really fucks up and remotely blogs their final regrets, was a little worried about that … Think it comes of reading ‘White Spider’ too recently, the North Face scares the shit out of me after reading that!

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