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Continue reading...27. May 2008
Less than 5 full months since fracturing his heel while attempting Mandala SDS (V14) in Bishop, and about 1 month since taking his first steps outside of his cast, Ethan Pringle sent a 5.14 this past weekend. He sent Beach Arete at Mickey’s Beach in California that apparently goes at 5.14a without using any chipped [...]
Continue reading...18. December 2007
Ethan Pringle has updated his Climbing.com blog with some more information on his recent exploits. He has given the Sharma project at Clark Mt. a working name of Jumbo Pumping Love which goes along with other routes on that wall (Jumbo Glass, Jumbo Pumping Hate). He also provides a quick recap of his recent repeat [...]
Continue reading...13. December 2007
Chris Sharma’s much hyped project at Clark Mountain has drawn the attention of two other American Rockstars in the form of Ethan Pringle and Dave Graham. They recently paid the line a visit, and Chad Greedy was there to capture it on film to find out exactly how it felt. You can now [...]
Continue reading...23. October 2007
Fresh off a 3.5 month trip to Europe that yielded an impressive ticklist of 1 5.14d (Realization), 1 5.14c, 5 5.14b's and 8 5.14a's (3 onsight or flash), Ethan Pringle has returned to the U.S.
Continue reading...21. September 2007
Here are a few videos to help pass your Friday: Check out the Dailies #4 video at MometumVM for footage of Ethan Pringle working out the moves of Es Pontas. Apparently a bit harder than he was expecting…and he is working the top crux on toprope. Ty Landman bouldering with a rope on Rumors of Glory [...]
Continue reading...18. September 2007
Yesterday I had a post entitled More Momentum that talked about the new updates to MomentumVM. They really weren’t kidding when they said that updates would be rapid and daily in nature. Today they have posted a video of Ethan Pringle on his repeat of Realization. Check it while it’s still up.
Continue reading...11. September 2007
Ethan Pringle has updated his Climbing.com pro blog. He has had a pretty big summer since his last update mainly due to the fact that he recently made the 5th ascent of Realization. He recounts the difficult circumstance he had to overcome in order to realize the send, and there are some great pictures of [...]
Continue reading...5. September 2007
Here is a bit of news for your Wednesday: Paul Robinson has made the 4th ascent of Ode to the Modern Man (V14) at Mt. Evans after Woods, Landman and Jorgenson. This would be Paul’s 25th problem V13 or harder in just the past 365 days. As noted yesterday, Ethan Pringle has repeated Realization and he [...]
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11. June 2008
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