Climbing phenom Ashima Hiraishi hits the front page of the New York Times’ Sports Section with an accompanying video featuring her on Crown Of Aragorn (V13).
News & Notes – 5/9/2012
There’s so much happening these days in the world of climbing that even I’m having a hard time keeping up…

Speaking Of Youth…
I’ve had multiple non-climbing friends e-mail me links to stories about this video of a 22-month-old bouldering on a home woodie. The stories are hardly worth linking to, but if the 500,000 views the Youtube version of the video has gotten are any indication, this thing has gone viral in a way that things like actual rock climbing can’t and probably never will.
Mt. Everest, speed climbing, free soloing and now toddlers climbing, does that pretty much cover the extent of the general public’s knowledge of rock climbing?
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2012 ABS 13 Youth Championship Highlights
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2011 World Youth Championships Results
Results from the World Youth Championships of sport climbing held August 25-28, 2011 in Imst, Austria
- Alex David Johnson, Alex Fritz, Andrew Kim, Audrey Hsu, Augy Cohn, Ben Isaac Tresco, Bernhard Röck, Brendan Mitchell, Callie Walter, Dana Riddle, Danny Aleksovski, Delaney Miller, Dmitry Fakiryanov, Domen Skofic, Dominic LaBarge, Edward Hamer, Francesca Metcalf, Ievgeniia Kazbekova, Jacquelyn Wu, Jesse Youngwerth, Jessica Pilz, Johanna Ernst, Joseph Gifford, Josh Levin, Julia Serriere, Jure Raztresen, Katie Lamb, Keiichiro Korenaga, Kyle Francis, Laurel Todd, Lila Neahring, Loic Timmermans, Magdalena Röck, Michaela Kiersch, Momoka Oda, Naoki Shimatani, Nicholas Bradley, Salomé Romain, Sasha DiGiulian, Sierra Carroll, Solomon Barth, Stefano Ghisolfi, Tina Johnsen Hafsaas
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2011 Youth World Championships
Semi-finals and Finals of the 2011 Youth World Championships (of sport climbing) take place tomorrow (Saturday, August 26th) in Imst, Austria. Watch live beginning at 10:00 AM local time (4:00 AM EST) as some of America’s best young climbers test their skills on youth climbing’s biggest stage.
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News & Notes – 3/29/2010
News & Notes about an 8 year-old sending V10, a new climbing gym, route development and much more…
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Will: Dave is my hero. He should probably be your hero t...
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Peter: I think it's cool to hear about not just the very...
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Jimmy: Awesome! Its funny how they try to transition from...
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D$: When it's done by someone this sexy it is....
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Ethan Pringle On Jumbo Love
May 18, 2012
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Campus Training With Flannery Shay-Nemirow
May 18, 2012
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Video Friday – 5/18/2012
May 18, 2012
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Trailer: DAVE
May 17, 2012
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Mon Pote Assis (5.14a) By Heather Robinson
May 17, 2012
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When In Doubt Pack It Out
May 16, 2012
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Official Petzl RocTrip China 2011 Movie
May 16, 2012
News & Notes
Ethan Pringle On Jumbo Love
Ethan Pringle is back at Mt. Clark, home to that one route first done by that one guy:
Projecting a route like this requires all of your attention, and having to devote all of your attention to a route like this can get really tiring really fast. At some point, you just want to get it over with. Of course, afterward you feel a mix of relief and loss. Relief that you’re done and the epic is over, and loss that this magnificent line doesn’t require your presence anymore. But for me, I think I’ll have to take a nice long break from serious route projects for a little while after this. Like Randy Levitt said, “It’s like a limestone El Cap.” Obviously, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it does sort of convey the amount of work required to complete a project of this caliber.
Pringle is no stranger to Jumbo Love, having tried it even before its FA back in 2008. You can see some footage of his attempts here.
When In Doubt Pack It Out
I don’t know about you, but I always try my best to climb close to an actual bathroom. In case you don’t, the Access Fund has a nice refresher on what to do when nature calls.
Gravelle Repeats Echale (V14)
I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that with training like this that Canadian Yves Gravelle was able to climb his first V14 in Daniel Woods’ Echale in Clear Creek Canyon according to his 8a scorecard.





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