As a follow-up to last week’s entry about Team America’s exploits in the British gritstone, here are are a series of videos first posted on UKClimbing.com. They feature Alex Honnold, Kevin Jorgeson and Matt Segal repeating several gritstone testpieces.
Climbers Archives: Matt Segal
Matt Segal Does 4th Ascent of Cobra Crack
Matt Segal has made the 4th ascent of one of the hardest traditionally protected crack climbs in the world, Cobra Crack (5.14) in Squamish, BC. It was first climbed by Sonnie Trotter a few years back with Nicolas Favresse and Ethan Pringle making quick repeats earlier this summer. Click here to see video of Trotter working the line. So who’s next on Beth Rodden’s Meltdown??
Australia Project DVD Review & Sale
Last night, Mrs. Narc and I had the pleasure of watching “The Australia Project”, a BSProductions film. It follows the adventures of Matt Segal, Rob D’Anastasio, Emily Harrington and Brian Solano as they tour around Australia in the summer of 2004. Guest appearances are also made by James Litz, Randy Puro and Brian Capps. Areas […]
News & Notes – 5/8/2008
Not much Earth shattering news going down lately but here are a few things to check out from the past few weeks: Joe Kinder prepared nicely for his 2 month trip to Spain with his recent FA of Golden Direct (5.14d) at the Cathedral in Utah. You can read more about it here, here and […]
News & Notes: Spring Break Edition
A few general bits of climbing news along with several links to check out what people were up to over Spring Break: Early last month, Dean Potter completed a 40 foot roof project he called Zen Garden near Moab, UT. He described it as “the hardest roof crack that I know of”. Besides the power […]
Matt Segal
After seeing the video at momentumvm.com that features Matt Segal doing the FA of Iron Monkey (5.14) on natural gear, I have to say that I was a bit intrigued. I contrasted that with a similar video on the same site of Cedar Wright doing the FA of a trad line at Indian Creek on […]
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