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Progression Excerpt: Kevin Jorgeson Climbing On Grit

17. Feb, 2010 13 Comments

Progression Excerpt: Kevin Jorgeson Climbing On Grit

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Big Up Productions, Progression

Simba’s Pride Video From Hotaches

17. Feb, 2009 2 Comments

Hotaches Productions has posted a cool clip of Ben Cossey highball bouldering the route/boulder Simba’s Pride (E8 6b).

Asides

Video: George Ullrich Gaia (E8 6c) Flash Attempt

22. Dec, 2008 12 Comments

Check out this incredible video of Brit George Ullrich attempting to flash Gaia.

Traditional Climbing, Videos

Team America Gritstone Sending Videos

04. Dec, 2008 32 Comments

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.

Traditional Climbing, Videos

America! F**k Yeah!

26. Nov, 2008 3 Comments

Team America continues to leave their mark on British Gritsone…

Climbing News

Kevin Jorgeson Decks From And Then Sends Gaia (E8), Solos Meshuga (E9)

20. Nov, 2008 1 Comment

An interesting bit of news was just posted over at MomentumVM. Kevin Jorgeson, who has been climbing on the Gritstone of England for the past several weeks, was out climbing recently at the Black Rocks area in Derbyshire. Black Rocks is home to two very famous grit routes in Gaia (E8 6b) and Meshuga (E9 [...]

Traditional Climbing

News & Notes – 10/29/2008

29. Oct, 2008 1 Comment

News from Kevin Jorgeson, James Webb, Daniel Woods and Justin Alarcon. Notes on DPM, RRG Accidents and more.

Climbing Magazines, Climbing News, News & Notes

Dead Point Magazine

Kevin Jorgeson Takes His Bold Skills Overseas

26. Oct, 2008 2 Comments

Kevin Jorgeson is best known here in the U.S. for blurring the line between highball bouldering and outright soloing. His notable highball boulder ascents include The Duel (V10 FA) in Hueco Tanks, The Beautiful and Damned (V13 FA) and Flight Of The Bumblebee (V9 FA) in Bishop. In addition to these bold boulders, ropeless ascents [...]

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New 5.14c From Joe Kinder In Southern Utah

Joe Kinder bolted and sent Flight Of The Conchords in southern Utah’s Hurricave to yield a new 5.14c. Check his blog and this interview with DPM for more info.

2010 Hueco Rock Rodeo Photo Gallery

Merrick Ales has an excellent gallery of photos from the 2010 Hueco Rock Rodeo up on his website that includes plenty of shots of comp winners Daniel Woods and Alex Puccio. There’s also a short video from the comp up at DPM.

Interviewed By SplitterChoss.com

In the event that you can’t get your full ClimbingNarc fix from this site alone I did an interview with SplitterChoss.com that you can check out here.

Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson, Alex Johnson Sign With Nicros

Hold maker Nicros has signed Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson and Alex Johnson to their team to help shape holds and develop products for the 2011 Nicros line-up. Word on the street is that Daniel and Paul will be visiting Minnesota soon to do work both in the shop and out on the boulders. Stay tuned.