News & Notes - 2/27/2009

The past couple of weeks have been pretty above average when it comes to news. There have been a high number of hard sends and noteworthy achivements:

Hotaches Productions has posted a cool clip of Ben Cossey highball bouldering the route/boulder Simba’s Pride (E8 6b).
Climbing Magazine has a good interview with Australia’s Chris Webb Parsons on their website.
Chuck Fryberger’s new bouldering flick Pure premiered last Friday night in Boulder and the reviews are in. Here is a review from AllClimbing and here is one from BoulderDiaries.
James Webb repeated two Dave Graham V13’s this weekend in Arkansas, suggesting a possible downgrade to V12 for both. The problems in question are Chunk Up The Deuce and Loved By Few Hated By Many (2nd ascent?). Webb also did 4 V11’s.
American Chris Schulte has climbed his first V14 during his current trip to Fontainebleau, Gecko Assis. You can read a recent interview with Schulte at Mountains and Water, and I highly recommend checking out his website as well.
On the heels of his first V14 comes Chris Schulte's second V14 Kheops Assis. Originally graded V15, this line has had a suggested downgrade from 3 repeaters now (Schulte, Graham, Landman).
On the still not-functioning-in-the-U.S. MoonBlog comes apparent word that Ty Landman has repeated Kheops Assis (V14) in Fontainbleau. (Via TheLowDown)
Jacinda Hunter has made an impressive FFA of Dave Graham’s Breaking The Law (5.14b) at Black and Tan, UT. Check out the video at MVM.
Current Climbing Magazine coverboy Kevin Jorgeson has started himself a proper blog. Check it out at http://kjorgeson.blogspot.com/.
Patagonia has updated their interactive Tin Shed website with a batch of new stories and videos. Check their blog for the list of updates.