Archive | July, 2009

Climbing Video: Chris Lindner Sport Climbing In Wyoming

Posted July 31, 2009 at 4:44 am · Comments { 11 } ·

Video of Chris Lindner climbing on the limestone crags around Lander, WY

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Chris Lindner

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Sinks Canyon, Wild Iris

What’s It Like To Climb The Nose In A Day?

Posted July 30, 2009 at 4:16 am · Comments { 7 } ·

There have been a lot of videos made about climbing the Nose on El Cap in a day, most notably Tommy Caldwell in Dosage IV and the insane speed record of Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama shown in the latest Masters Of Stone movie. However, watching the very best at any sport do something doesn’t really give us common folk a real sense for how difficult something like climbing El Cap in a day can be.

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Ben Ingman, Travis Melin

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Yosemite

Cool Tim Kemple Interview

Posted July 30, 2009 at 4:08 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Photographer Tim Kemple recently did a nice interview with Ascartel.com (Via FStopgear on Twitter)

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Tim Kemple

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Updates From South Africa

Posted July 29, 2009 at 4:33 am · Comments { 2 } · Photo: Justin Alarcon

I mentioned last week how it has been a somewhat slow summer for climbing news. Part of this can be attributed to the lack of action taking place here in the States, but another reason is that one of the more popular international summer climbing destinations in the world has a sub par connection to the internet. I’m of course talking about the Rocklands of South Africa.

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Rocklands

Video Of 2 Recent Chris Schulte Boulder Canyon FAs

Posted July 28, 2009 at 4:15 am · Comments { 4 } ·

An area like Boulder Canyon outside Boulder, CO is the type of climbing area you would think holds zero first ascent potential given its proximity to so many climbers, but that was not the case earlier this spring when Chris Schulte opened two new boulders on the granite blocs found there

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Chris Schulte

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Boulder Canyon

Climbing Video: Ethan Pringle Iron Resolution (V13) 2nd Ascent

Posted July 27, 2009 at 4:39 am · Comments { 9 } ·

Back in 2003, a strange thing happened in Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. A massive rainstorm came through that caused a boulder to fall over from its perch between two other walls. The happenstance of this boulder falling over revealed the potential for a proud and difficult new boulder problem to be climbed.

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