Archive | October, 2010

Possible V13 At Rock Creek By Charlie Barrett

The Bishop Bouldering Blog reports that Charlie Barrett established a sit start to Compression Session (V9) at Rock Creek near Bishop, CA to yield a potential V13 called Lessons.  Barrett then moved over to Yosemite where he repeated Matt Wilder’s stunning V12 Shadow Warrior which gives me an excuse to link to this video on DPM featuring multiple repeats of said problem.

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Sailing, Jamming And Climbing On The West Coast Of Greenland

Sailing, Jamming And Climbing On The West Coast Of Greenland

Nicolas Favresee, Sean Villanueva, Olivier Favresee and Ben Ditto spent their summer sailing up and down the west coast of Greenland climbing some amazing new big walls

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Potential V15 In Magic Wood By Chris Webb Parsons

Potential V15 In Magic Wood By Chris Webb Parsons

Americans aren’t the only ones getting things done on the boulders of Switzerland, Australia’s Chris Webb Parsons has been cleaning up several area classics and he recently established a potential V15 in Magic Wood

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The Season Begins For Tommy Caldwell & Kevin Jorgeson On El Cap

The Season Begins For Tommy Caldwell & Kevin Jorgeson On El Cap

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are back in Yosemite for the Fall season to have another go at their well documented project on El Capitan’s Dawn Wall

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Climbing Video:  Adam Ondra 5.15a FA In Céüse

Climbing Video: Adam Ondra 5.15a FA In Céüse

A nice profile piece on Adam Ondra featuring the FA of a potential 5.15a in Céüse, France

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Adam Ondra Visits Madagascar

Adam Ondra Visits Madagascar

Adam Ondra (not pictured) took a break from school at the end of last month to go to Madagascar of all places and, as usual, he did not leave empty-handed.

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Potential 5.14c By Joe Kinder In Rifle

Rock & Ice reports that Joe Kinder did the FA of Waka Flocka Flame at Rifle, CO’s Project Wall.  This line links up Waka Flocka (a 5.14b Kinder did the FA of in August) and Living The Dream (the 5.14a extension to Living In Fear) via a V7 boulder problem to yield a potential 5.14c or d according to Kinder’s scorecard.  More on Kinder’s website.

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