Archive | March, 2014

2014 CWIF Streaming Live This Weekend

Posted March 14, 2014 at 12:56 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Catch live coverage of the 2014 Climbing Works International Festival this Sunday

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Video Friday – 3/14/2014

Posted March 14, 2014 at 5:50 am · Comments { 0 } ·

The highest rated videos of the past week

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→ More Details On Death Of Mark Hesse∞

Posted March 13, 2014 at 7:09 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Longtime climber and conservationist Mark Hesse died while climbing at the Boulder Rock Club this past January, but until this week it was unclear what actually caused his death.  While it is still not entirely clear what happened since nobody witnessed the accident, this article in the Boulder Camera seems to indicate this may have been another instance where a climber thought they were clipped into an auto belay system when in fact they were not:

The climber who was found in January after falling at the Boulder Rock Club died from blunt trauma, not a medical problem, officials said, and the popular climbing gym has since started using a new belay device to improve safety.

If that is what happened, this is the 2nd such incident to happen in the past 6 months.

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→ International Women’s Day∞

Posted March 12, 2014 at 8:26 am · Comments { 0 } ·

I enjoyed reading these interviews the American Alpine Club did with Emily Harrington, Paige Claassen, Melissa Arnot, Sibylle Hechetel, Janet Bergman Wilkinson and Jenn Fleming over the weekend to commemorate International Women’s Day.  I particularly liked Flemming’s take on the biggest misconception about women in climbing:

I think that the biggest misconception about women in climbing is that emotion is a weakness. Men and women climb, behave, and react along a spectrum of emotion; often the typically “female” reaction (e.g. tears or other overly emotional behavior) is perceived as a weakness. In actuality, we all cope with stress in a very individual manner, and there is no objective “best way” to do so.
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2014 Red Rock Rendezvous

Posted March 10, 2014 at 7:03 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Registration is open for the 2014 Red Rock Rendezvous

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Video Friday – 3/7/2014

Posted March 7, 2014 at 6:02 am · Comments { 0 } ·

The highest rated videos of the past week

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→ The Hidden Industry Of Hold Manufacturing∞

Posted March 6, 2014 at 1:14 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Interesting piece in Climbing Business Journal about the industry behind many of the holds we pull down on in gyms around the country:

For some hold companies, there seems to be no upside in disclosing that they no longer manufacture their holds in-house. The climbing industry has embraced the romantic image of the passionate climber shaping and pouring holds in their garage.
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But to succeed in today’s crowded marketplace, hold companies need professional production facilities that can fulfill modern expectations of quality, consistency, durability and efficiency, while providing a safe environment for the employees that are being exposed to urethane fumes and sanding particulates on a daily basis.

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