Climbing news: Rastaman Vibration Sit pictures, Midnight Express repeated, Steve House in Argentina, Steve Dieckhoff’s passing, Yosemite Bouldering, Ty Landman FAs and Pete Whittaker on the Hard Grit in Britain.
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Truth In Advertising?
Two recent La Sportiva Solutions ads have featured some fuzzy math when it comes to the grades attributed to the routes in the ads. One being a Timy Fairfield as showing him climbing The Web in Eldorado Canyon and the other being Daniel Woods climbing on Fifty Words For Pump at the Red River Gorge. Weigh in with your opinions on whether or not it is important for companies to be accurate in their advertisements.
Adam Ondra Climbs 3 5.14s in One Day
15 year old Adam Ondra continues to amaze. In the course of one day he sent Sanjski Par Extension (5.14d), Človek e jezi se (5.14c) and Popolni mrk (5.14b) all at Slovenia’s Misja Pec. This comes on the heels of a stretch of 2 weeks in February where he sent 7 routes graded 5.14c or […]
Dean Potter: Learning to Fly?
Thanks to the reader with the semi-inappropriate screen name that sent me a heads up on this article. Climbing has hit the front pages of The New York Times…sort of. Controversial climber, slack liner and BASE-jumper Dean Potter has a big article on his latest non-climbing adventure: a combination of highlining and Base-jumping. For those […]
Dave MacLeod Free Solos 5.14b in Spain
Dave MacLeod, best known for his difficult headpoints in Britain, recently free soloed Darwin Dixit (5.14b) in Margalef, Spain. Unless someone can think of something harder, this is probably the hardest free solo (not a highball boulder) ever done. I couldn’t find much information on the route as far as how tall it is or […]
Don’t Fall Mode
If there is one dream I have, it is to simultaneously hold down a respectable job and travel the world climbing. Mike Doyle is living my dream. He has spent the last couple of years on the road, working his IT job remotely and climbing at some of the best areas across the world. Recently […]
News & Notes – 3/10/2008
Just an update on Beth Rodden’s new 5.14 trad route Meltdown. Big Up Productions was there filming her work on the route for the upcoming Dosage 5. Big Up shares their first hand takes on what went down including nuggets like, “After about 10 sessions of working it on top-rope Tommy was never able to […]
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