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His Life In His Hands

Interesting profile of Alex Honnold in Men’s Fitness by Josh Dean that includes this tidbit on that building climb that was first announced last July:

And yet, the checks keep getting bigger. Honnold will receive the largest payday of his life—“by far”—if his next big mission comes to fruition. For the better part of a year, he and his friend Peter Mortimer, founder of Sender Films, have been plotting to have Honnold free-solo one of the world’s tallest buildings, Taiwan’s Taipei 101. But Honnold says such a bold, Vegas-style stunt isn’t about the money. It’s about the challenge, the fun (“Because it’s there!
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” he says), and hopefully he can raise the profile of the sport, which has precious few followers.
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Climbing is a highly specialized undertaking, after all, performed in the wilderness, and regular people—those without the right gear or binoculars—just don’t get it. Climbing a building, on the other hand, translates easily, argues Honnold. “Anyone who’s mainstream is like, ‘Skyscraper!’ ” he says. “They get it.”

Honnold scouted buildings all over the planet before settling on the world’s third tallest, which has 101 stories and is 1,474 feet tall, not counting the spire. Initially, National Geographic planned to televise the climb live in prime time (in partnership with ABC), and had even begun promoting it, then backed out—for now, at least.

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The Day I Did Not Send Joe Blau

Greg Kerzhner, writing about his efforts to send Joe Blau in Oliana, Spain:

A sad feeling comes.  Like this is my one chance to finish this thing, the one thing I really cared about for over a month of my life, but like I have no chance of actually doing it because I am fucked, too exhausted to go on.  I try to curb that feeling, take a deep breath, and finish business.
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Video Friday – 2/28/2014

The highest rated videos of the past week

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Charlie Porter

Great interview from Rock & Ice’s archives with legendary climber and alpinist Charlie Porter who passed away recently at the age of 63:

To an idealistic youth, who believe in honesty and – if you will – chivalry, my first impressions of many of my early idols were disappointing. More often than not, these people came across as a little too full of themselves, a little too competitive, and a little too quick to judge others while turning a blind eye to their own shortcomings. This, however, was not the case with Charlie. His character left a bigger impression on me than the sum of his climbing accomplishments.

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Fred Nicole: A Climbing Trip To Patagonia

Fred Nicole is still out there exploring new bouldering areas at the age of 43, this time in Patagonia:

The rock is beautiful and compact. In places it reminds me of a quartzite and in others more of a granite. Hard to say, but the forms and holds are beautiful and most of the lines are clear and pure.
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PataClimb has a few topos of these areas showing problems from V4 to V13.

Also, Fred Nicole is on Instagram if you’re into that sort of thing.

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3rd Ascent Of Gioia (V16) By Nalle Hukkataival

We often joke that Adam Ondra might be a robot based on his out-of-this-world ticklist, but I’m starting to think that if any of the top climbers is a robot it might be Nalle Hukkataival.buy Cymbalta online medstaff.englewoodhealth.org/wp-content/languages/new/ no prescription  Hukkataival injured his shoulder last year which forced him to slum it during his trip […]

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Woods, Wurm Win 2014 ABS Nationals Bouldering Championship

Final results from 2014 ABS Nationals

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