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Tim Kemple Explores When Being “Inspired” Goes Too Far

Posted July 19, 2011 at 7:47 am · Comments { 2 } ·

Tim Kemple explores when being “inspired” goes too far:

We’ve all heard the saying that ‘imitation is the sincerest sign of flattery’.  But a question that keeps coming more frequently than I’d like to admit: at what point does it go from being inspired to outright copying someone else’s work?
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DPM Interviews Nick Duttle

Posted July 18, 2011 at 2:02 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

DPM has a nice interview with Nick Duttle detailing his background and how health challenges haven’t stopped him from climbing 5.14 and V14.  There’s also this nice video of him climbing Trebuchet (5.14b) at the New River Gorge.

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Hard Multipitch In Switzerland By Nina Caprez

Posted July 14, 2011 at 7:17 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Nina Caprez reports here here and here that she did the first female ascent of the 240m route Silbergeier (difficulties up to 5.13d/5.14a) in Rätikon, Switzerland.  PlanetMountain interviews her about the ascent here.

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Urban Climber’s Adam Ondra Interview

Posted July 12, 2011 at 2:45 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Urban Climber has posted the big feature interview they did for a recent issue with Adam Ondra.  A lot of interesting tidbits throughout so definitely check this one out if you can’t get enough of the Czech Wunderkind.

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Possible 5.15a FA By Enzo Oddo

Posted July 12, 2011 at 8:05 am · Comments { 0 } ·

16 year-old Enzo Oddo blogs (in French) about his FA of La moustache qui fâche (5.15a) in Entraygues, France.  Oddo has now done 3 5.15s including this really famous one.

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Phil Schaal Climbing Well In Rocklands

Posted June 28, 2011 at 3:51 pm · Comments { 1 } ·

27Crags reports that Phil Schaal is down in South Africa where he’s managed to send many of the well-known classics including a flash of Green Mamba (V12) and a send of Fred Nicole’s Amandla (V14) among other problems.

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Alex Honnold On His Solo Of The Phoenix

Posted June 27, 2011 at 12:13 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

A few weeks back Alex Honnold, who was in the Valley for a shoot with 60 Minutes, soloed the iconic route The Phoenix (5.13a) in Yosemite, CA. Planetmountain caught up with both Honnold and first ascenionist Ray Jardine to get their thoughts.

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