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Ghetto Booty (5.14c/d) Sees First Repeat

Posted May 5, 2011 at 8:29 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Climbing.com reports that Mexico’s Mauricio Huerto has done the 2nd ascent of Ghetto Booty (5.14c/d) at Mt. Charleston some 11 years after it was first done by the legendary French climber Francois Legrand.
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Daniel Woods Video Interview

Posted May 4, 2011 at 6:26 am · Comments { 0 } ·

DPM has posted a video interview with Daniel Woods in which they discuss grades, FAs and Woods’ future plans with some snippets of him climbing in Magic Wood thrown in for good measure.

 

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Mason Earle Frees Hard Crack In Indian Creek

Posted May 3, 2011 at 7:08 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Via Sender Films come news that Mason Earle climbed what he considers to be his hardest desert crack yet when he was the first to free the 2nd pitch of Hot Pork Sunday in Indian Creek, UT.  After climbing the 5.12 first pitch, the 5.13+ 2nd pitch features 120 feet of vertical to slightly overhanging climbing culminating in a “wicked left leaning narrowing finger splitter”.  Earle fell 3 times on the final moves before “finally sketching [his] way to the top”.

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Nice Weekend For Alex Puccio In Magic Wood

Posted May 2, 2011 at 9:28 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Alex Puccio has been keeping busy in between World Cups events, sending Jack’s Broken Heart (V12) and The Right Hand Of Darkness (V11) in Magic Wood, Switzerland according to her 8a scorecard.

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PlanetMountain Follows Up With Ondra On Chilam Balam

Posted April 18, 2011 at 7:43 am · Comments { 0 } ·

PlanetMountain has an excellent interview with Adam Ondra discussing his quick repeat of Chilam Balam (5.15b) last week.

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2nd Ascent Of Pure Imagination (5.14d) By Adam Taylor

Posted April 11, 2011 at 1:26 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

DPM reports with an interview that Adam Taylor has done the 2nd ascent of Jonathan Siegrist’s Pure Imagination (5.14d) at the Red River Gorge in Kentucky.  This is Taylor’s 2nd 5.14d at the Red, the other being The Golden Ticket which is just down the wall from Pure Imagination and was first done by Taylor himself back in 2009.

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Mark Anderson Adds First 5.14 To Shelf Road

Posted April 6, 2011 at 2:49 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Mark Anderson recently added the first 5.
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14 to Colorado’s Shelf Road when he did the first ascent of Apogee Pending.  Check out this interview Anderson did with Splitter Choss to learn more about how Anderson juggles work and a family while still finding time to put up new routes.

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