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Year End Wrap-Ups From UKClimbing

Posted January 26, 2010 at 2:21 pm · Comments { 1 } ·

UKClimbing has a couple of nice year end review type articles that they posted recently to wrap up major news items from 2009.  One for sport climbing and one for bouldering.

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Alpinist Interviews Will Gadd After Endless Ascent

Posted January 19, 2010 at 6:51 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Alpinist Magazine caught up with Will Gadd after his marathon 24 hour session of ice climbing to learn what his inspirations were among other things.  Check it out here.

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Cool Spectre Video

Posted January 18, 2010 at 11:08 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Check out this excellent clip on DPM that Carlo Traversi put together of Kevin Jorgeson repeating Dave Graham’s Spectre (V13) at the Pollen Grains in Bishop, CA.

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Interview With The Man Behind Frontrangebouldering.com

Posted January 13, 2010 at 7:32 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Examiner.com has a nice interview up with longtime Frontrangebouldering.com webmaster Mike Brooks.

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Chris Sharma First Round Update From Spain

Posted January 9, 2010 at 11:29 am · Comments { 10 } ·

The Big Up blog has a nice update on Chris Sharma’s efforts to free the First Round First Minute project in Margalef.  Apparently he is getting frustrated after falling at least 15 times from the last move.
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 Venga Chris!

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A Not So Merry Christmas For Patxi Usobiaga

Posted January 5, 2010 at 8:34 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Via Kairn is this unfortunate news that Patxi Usobiaga added his name to the already long list of 2009 shoulder blow-ups.

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Vincent Pochon Keeps It Island

Posted January 4, 2010 at 11:24 am · Comments { 15 } ·

Accomplished Fontainebleau local Vincent Pochon recently repeated Dave Graham’s Font V15 The Island, adding what he felt was a more logical lower start from the right.  Kairn.com has an interview with Pochon (in French) in which he indicates that he had already done most of what would become Graham’s version of The Island back in 2007, but that he always felt it should start on the ground.  Climbing The Island via a likely V13 lower start from the left still looms…

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