The latest edition of Climbing magazine devoted its cover and a big article to Jim Holloway (you can read the entire article online). From what I have read, Holloway is most famous for having a few problems around the Frontrange that have gone unrepeated despite doing the first ascents 30 years ago. Here he describes […]
Archive | News RSS feed for this section
Dave Graham Climbs Realization (5.15a)
Dave Graham on Realization Photo: BigUp Yesterday, Dave Graham made the 4th ascent (Sharma, Patxi Usobiaga, Sylvain Millet) of Chris Sharma’s Realization (5.15a) at Ceuse, France. Those who remember “Dosage 1” will remember that it was Dave who belayed Chris on his FA. I had speculated in June that this might be the year that […]
More News & Notes – 7/30/2007
I really dropped the ball this morning when I failed to mention a few more tidbits to check out: An updated version of the already phenomenal guidebook to sport climbing at the Red River Gorge is coming out September 28, 2007: The Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky is one of the best rock-climbing areas […]
News & Notes – 7/30/2007
Paul Robinson is back from his trip to California with Daniel Woods. I would have to believe he is a little bit disappointed he did not send problems like Black Mamba (V13) or Somewhere in Time (V13) like Mr. Woods did, but it sounded like a great trip nonetheless. If you didn’t see it in […]
Kelly McBride Sends V11
Props to Kelly McBride for sending Kind Traverse (V11) at Emerald Lake in RMNP. Nice Work! Photo (of practice sending) by sock hands Pretty strong for someone from Wisconsin.
More on Sharma’s Uber-Proj
There is a lot of mystery surrounding this project at the epic 3rd Tier/Monastery of Clark Mountain that Chris Sharma has been working on. It is getting a lot of play for becoming THE standard for hard climbing if/once he sends it. Details beyond this have been hard to come by although a few words […]
Michael Reardon Obituary
Some final closure on the death of Michael Reardon Technorati Tags: Michael Reardon, Climbing News
-
Jared: Use to visit this site daily. Miss you Narc! Hope ...
-
chris marcolini: Did you ever find the falling block?...
-
Nate: The narc lives on, at least as an archive. Miss th...
- Climbing Controversy: Behind the Decades-Long Conflict Roiling the Sport’s Elite - Swiss Cycles: […] the world’s first consensus 5.15b in 2...
- Climbing Controversy: Behind the Decades-Long Conflict Roiling the Sport’s Elite - Swiss Cycles: […] that they didn’t see repeats for decad...
-
J: Two slings half inch webbing 24 inch sewn slings w...
-
Animull89: So gnarly that he did that twice...I remember the ...
