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CCH Alien Cams Are Coming Back

CCH Alien Cams Are Coming Back

Posted July 20, 2011 at 10:10 am · Comments { 8 } ·

After a year and a half of negotiating with CCH Alien creator David Wagoneer’s widow, Fixe-Faders will bring Aliens back to market later this year

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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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Colorado Alpine Update

Colorado Alpine Update

Posted July 13, 2011 at 2:44 pm · Comments { 13 } ·

After the summer of 2010 saw an explosion in development thanks mainly to the efforts of Dave Graham, the summer of 2011 looks to be one of repeats and consolidation in Colorado’s alpine bouldering hotspots

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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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