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Climb Like Chris Sharma: His Tips, Part 1

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What Did You Do This Weekend?

What Did You Do This Weekend?

Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell get the coveted Free Triple in Yosemite

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Two 5.14d FA’s By Pirmin Bertle

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Ethan Pringle On Jumbo Love

Ethan Pringle is back at Mt. Clark, home to that one route first done by that one guy:

Projecting a route like this requires all of your attention, and having to devote all of your attention to a route like this can get really tiring really fast. At some point, you just want to get it over with. Of course, afterward you feel a mix of relief and loss. Relief that you’re done and the epic is over, and loss that this magnificent line doesn’t require your presence anymore. But for me, I think I’ll have to take a nice long break from serious route projects for a little while after this. Like Randy Levitt said, “It’s like a limestone El Cap.” Obviously, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it does sort of convey the amount of work required to complete a project of this caliber.

Pringle is no stranger to Jumbo Love, having tried it even before its FA back in 2008. You can see some footage of those attempts here.

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Campus Training With Flannery Shay-Nemirow

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Trailer: DAVE

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Mon Pote Assis (5.14a) By Heather Robinson

Mon Pote Assis (5.14a) By Heather Robinson

A little over a year after she did her first 5.13d, Heather Robinson fired her first 5.14a when she did Mon Pote Assis at Nevada’s Mt. Potosi.  Commenting about the ascent on her 8a scorecard she had this to say: Oh my goodness! This send was a dream come true. Thank you Chris for believing in […]

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