As a follow-up to last week’s entry about Team America’s exploits in the British gritstone, here are are a series of videos first posted on UKClimbing.com. They feature Alex Honnold, Kevin Jorgeson and Matt Segal repeating several gritstone testpieces.
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Kevin Jorgeson Decks From And Then Sends Gaia (E8), Solos Meshuga (E9)
An interesting bit of news was just posted over at MomentumVM. Kevin Jorgeson, who has been climbing on the Gritstone of England for the past several weeks, was out climbing recently at the Black Rocks area in Derbyshire. Black Rocks is home to two very famous grit routes in Gaia (E8 6b) and Meshuga (E9 […]
Kevin Jorgeson Takes His Bold Skills Overseas
Kevin Jorgeson is best known here in the U.S. for blurring the line between highball bouldering and outright soloing. His notable highball boulder ascents include The Duel (V10 FA) in Hueco Tanks, The Beautiful and Damned (V13 FA) and Flight Of The Bumblebee (V9 FA) in Bishop. In addition to these bold boulders, ropeless ascents […]
News & Notes – 10/1/2008
Rocktoberfest is coming soon to the Red River Gorge, Ty Landman repeats Sharma’s Practice Of The Wild, James Pearson climbs E12, the Colorado Bouldering guidebook controversy and much more!
New Devil’s Lake Guidebook Delayed?
As far as guidebooks go, the current edition of the “Climber’s Guide to Devil’s Lake” by Sven Olaf Swartling is the epitome of the phrase “it is what it is”. It is far from spectacular, what with its grainy black and white butt shot pictures and somewhat vague topos. However, the book is pretty thorough […]
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Amateur Hour At Devil’s Lake
After two frustrating weekends that involved no outdoor climbing, this past weekend we made it out to the quartzite bluffs of Devil’s Lake. The crew consisted of Mrs. Narc, Old School, Mrs. Old School and myself. Needless to say, dozens of e-mails back and forth all week had my palms sweating in anticipation. We spent […]
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Matt Segal Does 4th Ascent of Cobra Crack
Matt Segal has made the 4th ascent of one of the hardest traditionally protected crack climbs in the world, Cobra Crack (5.14) in Squamish, BC. It was first climbed by Sonnie Trotter a few years back with Nicolas Favresse and Ethan Pringle making quick repeats earlier this summer. Click here to see video of Trotter working the line. So who’s next on Beth Rodden’s Meltdown??
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