Climbing Areas Archives: England
Where In The World Is Chris Sharma?

Where In The World Is Chris Sharma?

When I was a kid, one of the games we played on the classic Apple IIe computers was Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego. The basic gist of the game was that adults were tricking us into learning geography while we tried to arrest the evil Carmen Sandiego. In a lot of ways, I feel the same way nowadays trying to track the progress of everyone’s favorite climber, Chris Sharma.

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Simba’s Pride Video From Hotaches

Hotaches Productions has posted a cool clip of Ben Cossey highball bouldering the route/boulder Simba’s Pride (E8 6b).

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Video: George Ullrich Gaia (E8 6c) Flash Attempt

Video: George Ullrich Gaia (E8 6c) Flash Attempt

Check out this incredible video of Brit George Ullrich attempting to flash Gaia.

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Team America Gritstone Sending Videos

Team America Gritstone Sending Videos

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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America! F**k Yeah!

America! F**k Yeah!

Team America continues to leave their mark on British Gritsone…

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Kevin Jorgeson Decks From And Then Sends Gaia (E8), Solos Meshuga (E9)

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 […]

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News & Notes – 10/29/2008

News & Notes – 10/29/2008

News from Kevin Jorgeson, James Webb, Daniel Woods and Justin Alarcon. Notes on DPM, RRG Accidents and more.

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