Climbing Areas Archives: Switzerland

Adam Ondra Dreamtime Video

Posted March 25, 2008 at 6:24 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Apparently climbing 3 hard 5.14s in one day wasn’t enough for young Adam Ondra.  Here is some video that Jamie Emerson captured of the young Czech climbing prodigy repeating Fred Nicole’s classic boulder Dreamtime (V14) in Cresciano, Switzerland. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_2fpTmwpfY]

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News & Notes – 3/10/2008

News & Notes – 3/10/2008

Posted March 10, 2008 at 1:45 pm · Comments { 7 } ·

Just an update on Beth Rodden’s new 5.14 trad route Meltdown. Big Up Productions was there filming her work on the route for the upcoming Dosage 5. Big Up shares their first hand takes on what went down including nuggets like, “After about 10 sessions of working it on top-rope Tommy was never able to […]

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Problogs: Angie Payne & Daniel Woods

Problogs: Angie Payne & Daniel Woods

Posted February 14, 2008 at 9:12 am · Comments { 2 } ·

Climbing.com has added two more pro climbers to their growing list of bloggers: Daniel Woods and Angie Payne. Angie’s first blog is about her trip to the South with Jamie Emerson. Here she is pulling down on a problem high on my wishlist: Slider (V9) at HP40. Photo: B3bouldering Check out Daniel’s first update which […]

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News & Notes – 1/31/08

News & Notes – 1/31/08

Posted January 31, 2008 at 4:23 am · Comments { 3 } ·

Recent climbing news including: Sharma & Harrington are national champions, Daniel Woods repeating V14 in a day, Hayden Miller climbing at Ute pass and news from Bernd Zangerl.

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News & Notes – Mass Update

News & Notes – Mass Update

Posted January 21, 2008 at 4:28 pm · Comments { 2 } ·

Thanks to James for compiling this massive list of updates. In this update you will find a lot of news on Dai Koyamada’s exploints in the Frankenjura. Also news from Daniel Woods, Jon Cardwell, Chris Sharma, Dave Graham, Lisa Rands and Paxti Usobiaga among others. This has taken me longer than anticipated so some of […]

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3rd V13 Flash for James Pearson

3rd V13 Flash for James Pearson

Posted December 3, 2007 at 8:27 am · Comments { 2 } ·

21 year old James Pearson added to his unprecedented list of V13 flashes this past month when he flashed Schules des Lebens in Chironico, Switzerland. In Switzerland to work on Dave Graham’s unrepeated V15 From Dirt Grows the Flowers, Pearson had a great deal of success on several of the “easier” problem he tried. He […]

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All’s Not Well In Swizzy

Posted April 27, 2007 at 11:42 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Mixed news out of the climbing paradises of Switzerland. The good news is that James Pearson has made his 2nd flash of a V13 boulder. I had previously reported that he flashed Ganymede Takeover in Brione, Swizzy. This time around he had set his eyes on flashing The Great Shark Hunt at Chironico and that […]

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