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Watch the third-ever flash of a V15 boulder
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International visitors will have to pay US $250, where U.S. citizens will pay $80
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The fifth climbing stop of the road trip: a week in Tahoe, mostly spent on the East shore. Also my first outdoor 6!

#bouldering #climbing #tahoe

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The climbers were part of a team of four, no names of have been officially released
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#makeShitMonday, #climbing edition...

@mbroome and I haven't been climbing as much this year, partly due to schedules, partly my shoulder recovery. But we got out to Pilot Mountain last Sunday with a bunch of friends, and that reminded me that I've been meaning to replace my various tied cords - prusiks and foot loop for emergency rope ascent, spare footloop that doubles as my chalkbag belt, and autoblock for rappel backup - since they're all well over a decade old by now. They all *look* fine, but cord is cheap and nylon degrades over time, so...

He picked up some cord for us back in October, so we dug out the hot knife, set up a fan in the garage, and got to work. I had to go in for a respirator mask almost immediately - something about burning plastic gives me an instant headache - but we got them all cut to length and re-tied pretty quickly.

Not quite the same diameters as the original cord, but I gave the autoblock a test drive on Thursday and it worked just fine!

@cannibal
#rockclimbing #DIY

cavernous, łódź, nov 2025

I had a previous shot from the same position (in Zatoka Sportu at the Lodz Polytechnic University) on here somewhere, but lately they decided to put that wall to the left in. esthetically not that ideal as previously the building felt light and airy, while now it feels cramped despite all the space. I assume it had more to do with the noise from either side of the wall though.

#climbing #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite

‪Lots of thing happening so I almost missed the North American release of Girl Climber which I graded. The low-light shots benefited from NeatVideo 6 and Topaz helped with reducing some highly compressed archival stuff.

#colorist #colorgrading #climbing #documentary

Keen mountain adventurer Rio James might only be nine, but he's already braced arctic weather conditions and altitude sickness to raise money for a food poverty charity.

Luis Contreras is breathing steadily, forcefully, with intention.
He is 15 feet off the deck, and has 20 more feet of textured edges, sidepulls, and huecos to top out Wyoming Cowgirls, a 35-foot V5 on Hueco Tanks’ North Mountain that has recently been reopened.
A few pads sit lonely in the rocks below. Each of his precise foot placements and composed breaths are indicators of the stakes, and they reflect the time this climber put into top-rope rehearsing such a consequential highball. His movements are linked in chains of powerful bursts punctuated by rests. A certain barely observable shaking reverberates from his core into his limbs, but his breaths and the wind are the song he is dancing to—the shaking and the fear squashed down.
For Contreras, “the best climbs are the ones that even if you’re not a climber you walk by and you say, 'Wow that’s a sick climb...' I [am] drawn to these striking tall faces.” Wyoming Cowgirls had always been one of those climbs.
Contreras tops out quietly, his focus unwavering until he is fully over the rounded slab of this immense boulder, where he sits. No whoops, no cheers. Just a private adrenaline high coursing through his veins.
Instead of celebration, he gazes out to the brush-filled desert beyond.
How do you understand the essence of a place? There are of course the facts and figures, the ecology and topography of the terrain, but there are also the traditions and rituals and history of the people who move across it. Such entanglements are why some might say that “the climbing community” (singular) is a misnomer. Our landscapes too-specifically shape us.
For example, Rifle is the land of lifers. That tight canyon, with its near-instant access to climbing seconds from the car, allows for kids splashing in the stream, craggers at Project Wall rubbernecking as you drive by, and the daily parking shuffle as you move from crag to crag. Ten Sleep is Adult Summer Camp: Given the long journey required to get there and its minimal infrastructure, the place welcomes tech bros and remote workers to set up shop for a month or the whole summer, with scheduled camp activities limited to river time, brewery time, or climbing time. As a final example, the Red River Gorge is never never land, where a dirtbag might never grow up.
Climbing cultures, like any culture, are a mixture of language, beliefs, rituals, norms, legends, and ethics that are largely shared by a community and emerge from the interaction of that community with their landscape. Hueco’s iconic roofs, abundant kneebars, airy highballs, deep bouldering history, importance to Indigenous cultures like the Tigua Indians of Ysleta del Sur, and fragile and rare ecosystem shape its climbers too, on an individual level and at scale.
Bouldering in Hueco is an intimate affair. With guides required to access most of the climbing, and groups capped at ten people, “most people know most people, and if you don’t know them it’s only a matter of time,” says Luis Contreras, who is a Hueco guide of a decade and El Paso born and raised.
Most climbers at Hueco fall into one of four groups: the El Paso “city” climbers, the lifers who own property right outside Hueco Tanks State Park, the seasonal dirtbags who migrate every winter, and the out-of-town visitors who pilgrimage there (often yearly) when they can scrabble together some PTO. Even the visitors become known entities—once you have a guide you trust, why not come back to climb with them again and again? You’ll likely find who you’re looking for at one of three community hubs: the Iron Gnome, the AAC’s Hueco Rock Ranch, or the Mountain Hut.
Within such a small community, a run-in with an old head or unique character is considered commonplace. You might chat with Lynn Hill over beers at the Iron Gnome, or spot Jason Kehl out in the distance developing a new line. You’ll likely wave at Sid Roberts as he leaves the park from his early-morning session, or even share a laugh with the colorful John Sherman—the originator of the V-Scale.
But no matter what kind of Hueco climber you are, climbing at Hueco feels deeply entangled—it requires a self-consciousness of landscape, access, and ethics that doesn’t just fall away when you throw down your pads and pull onto rock. But that’s not a downside for locals like Luis Contreras and Joey McDaniel. That’s...

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This is her second hard climb this season and her most difficult to date
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Shadow Buttress Direct and Shadowboxin are the newest additions to the world of Scottish winter routes
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Joe-Cita comes after a 5.14 flash and her second send of a 5.15a
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Note: this poem is published in Volume 20 of The Zine. Photo by the author.  we take climbing as medicine: you insist, but your pill bottles shrink four… three… two and you’re gone lost as the gear we bailed on during solemn retreat after groveling, questing up & up & up until our callused hands…

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We’ve snaffled the last remaining stock of the Edelrid Wind Up Chest Ascender! 🧗‍️

Only 21 available. Now £45 (25% off RRP).

140g lightweight design
Grips on muddy/icy ropes
Safety lock mechanism

When they’re gone, they’re gone. Shop here: https://www.inglesport.com/product/edelrid-wind-up-chest-ascender/

#outdoors #OutdoorAdventure #climbing #climbinggear #caving #potholing #spelunking #srtkit #yorkshiredales

La Sportiva Strange Heroes: Patxi Usobiaga
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U8bg1ZTppe4&si=wkKhp1oBbRmdG1w4

"I felt that I was a climber before being a climber" #climbing #sportclimbing #rockclimbing #freeclimbing

OK, my hands were sweating just watching that climb.

#Freeclimbing #Climbing