A new trailer promises a great film about an historical ascent of the first 5.14 big wall
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Score 400 pages of reading material + three dope stickers for $40 NEW Bundle Sale Volumes 21 – 24
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I hold and turn my helmet like a classroom globe, dragging my fingers over each mark, each sign of wear. Every indent, every groove represents a route, a pitch, a move, a memory. Note: this piece is published in the new Zine, Volume 17, now available to order. In my hands is my beaten-up shield.…
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The Wide Boy powered through 200 feet of hand-fist stacks on the underbelly of a German bridge, creating what is likely the world’s hardest offwidth.
https://www.climbing.com/news/worlds-hardest-offwidth-is-by-tom-randall/
After decades of friendship, a British duo just nabbed a first ascent of Yawash Sar, a stunning 6,000-meter peak in Pakistan.
https://www.climbing.com/news/british-alpinists-summit-unclimbed-peak-pakistan/
Pull-ups are the most commonly practiced training exercise for climbing, yet how much do we really know about them?
https://www.climbing.com/skills/pull-ups-for-beginners/
Originally graded E5, War and Peace, an epic 16-pitch traverse across Craig Dorys on loose and friable rock, was first climbed by Pat Littlejohn and Steve Sustad in 1997 over two-and-a-half days, with 20 hours of climbing time.
The Lln Peninsula guidebook quotes Pat, saying: "It would go well in two days with a biv...
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'Rhapsody' is every bit as hard and runout as it was in 2006, however the many repetitions—and widely watched whipper videos—lowered the mystique of the route somewhat. Mat Wright proves its still got some bite.
https://www.climbing.com/videos/huge-fall-off-one-worlds-hardest-trad-routes/
Mick Fowler and Victor Saunders secure (yet another) first ascent in the Karakoram some 40 years after their first visit.
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/fowler-and-saunders-make-first-ascent-of-yawash-sar-karakoram/
The climber from Wisconsin was rappelling pitch two of a popular 5.8 trad route when he fell.
https://www.climbing.com/news/21-year-old-dies-rappelling-accident-on-devils-tower/
Luckily the rockfall happened at night and nobody was below the North Walls. There's a link to the rockfall below
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Google AI says that if you're looking for a climber, just look for the person "standing on one leg.” We think there are more accurate ways to find our kind in the wild.
https://www.climbing.com/people/how-to-idenitify-climbers-in-the-wild/
UK-based charity makes mountains safely accessible to young people, aligning with Rab's values and brand heritage
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Part character study, part trad story, follow buddies Nick Bullock and Mick Lovatt as they repeat a sideways seaside rock route
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Tom Randall has completed one of his most audacious projects to date, a 60-metre horizontal offwidth in Germany
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"Hey I'm going back to Mirror Wall in the summer, there's an absolute king line, let me know if you're psyched to join" were the words of Sean's message in my inbox.
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Work has begun this week on a big expansion of the Stac Pollaidh car park, and in 2025 toilets will also be built at the busy site for the first time.
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