In 2012, accomplished ice/mixed climber Gord McArthur wrote this article for Gripped. The 10 routes he selected as Canada's best have stood the test of time. Nobody has ever climbed them all in one season
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https://gripped.com/profiles/10-of-canadas-best-winter-mixed-climbs/
Dear Kurt, This is a letter I don’t want to write. Writing is often difficult to get started, but this one is nearly impossible because you are gone, at least in the physical. It was in the evening of my birthday when I learned that you were presumed dead on Mt. Cook in New Zealand. …
https://climbingzine.com/a-letter-to-kurt-blair-by-luke-mehall/
Illusionist 5.14d was one of many of the grade Ghisolfi completed this summer in Norway
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Maksym Petrenko was one of Ukraine’s strongest sport climbers in the early aughts. He was just killed in combat near Toretsk.
https://www.climbing.com/news/former-ukrainian-climbing-star-maksym-petrenko-killed-in-battle/
About the 5.14d he said, "I could even imagine hard 8c [5.14c] the way I did it..."
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“Life can be rugged and cold, or smooth and exciting. The climb these two have just performed today symbolizes life and all of its trials and excitements,” read our officiant. “…All love is enclosed in our love: / all thirst ends in our embrace,” I read, starting an excerpt from “Ode and Burgeonings” by Pablo…
https://climbingzine.com/long-life-endures-climber-wedding-sara-aranda/