An essay by the late Marv Dean about an adventurous February day in the Canadian Rockies at a time before ice climbing became a mainstream sport
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WI6+ marks the upper limit of pure ice difficulty. Here are 10 routes with the grade from B.C. to Newfoundland.
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Oliver Tippett has climbed new ground to make the first ascent of Cardiac Arrest
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These were just some of the headline-making climbs from the 1970s
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Young Peak District based crusher Jacob Amos has closed out his efforts on Duel (Font 8A), the famous Fontainebleau testpiece.
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/jacob-amos-sends-font-s-famous-testpiece-duel-font-8a/
A must-watch new documentary just dropped on Netflix, check out the trailer below
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