This week's Friday Night Video is about the pure obsession and effort behind a hard trad first ascent by Qubcois/Australian Jacques Beaudoin.Mother Earth (8b) is a stunning sixty-degree thin crack climb hidden amongst bushland that has been heavily impacted by industrial logging and mining, as well as wildfires.
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=784235
Jonas Schild, climbing with Thomas Schmid, has made a free ascent of Joy Division (F8b, 800m), Val di Mello, Italy.
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/schild-makes-free-ascent-of-joy-division-in-val-di-mello/
Some easy, relaxed #climbing in #Yvoir, #Belgium today.A large rockslide took out most of the top layer of this slab 3 years ago. The yellow bits in the first picture are newly exposed rock; the dark grey is some of the old rock surface that is still hanging on.
<p>The previously unclimbed summit sits in the shadow of the iconic peak Rakaposhi</p>
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