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How to show in one picture that you have absolutely no idea what #climbing and #mountaineering is about. 🤣🤦‍♂️

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  • Moya Moya ShashinM

    The Rock, The Hard Place, The Between

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    The Rock, The Hard Place, The Between #photography #monochrome #minimal #climbing #film
  • Dan MurphyD

    I've only been climbing for just over a month, but it's so satisfying to come away from a session having achieved things I couldn't manage a few weeks ago.

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    I've only been climbing for just over a month, but it's so satisfying to come away from a session having achieved things I couldn't manage a few weeks ago.Tonight, it was completing several overhanging routes at V1 and V2, when a few weeks ago I could barely get established on those problems. I also had a go at a couple of V3 problems and made some progress, but they're still a bit beyond me for now.#bouldering #climbing
  • American Alpine ClubA

    The Prescription—Anchor Failure

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    This month we feature an accident that occurred in 2024 on Yosemite’s Manure Pile Buttress when a climber mistied a knot. You can reference this accident in this years Accidents in North American Climbing (page 46). The knot involved was bulky and involved multiple strands of webbing, brought together to tie a single anchor loop. The average climber only needs to know several simple knots but sometimes, even experts can get it wrong. This climber was lucky and escaped with minor injuries. On June 24, 2024 during the American Alpine Club’s United in Yosemite Climbing Festival, a climber led the first pitch of After Six (5.7). At the belay tree, they set up a lowering anchor using a knot on a quad-length sling with two locking carabiners. The climber weighted the rope and lowered. He cleaned the top piece of gear (a camming device). Below, a second cam proved too tight to remove so he unclipped it. The climber continued to lower. At the third piece from the top, the anchor knot failed. The climber fell 80 feet before the belayer caught his fall, when the climber was about five feet above the ground. The climber was lowered and SAR was called. His injuries included a sprained ankle, lacerations on the face, a broken nose, and rope burns on the hands and fingers.  A slipknot looks deceptively like other knots you'd use in a climbing anchor, but when you actually load it, it's not going to hold much at all. Pete Takeda, Editor of Accidents in North American Climbing, and IFMGA/AMGA Guide Jason Antin, are back to explain how a slipknot can have serious consequences when used in climbing anchors. Credits: Pete Takeda, Editor of Accidents in North American Climbing; IFMGA/AMGA Guide Jason Antin; Producers: Shane Johnson and Sierra McGivney; Videographer: Foster Denney; Editor: Sierra McGivney; Location: Accessibility Crag, Clear Creek, CO. The climber was fortunate that he had high protection that stopped him from hitting the ground when the anchor failed and lots of slack was introduced into the belay system. The anchor sling was found with an intact overhand knot. The belayer, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote to ANAC: “We believe it was an attempted overhand knot but it was actually a slipknot.” The still-locked masterpoint carabiners were found clipped to the rope by the fallen climber.  *Editor’s Note: After analysis, it was determined that the climber had attempted to tie an overhand knot but failed to pull the two end strands completely through the knot. He then clipped the two locking carabiners through the unsecured loops. Since there were so many strands of webbing in the mix, it was hard to tell the difference between a fixed loop and a slip loop. When weighted, the slip loops had sufficient friction and compression to hold, if only momentarily, while the ends gradually crept toward release. (Sources: Anonymous and ANAC Canada Editor Robert Chisnall.) https://americanalpineclub.org/news/2025/11/12/the-prescription
  • GrippedG

    History Made as American Skis North Side of Mount Everest

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    Jim Morrison is the first person to ski the entire north side of Everest, linking the Hornbein Couloir with the Japanese Couloir The post History Made as American Skis North Side of Mount Everest appeared first on Gripped Magazine. https://gripped.com/news/history-made-as-american-skis-north-side-of-mount-everest/
  • GrippedG

    Laura Rogora Opens a 5.14d in Italy

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    GrippedG
    In a single day, she climbed two 5.14b routes, one of which was an onsight, and FA'd a 5.14d on her second go The post Laura Rogora Opens a 5.14d in Italy appeared first on Gripped Magazine. https://gripped.com/news/laura-rogora-opens-a-5-14d-in-italy/
  • IFSCI

    Hand in hand through EACH AND EVERY round of the event! #Shorts

    Videos climbing ifsc
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEuQPjVkkd0
  • ClimbingZineC

    Patience by Chris Schulte

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    It starts with a plan like a break in the clouds. We set out thinking on the lines, the foods, the sunrises and campfires, the saving up. And then you set to with the forty-second aspen tree planted that day, the twenty-third special with sauce on the side, the eighty-first stone laid, the fifteenth pair… https://climbingzine.com/patience-chris-schulte/
  • UK ClimbingU

    Exposure Photography Festival - 6-8th September

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    https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=774072