Got a good #climbing workout in before all the children showed up. 5.75.75.85.95.10c5.10c5.10a5.9I don’t have anything AGAINST children, per se. But they do tend to clog up the works at the climbing gym. Once enough of them show up, it’s just time to go unless you want to wait a while for a route to open up.
Babsi Zangerl just became the first person to free climb a route on El Capitan on her first try, without a fall. Her ascent closes a 30-year chapter of attempts.
https://www.climbing.com/news/history-of-el-capitan-flash-attempts/
I have started writing a new KaiOS app. With the app you can search for climbing routes and then enter the routes you have made in a logbook. The data comes from https://openbeta.io, a freely available climbing route database with a very active community. A live version of the app -> https://pictick.strukturart.com #KaiOS #climbing
This week's Friday Night Video takes us part way up Helvellyn,where Aidan Roberts is attempting to make the first ascent of Britain's hardest boulder to date, Spots of Time, 9A.
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=775552
Shortly after winning the Briançon Lead World Cup, Mei Kotake topped New Base Line V14
The post World Cup Champ Sends Her First V14 appeared first on Gripped Magazine.
https://gripped.com/news/world-cup-champ-sends-her-first-v14/
An unknown American climber found the corpse, searched it for identification, and found a perfectly preserved driver’s license alongside various personal affects.
https://www.climbing.com/news/body-of-american-climber-found-in-peru/