Once you decide to go 'pegless' you are kind of committed, you can't exactly grab a peg if you get tired, and with just cams on your rack it's gonna be a fiddly effort if you fluff a placement to try and clip a peg instead!
Four ice climbers spent New Years 1975 in a cave on the side of Cirrus Mountain in the Canadian Rockies
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https://gripped.com/profiles/polar-circus-the-ice-climb-that-took-eight-days-on-the-first-ascent/
Spots of Lime is Bosi's latest hard sport climbing route
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https://gripped.com/news/will-bosi-fas-a-5-14d-in-the-uk/
Jakob Schubert reports multiple ascents on the Swiss blocs including the second ascent of Story of Three Worlds (Font 8C+).
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/jakob-schubert-storms-swiss-blocs-including-a-font-8c-repeat/
The pumpkin was painted in 1968 and has been left over the years, but you should never graffiti or paint on rock
The post The Pumpkin Route on Yamnuska is Classic appeared first on Gripped Magazine.
https://gripped.com/routes/rockies/the-pumpkin-route-on-yamnuska-is-classic/
Innsbruck closed with Janja Garnbret with double Golds whilst Sohta Amagasa and Jakob Schubert get the Gold in Men’s Boulder and Lead and Toby Roberts gets Bronze in Lead and 4th in Boulder
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/innsbruck-double-gold-for-garnbret-whilst-roberts-podiums-with-a-bronze-in-lead/
