Five more quick tips on best practices. In this article: removing rope twists before pulling your rappel rope; warm up your phone before you try to charge it; keep Velcro away from Dyneema slings; things to avoid when tying a tagline to your main rappel line, and how to use latitude longitude coordinates to describe any point in the backcountry.
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New film gives some history to the area and captures the first ascent of Holey Guacamoley
The post Peter Croft, Owens River Gorge and a New 5.14 appeared first on Gripped Magazine.
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Ethan Flynn Pitcher has beaten his old record at the recent Chamonix World Cup
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Campaigners against the mass roll-out of new telecoms masts in remote parts of Highland Scotland have declared a 'major success', as it emerged that the taxpayer-funded programme has been significantly scaled back.
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“I climb my best 4,000 feet off the ground” – Alex Honnold. Luke Mehall + Alex Honnold in dirtbag state of mind.
https://climbingzine.com/untroubled-with-alex-honnold/
'Rhapsody' is every bit as hard and runout as it was in 2006, however the many repetitions—and widely watched whipper videos—lowered the mystique of the route somewhat. Mat Wright proves its still got some bite.
https://www.climbing.com/videos/huge-fall-off-one-worlds-hardest-trad-routes/
A new film documents her ascent of a 5.13 on the most famous big wall in the world
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“We’re not sponsoring The Climbing Zine, because we’re only doing digital ads this year,” my contact at Patagonia told me. This was a setback I’d been anticipating — Patagonia has pulled back from a few different long term sponsorships — but to hear these words directly, from my long term business colleague who represents the…
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