How did I end up becoming an off-width climber? I used to absolutely hate off-widths—mostly because I didn’t like the way it felt thrashing blindly inside of them. It hurt. It felt unpleasant. And I never had enough wide gear. The whole endeavor felt like a waste of time. My first visit to the off-width…
https://climbingzine.com/the-wide-tour-by-mary-eden-an-excerpt-from-volume-25/
The 37-year-old announced a new video project that will document his progress
The post Paul Robinson Wants to Climb These 10 Boulders Before He Turns 40 appeared first on Gripped Magazine.
https://gripped.com/news/paul-robinson-wants-to-climb-these-10-boulders-before-he-turns-40/
Just test-drove the topo editor that @bohwaz@mamot.fr fixed up, and it's working great, nice work!!
Scaling is a bit off; I had to scale up pretty much everything (lines, marks, text) by 200-300%, but that's due to images being so huge nowadays.
Looking forward to updating my photos of The Crag Next Door with proper topos!
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Italian competition climber Laura Rogora continues to rack up more impressive repeats with two more F9as in Italy; Flipping the Bird and Prima Classe after sending Goldrake (F9a+) earlier.
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/laura-rogora-s-send-train-continues-with-two-f9a-repeats/
When sharing news of his ascent of Weeping Arete, Dan Varian avoided the fanfare that one might associate with the first ascent of a boulder lauded as one of Gritstone's last great problems.
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=772598
