 CLIMBING MAGAZINE APPAREL
Climbing's T-shirts, hoodies and hats make great gifts for any Climbing Mag reader in your family - including yourself. All Items in stock: Men's Short Sleeve, Men's 40th Anniversary Long Sleeve, Men's 40th Anniversary Pullover Hoodie, Women's Short Sleeve, Women's 40th Anniversary Long Sleeve, Women's 40th Anniversary Pullover Hoodie, Kid's Short Sleeve, Baby Short Sleeve One Piece, and Baseball Cap.
 Win a Mountain Hardwear Trango 2 Tent
ENTER NOW for a chance to win a Mountain Hardwear Trango 2 Tent! The winter mountaineering standard for over a decade, Trango tents are extremely refined shelters for two, three and four people. Featuring Atlas Scandium XL poles combined with our four-pole design and including our patented tension shelf for added strength, Trango™ tents excel in the toughest conditions.
 Kyle Copeland 1958-2009
Kyle Copeland, 51, passed away on Saturday, October 3, 2009 at a Rock Canyon Rehabilitation Facility in Provo, Utah. Few of equal stature would have survived his long battled illness with more bravery and courage. Boulder and Moab became Kyle’s climbing hubs and he moved to Moab, Utah in 1989.
 Carolina Climbers Coalition and the Access Fund Set to Purchase Rumbling Bald West Side Boulders in North Carolina
The Carolina Climbers Coalition and the Access Fund announced today the intent to purchase and conserve the Rumbling Bald West Side Boulders in North Carolina. The Access Fund, the national advocacy organization that keeps U.S. climbing areas open and conserves the climbing environment, will provide a bridge loan of $72,000 from the new Access Fund Land Conservation Campaign to finance 90% of the purchase price for the 6.12 acre tract that is currently under contract by the Carolina Climbers Coalition.
 December 2009 - 281
LOS SUEÑOS GRANDES - El Chonta, the monster limestone grotto near Mexico City; WATER WARS - Sink your picks into the sleeper ice of Niobrara, Nebraska; MOUNTAIN MISHAPS - Eight hilarious ways to almost die in the mountains;XA^APA (HALARA) - Greece’s trad-flavored multi-pitch limestone of Varasova
 Fuel Economy
The original Fuel, introduced in 2007, quickly became a go-to headlamp,
with a sturdy, lightweight, and functional design at a friendly price.
The new PRINCETON TEC FUEL ($26.99, princetontec.com), however,
keeps the same price but adds a fourth 5mm Ultrabright LED, upping
the brightness by 10 lumens.
 U of Utah Students Take Home the "Top Climber" Title at Westminster’s Intercollegiate Climbing Wall Competition
Two students from the University of Utah once again took home bragging rights as “top boulderers” at Westminster College’s second annual intercollegiate climbing wall competition November 17, 2009. More than 40 students from colleges throughout the state, including Westminster College, University of Utah, Utah State University, Weber State University, Utah Valley University and Salt Lake Community College participated in the contest – the largest group to compete thus far.
 ICE Climbing Ecrins 2010
France's Ice Climbing Ecrins celebrates 20 years and has become a premiere location for extreme winter sports. Uniting ice-climbing amateurs from all over the world, ‘ICE’ held in the unforgettable valleys of Freissinieres and Fournel, is today a key event for the most passionate of ice-climbers. This year's festival, held from January the 8th - 10th, will offer a wide range of activities including training workshops, ice-climbing initiations and expert level training. Visit: www.ice-climbing-ecrins.com
Skram Media Magazines Partner with Outdoor Retailer
12/09/09 - Skram Media's Climbing and Urban Climber magazines, the market leaders in the rock-climbing category, announced today a partnership with Outdoor Retailer, the world's premier outdoor lifestyle trade shows.
Mountain Khakis and Fresh Air Junkie partner up for Where do you get your fresh air fix? social media contest
12/04/09 - Mountain Khakis®, a premier outdoor-lifestyle apparel brand “Built for the Mountain Life”, proudly announces their weekly social media contest with on-line magazine FreshAirJunkie.com entitled, Where Do You Get Your Fresh Air Fix?
Verde PR & Consulting and Base Camp Communications Join Forces
12/01/09 - Two of the outdoor industry’s best-recognized and successful public relations agencies, Verde PR & Consulting and Base Camp Communications, will merge Dec. 1, creating the most broad-reaching and integrated PR firm in the outdoor space.
 Adrenaline Climbing - Suwanee, Georgia
Adrenaline Climbing is located at 460 Brogdon Road in Suwanee, Georgia just a mile from the Suwanee Town Center Park. Travelling northbound on I-85, Suwanee is about 30 miles from the epicenter of Atlanta, or about 15 miles from the Perimeter (I-285). Visit: www.adrenalineclimbing.com
 PENMEN Cartoons
Updated 10/30/09 - Climbing.com is pleased to present the PENMEN Cartoons by Colorado Springs climber Gary Blehm. Visit his website penmen.com for posters, animations, music videos, games, and more...
|
 |
 The Longest Climb - Part 2
So… its all actually really, properly, happening. For real.
The wheels are turning, the wagons rolling and any other getting started type metaphors you can think off. I’m sure anyone reading this by now will be aware of the challenge Tom and I are taking on – unless by some random, freak occurrence of coincidence you have just landed on this blog by chance, in all the billions of pages on the internet.
 Mountain Weather
Updated 12/09/09 by Michael Fagin - Weekly updates on mountain weather for a different location each week and updated every Thursday. We will cover the following: Alps, Cascades, Sierra, Aconcagua, and more will be added. Lead forecaster Michael Fagin has been providing mountain weather forecasts since the 1970's.
 Bouldering Norway
Photos by Laurent de Senarclens - Magnus Midtboe, one of Norway's top climbers, made some impressive highball ascents this fall (2009) on the granite of his homeland during a recent Mammut sponsored trip along with swiss aces Cyrille Albasini, Franz Widmer and World Cup champion Anna Stöhr. Magnus first "warmed up" with Good Year a 6-7 meter Font 7c+ first ascent (after a bit of cleaning and quick abseil) at the sea side boulders of Sirevag in the Rogaland region. Later on the trip at the area of Lysebotn (a world famous base jump location) Magnus made the first ascent of the 10 meter Hoka Hey (Font 7c+) after a couple top rope laps to inspect the rock and clean it up a bit. "Hoka Hey" roughly translates from the Sioux Indian saying "it's a nice day to die".
Updated 12/07/09 with Greg Burns's 5th Blog from Bariloche, Argentina
"I had heard that the landscape around Santiago was spectacular. The oldest city in Chile is surrounded by two mountain ranges: the Andes are to the east and the Chilean Coastal Range, much smaller and browner than their eastern counterparts, to the west. But as Los Angeles was, Santiago was settled in a basin where the Pacific winds rush up to the small brown hills on the west and die at the feet of the mountains to the east." —Greg Burns
Meet the Team and subscribe to their RSS feeds: Susan E.B. Schwartz; Bruce Willey; Misty Murphy; Martin Gutmann; Sarah Jane Alexander; Sara Lingafelter; Gregory Bahr; Daniel Holz; Niles Barnes; Emmanuel Lacoste; Greg Burns; Erica Lineberry; Kaare Iverson
 Tech Tip - Technique - HEELS OF STEEL
BY FITZ CAHALL - 6 keys to master-class slab climbing - CLIMBERS TYPICALLY FALL INTO TWO CAMPS when it comes to slabs. Some gag at the connotation of meat-grating, nipple-raking falls. But others say friction climbing is our most elegant discipline, a communion of mental grit and technical grace that rewards brains and finesse, not mindless brawn.
 AMPED
By Andrea Sutherland from Climbing No. 280 / Photos by Claudia Lopez, Federica Valabrega and Kyle Queener - THREE WOUNDED IRAQ WAR VETERANS RECOUNT THEIR NEAR-DEATH STORIES AND TRIUMPHANT CLIMBS BACK HOME - Since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, in 2001 and 2003, respectively, nearly 2 million troops have deployed. More than 5,000 have been killed in action, with roughly 40,000 injured.
 EPINEPHRINE (IV 5.9) - Black Velvet Canyon, Red Rock National Conservation Area, Nevada
IN 1978, JORGE URIOSTE BOLTED HIGH on an airy extension — what would later become Epinephrine —to Joe Herbst and Tom Kaufman’s Original Route (5.9), on the Black Velvet Canyon’s eponymous wall. Then an insect bit him. While Urioste experienced an anaphylactic reaction, he and his wife, Joanne, rapped without delay and hurried to a Las Vegas ER.
 The Shadow Person
In 1916, while the marooned Sir Ernest Shackleton and two crew members fought fiercely for survival on South Georgia, they had the sensation that another, providential person accompanied them — that they “were four, not three,” as Shackleton wrote. This phenomenon — of sensing a beneficiary presence during extreme tribulation — became known as the Third Man Factor ...
 Play Time
“A player in the rock-climbing world is someone who’s there every single day,” says Dave Graham early in Brian Solano’s new DVD, The Players ($19.99, theplayersmovie.com). “And they’re obsessed with climbing on an infi nite level.” To be atop the rock game, like the film’s cast — Graham, Emily Harrington, Joe Kinder, Chris Lindner, Ethan Pringle, Alex Puccio, Lisa Rands, Chris Sharma, and Daniel Woods — you must put climbing before all other masters.
 Natalija Gros - Le Tango Vertical
Video by Film IT and New Partisan Cinema - Slovenian World Cup superstar Natalija Gros is elegantly shown barefoot deep water soloing in Croatia in this short video. The Ljubljana based 25 year old has been climbing since age 6, redpointed 5.14c (Histerija at Misja Pec) and onsighted 5.13b. The goal of the video was emphasize to her seemingly effortless technique, dubbed to Latin rhythms, thus the name "Le Tango Vertical". Need we say more? I think not. Enjoy!
 Dry-Tooling and Ice Climbing in Chamonix, France
Videos by Sébastien Montaz-Rosset - In these two new installments from the "Sweet Lines" series Kora Pesce and Peter Mason have a pre-season dry-tooling session at the Zoo, a steep spot near Sallanches (Chamonix), in the French Alps. And, after the that, the team of Pesce and Mason then head out for a few pitches on the cavernous 90-foot glacial ice at the super-aesthetic Mer de Glace for a bit of pre season ice training.
 The Sends - Full Trailer
A film by Shawn Boye / Tielma Productions - From the Director of Swedish Meatballs comes the story of a two year Odyssey through a land covered in Granite. The adventure begins deep in the Forest of the Steepest Boulders where Peter Bosma encounters a real life Monster, Stefan Rasmussen, reincarnate of ancient Vikings. Narrowly escaping a Duel to the Death, Peter heads West in search of First Ascents high above frigid, Medusa filled, waters. But there is another, the Fearless Rasta, Stefan Wulf, willing to do Combat for Ultimate Glory.
 Everest's "Other Guy"
At the outpost of Sandakphu, along the border of India and Nepal, the snow-capped peak of Kanchenzonga glistens as the rising sun bathes it in fiery orange. But it is the towering pinnacle of Mount Everest, far in the distance and almost forgotten, that first captures the morning light — and the imagination of the local people.
 CLIMBING EVEREST: WHO MAKES IT TO THE TOP?
The odds a person climbing Mount Everest will die in the attempt are 1 in 61.46. On its deadliest day, May 10, 1996, the mountain claimed eight people during a single 24-hour period. That day Jon Krakauer, a journalist on assignment for Outside Magazine, was part of an expedition led by celebrated climber, Rob Hall.
 Photos from the 2009 Yangshuo Climbing Festival
Photos by Rocker - On November 11-15, 2009, China's second annual Yangshuo Climbing Festival, sponsored by The North Face and Black Diamond commenced on Yangshuo's world class limestone with than 500 climbers in attendance. The week included clinics taught by Alex Honnold and Abond plus informative slide shows, a climbing treasure hunt, climbing videos, music, food, beer and socializing. The twin goals of the Yangshuo Climbing Festival are to promote a sense of community among climbers throughout China in a fun, friendly, and casual atmosphere and to support the sustainable development of rock climbing in the Yangshuo area. Visit: www.ysclimbfest.com.cn
 Unclimbed Tibetan Peaks
Photos by Tamotsu Nakamura - The extraordinary Japanese explorer Tamotsu Nakamura and companions have completed another photographic expedition to the Nyainqentanglha East and Kangri Garpo regions of eastern Tibet. Starting from the town of Qamdo, the team completed a 4,800-kilometer counterclockwise loop, with several forays deep into the mountains, over five weeks in October and November, despite unusually tight controls on foreign visitors to Tibet. Nakamura has been exploring the mountains of eastern Tibet and southwestern China since 1990, sometimes twice a year. Read more.
 Fear and Loathing from Bishop to Eldo
Photos by Tara Miller / jitterbugphoto.blogspot.com - Upon arriving in Bishop we were delightfully greeted by the blustery Buttermilk winds that leave you chasing down your crash pad. The kind of wind that gets you bonus points for setting your tent up in, all the while keeping your second eye out for baby rattlesnakes... the air was right, the sky was blue and the climbing had begun. Next stop was the Happy Boulders, before finally heading back east through Boulder's Eldorado Canyon... From walking across the table lands at dusk on the Sierra's east side, to rest days and shenanigans in the fine dive bars of Denver, this trip was one I will always remember.
 DESERT SOLITAIRE
Five hidden gems in hyper-crowded Joshua Tree - TIRED OF ROLLING UP TO JOSHUA TREE’S MEGA-CLASSICS only to find queues five parties deep? Well, so am I — you’d think the park’s 5,000 pitches would make finding solitude simple, but the sad truth is most climbers flock to Josh’s handful of pedestrian classics with high stars and easy access. Still, with a little effort, you’ll find four- and five star pitches far from the hordes.
|
All Things Colorado
Anchor Replacement Initiative
