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Climbing Gallery
Please enjoy these images from the best and most active adventure photographers in the climbing world.
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 Nor'easter - Photo Gallery
Photos by Ben Carlson / bencarlson.net - The Nor'easter powered by Eastern Mountain Sports on September 26-28, 2008 at Tenney Mountain in Plymouth, NH was still fun even though it dumped rain the participants. Everyone there still had a great time with lots of good music from headliners State Radio and Tapes 'n Tapes, as well as opening acts Rustic Overtones, Oneside, The Guts, Adam Ezra, The Dig, Three Tall Pines, Bomb Squad, and a late night after party hosted by Glue. Fore more info visit: noreasterems.com.  24 Hours of Horseshoe Hell - 2008 - Photo Gallery
Photos by Luke Laeser - On Saturday, September 27th, 200 climbers set off on a unique quest to lead as many routes as possible within a 24 hour time period on the bullet sandstone of Horseshoe Canyon Ranch, Arkansas. For the third year, this one-of-a-kind climbing event tested endurance, pain tolerance, and mental stamina as each team pushed it to the maximum in Recreational, Intermediate and Advanced classes. Read more. For more information visit: 24hoursofhorseshoe.com  The Limestone of Yangshuo, China - Photo Gallery
Text and photos by Gerhard Schaar / www.gerhardschaar.com - With about 20 different crags, and about 400 routes, all no further away than a 30 minute mini-bus drive, Yangshuo is the biggest climbing area in China. The rock is limestone, and there are as many as 70,000 Karst towers scattered throughout a region with a size of only 70 square miles. This is one of China's most picturesque places, which makes the city of Yangshuo a top touristic spot. Read More.  Marshall Burke Photography
Marshall Burke joins the crowded market of weekend warriors with friends who climb and has enough disposable income to blow on a fancy digital camera. Marshall searches out the finest splitters with his 8000 closest Bay Area friends in places like: Yosemite, Tuolumne, Joshua Tree, Donner Summit and Indian Creek. During the week he does research at the Program on Food Security at Stanford University. For more of his photos visit: www.stanford.edu/~mburke.  2008 Pine Mountain Pulldown - Photo Gallery
Photos by Sean Naugle / BlackOwlMedia.com - On September 5-7, 2008, hundreds of climbers turned out for an outdoor bouldering competition and festival near Ojai, California. Pine Mountain holds some of the best sandstone bouldering on the West Coast; featuring over 500 established boulder problems and dozens of projects. This year the festival offered camping, live music an outdoor dyno comp, vender booths, a film by Integrity 7and the West Coast premier of the 2008 Real Rock Tour. Visit pinemountaincomp.com for more info.  Colorado Bouldering - RMNP and Mt. Evans
Photos by Emanuel Moosburger - On August 7th 2008 I started a four week trip to visit my friend Daniel Woods in Colorado for some summertime bouldering in Rocky Mountain National Park and Mt. Evans. Shown in this gallery are photos of Riddles in the Park and The Hobbit at Upper Chaos Canyon, The Automator and Tommy's Arete in Lower Chaos Canyon, No More Greener Grass at Mt. Evans, some wildlife in the park, plus a few shots of the beatiful alpine landscape. Special thanks to Steve and Carol Woods!  2008 Reel Rock Film Tour Premiere at the Boulder Theatre - Photo Gallery
Photos courtesy of the reelrockfilmtour.com - The thousand-seat Boulder Theater was packed to the gills on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 for the launch of the 2008 REEL ROCK Film Tour and to celebrate the release of the new film, The Sharp End. Huge thanks to all the locals who came out. Windstopper and Gore-tex had their mobile weather machine there, and 99.5 The Mountain radio from Denver was broadcasting live. -sq.jpg) An Adventure in the Dolomites
Photos by Tony Scott and Enrico Maioni / guidedolomiti.com - During my many years in the mountains and my numerous trips abroad, I’ve had the good fortune of living quite a few adventures. Today I’ll tell you my most recent adventure, so you think about how an alpine guide earns a living, especially if you think he does so in the most casual manner ... Read more about this adventure.  The Annapurna Circuit
Photos by Marie Jo Valdeyron - World traveler Marie Jo's passion is trekking, mountain climbing and photography. Recently she traveled to Nepal and completed the famed Annapurna Circuit. The route takes most trekkers about twenty days passing by small villages, stunning landscapes and massive 8000 meter peaks. Marie Jo lives in the southern French town of Montpellier. For more adventures visit: dharmaquest.com  Climbing.com Covershows - 2008
Updated - 9/03/08 A continually growing collection of covershots from many great photographers and adventurers that graced the homepage in 2008. Images from Photopost, Hot Flashes, Photo Galleries, Events, Extended Features ... I would like to thank all of our dedicated contributors and uploaders for making Climbing.com what it is today. —Luke Laeser — Climbing.com Online Editor  The Bugaboo Experience - Photo Gallery
Photos by Jeff Zimmerman / JeffZimmermanPhotography.com - Deep in the Purcell mountain range of British Columbia lies the Buagboo Provincial Park, a remote and rugged alpine wonderland about 4-5 hours from the US border (or Calgary), and about 50 kilometers off Highway 93. Before departing into the woods, visitors must wrap their car with chicken wire and prop it with wooden boards and rocks to protect it from the rubber eating porcupines. Read the trip report.  Photography of Frank Kretschmann
For eight years Kretschmann has been working as a professional photographer shooting fashion, people, industry and still lifes. He has always been fascinated by all styles of climbing, and though his travels has visited many parts of the world like: sport climbing all over Europe and Morocco, alpine adventures in the Alps and Peru and of course the big walls of Yosemite. But his passion for climbing still lies at his home crag, Germany's Frankenjura, the place that has influenced him the most. Visit funst.de for more  New River Gorge, West Virginia
Photos by Pablo Durana - The "New" is one of the premier climbing destinations on the east coast with thousands of good sandstone pitches from steep sport climbs to splitter crack routes. Shown here are some photos of the steep classics like Apollo Reed, The Pod, Tobacco Road and more at the Summersville Lake area. Also in this gallery are a few routes from the gorge's popular Kaymoor crag.  2008 Mammut Bouldering Championships - Salt Lake City, Utah
Photos by Dave Anderson / dave-anderson.com - See top athletes: Chris Sharma, Ethan Pringle, Guillaume Glairon Mondet, Daniel Woods, Tyler Landman, Alex Puccio, Alex Johnson, Sydney McNair, Lisa Rands, Sierra Blair-Coyle and more. The competition, presented by Eastern Mountain Sports, began with a qualifying round with over 100 competitors at SLC's Front Climbing Club. The comp is held as part of the Outdoor Retailer summer trade show. Read More. See full results at boulderingcomps.com.  A Week in the Bugaboos - Photo Gallery
Photos by Luke Laeser and Mike Brumbaugh - Mikey and I finally made a trip to the famed Bugaboos within the mighty Purcell Mountains at the end of July, 2007. Mikey’s been a good friend since we met sport climbing at Rifle in Colorado, and we’d been talking about taking a trip up to this fantastic British Columbian spot after years of drooling over photos. The well traveled trade routes from Steck and Roper’s 50 Classic Climbs have been one of my passions since I first started climbing in high school, and now, I was finally headed for the splitter granite cracks of the Beckey-Chouinard (West Buttress) on South Howser and the East Ridge of Bugaboo Spire. Read the trip report. Visit Super Natural British Columbia.  2008 Mammut Bouldering Championships - Salt Lake City, Utah
Photos by Justin Roth - Chris Sharma and Alex Puccio are the winners of this year's Mammut Bouldering Championships. Sharma took his second victory in a row at the annual comp, held at night in a spectacular open-air setting atop a hotel parking garage in downtown Salt Lake. The competition, presented by Eastern Mountain Sports, began with a qualifying round with over 100 competitors at SLC's Front Climbing Club. Read More. See full results at boulderingcomps.com.  Garrett Grove Photography
For Garrett Grove, his pursuit of climbing began on Mount Baker as a freshman at Western Washington University. After that climb, Garrett needed an outlet to share the experiences he encountered outside, and photography was the answer. For the last seven years, he's been lugging around a camera everywhere: up chimneys, through water and in the snow — just to take a picture at the right moment — a moment that captures the essence of the day. Visit GarrettGrove.com for more.  Faces of the Zillertal - 2008 Petzl RocTrip
Photos by Anna Piunova — mountain.ru - The Tyrolean area known as the Zillertal is the alpine jewel of Austria and was the site for this years Petzl RocTrip on July 23-27, 2008. In this photo set, Russian photographer Anna Piunova has captured the spirit of the RocTrip athletes: Lynn Hill, Cedric Lachat, Said Belhaj, Eugeny Krivosheytsev, Julia Abramchuk, Chris Sharma, Dani Andrada, Loik Gaidioz, Violaine Beuque, Jerome Pouvreu, Jacob Schubert, Sean McColl and Markus Bock.  Photos from the 2008 Squamish Mountain Festival
Photos by Angela Percival of ARC'TERYX Equipment Inc. — Everything aligned for the 2nd annual Squamish Mountain Festival on July 16 to 20, 2008. We couldn't have asked for better weather, bluebird and nary a cloud. Our speakers and films were unique and both inspiring and entertaining to the participants who came from near and far to enjoy the Squamish Climbing vibe. Click here to the recap article from the 2008 Squamish Mountain Festival; Visit: squamishmountainfestival.com for more information.  Squamish Mountain Festival
Photos courtesy of squamishmountainfestival.com — The SQUMF thrilled locals and visitors again this summer with an exciting mix of films, clinics, dyno competitions and guest speakers: Dave MacLeod, Ed Cooper, Matt Maddaloni, Majka Burhardt, Sonnie Trotter, Micah Dash and Cedar Wright. The festival took place at various locations around Squamish, BC on July 16 to 20, 2008. Click here to the recap article from the 2008 Squamish Mountain Festival  Amongst the Chaos - Photo Gallery
Photos by Gerri Kier — www.educationelevated.org - The mission for Education Elevated was to raise money to build a new library for an unmapped village school in Chyangba Village (a remote village near Mt. Everest 8 – 10 miles northeast of Phaplu, Nepal) by trekking to Everest Base Camp, and finally summiting Island Peak (20,305ft). Read the trip report by Julie Lillenkamp  John Vallejo Photography
Photos by John Vallejo - Amidst graduating from law school and now working as full-time as an attorney in San Francisco, Vallejo's been climbing and shooting in China, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, Yosemite, Bishop, and a number of other places over the past year. He claims to be fairly new to the photography world [although you'd never guess it] and prefers a simple camera setup. Check out his blog for more at: johnclimbrok.blogspot.com  Jesse Von Fange - East Coast
Photos by Jesse Von Fange - East coast rock and ice climbs from the New River Gorge, WV; Old Rag Mountain, VA; Shenadoah National Park, VA; Red River Gorge, KY; Seneca Rocks, WV; and the Salmon River Gorge, NY. Visit: Fotos & Times of a Blue Ridger — vonfang.blogspot.com for more.  The Citadels of Sinai Granite - Gallery
Photos by Alexander Orlov — web.mac.com/aorlov - The Sinai “half island” closely connects Africa with the Middle East. This half island is wedged between the Gulf of Suez to the west and the Gulf of Aqaba to the east. The charming landscape of this “half island” is truly the most beautiful place of Egypt. A desert plateau makes up the north, while the mountains of the south are built from the crystal rock and painted the whole spectrum of colours. Located here is the Silk Road, where merchants transferred their goods from the Far East to Egypt and farther. READ MORE  Greg Mionske Photography
Boulder, Colorado, photogapher Greg Mionske's passion is bouldering and landscape photography in places like Rocky Mountain National Park and Bishop, California. Shown here is a collection of photos from Spring 2008 at the Gunks, Buttermilks, and climbs near his home in Boulder, Colorado. For more photos visit: GregMionske.com |
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