Alex Lowe, remembering for his warm heart and visonary climbing, rides high on Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash (VI 5.10 A4+), a new route up Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island; Thin ice and spinddrift avalances are all part of the fun for Steve House, on Frankenchrist (WI 5+), Maple Canyon, Utah; Who said dinosaurs are extinct? Yuji Hirayama onsighting the scales of an unnamed 5.13c at the Astrodome, Japan; John Scott Laybacking Ginsu (5.12b), Hidden Wall, a recently developed cliff near Calaveras Dome, California; Lisa Bedient coming off Jedi Mind Tricks (V4), Pollen Grain Boulders, California and more!
Climbing Magazine Issue no. 238 Mirjam Verbeek of the Netherlands, on pitch 20 of the day, going for the onsight of the Kalymnos poster route Aegialis (7c 5.12d), Dodecanese Island, Greece.
