WP Boulder League 2016 Schedule
2016 Schedule Round 1 NBL qualifier: Tuesday Feb 16th – UCT Round 2 NBL qualifier: Tuesday Feb 23rd – UCT Round 3 NBL qualifier: Friday March 4th – CityROCK Round 4 NBL qualifier: Tuesday March 8th – UCT NBL Nationals: weekend 19th – 20th March – Joburg Round 5: Friday April 1st – CityROCK Round …
Fitz Roy climbed in a day
American alpinists Colin Haley and Andy Wyatt have made an astoundingly fast ascent of Fitz Roy in Patagonia, requiring just 21 hours and 8 minutes to climb the mountain via the Supercanaleta route and descend via the French route and return to the starting point. Read more… Source: planetmountain.com Image: Colin Haley starting up the …
Paige Claassen climbing Sarchasm in Rocky Mountain National Park, USA
There is a fine line between an excuse and an experience. The North Face rock climber, Paige Claassen, finds that line while projecting “Sarchasm”, a high-alpine 5.14 sport-climb outside of her hometown of Estes Park, Colorado, showing us that mental training is often as important as physical preparation. [vsw id=”d87fHOi1dMQ” source=”youtube” width=”550″ height=”400″ autoplay=”no”]
Accepting Risk, Reward & Danger In Ueli’s 82 Summits Challenge
In the final episode of “The Classic Alpinist”, Ueli Steck struggles with the decision of whether or not to continue his project, following the tragic death of his friend and fellow alpinist Martijn Seuren. Accompanied by his good friend and mountain photographer Jonathan Griffith, Ueli decides to get back on track along one of the …
Killswitch: Carlo Traversi – Pinotage (V10), Rocklands
Shameless bouldering porn. One take. No cuts. Classic problems from the world over. Sixty to ninety seconds. “A mainline bouldering fix,” with attitude. [vsw id=”g-l6VPS2Yq4″ source=”youtube” width=”550″ height=”400″ autoplay=”no”]
Catalan Witness the fitness, ~8B+/C, by Chris Sharma
Chris Sharma has made the first ascent of a problem he has been working on for a while in the Cova de Ocell near Barcelona. Catalan Witness the fitness, should weigh in somewhere around ~8B+/C I guess. “I had a great start to the new year by sending the “Catalan Witness the Fitness” at Cova de Ocell …
Adam Ondra – Predator 9a+ (Srbsko, Czech republic)
“Very nice route with awesome sequence in the crux, which is impossible to grade. For me probably 9a/a+, but with no flexibility definitely much harder” [vsw id=”HxB-n-frg0A” source=”youtube” width=”550″ height=”400″ autoplay=”no”]
Alexander Megos repeats First Round, First Minute 9b at Margalef
On 31/12/2015 at Margalef in Spain Alexander Megos made the third ascent of First Round, First Minute 9b, after Chris Sharma and Adam Ondra. On 01/01/2016 he repeated First Ley 9a+ and La Ley Indignata 9a at the same crag. Megos sent First Round, First Minute after five days of effort, 3 in November (during …
Tragedy Strikes Ueli Steck’s 82 Summit Project
Part 3 of “The Classic Alpinist,” a special 4-part series on Ueli Steck’s 82 Summit Project. The Classic Alpinist chronicles the highs and lows of Ueli’s mission to summit all 4,000 meter peaks throughout the Alps in just 80 days during the summer of 2015.
Update on Silvermine West – Table Mountain National Park
Since the fire in March 2015 most of the central section (Silvermine & Tokai) was closed off to visitors for all activities in order for the section rangers team to get to work on post fire rehabilitation projects. This included footpath work, rebuilding of fire damaged structures, closure of illegal paths, law enforcement and monitoring …