Video Interview with Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold: “It’s nice to share something that actually matters a little bit…” from Fred Moix on Vimeo.
Ueli Steck New Speed Record Eiger 2015
Ueli Steck, the “Swiss Machine,” has yet again broken the record for a solo speed ascent of the North Face of the Eiger. On November 16, 2015, Steck took advantage of good weather and climbing conditions and pushed for the summit of the classic Heckmair Route (ED2, 1800m, 1938) in a mere 2 hours 22 …
December 2015 – February 2016
Read the editorial and check out the contents of the latest issue. With up-to-date news coverage, training articles, gear reviews, celebrity profiles, technical tips covering a wide variety of subjects, event reports, big glossy pics and enthralling articles. FEATURES REFLECTIONs on MIRROR WALL A new route on the 1 200-metre Mirror Wall, Greenland’s biggest rock …
Reflections on Mirror Wall
words by JOE MÖHLE pic by MATT PYCROFT Reflections – IV, 27/5.12c, A3+ A new route on the 1 200-metre Mirror Wall, Greenland’s biggest rock wall. It has been some months since my return from Greenland. I am sitting in my comfortable home reflecting on those days in the wilderness. My focus is repeatedly pierced …
An African Dream
words by JEROME MOWAT pic by DAVE PICKFORD A VISITOR’S PERSPECTIVE TO CLIMBING IN SA The very bottom of Africa – an entire continent perched on this inverted triangle of land. How did it not just topple over? My understanding of geography has come on a long way since childhood, but my fascination with the …
Odyssey
words by TONY LOURENS pics by FRANK KRETSCHMANN The first ascent of the most difficult route through the Eiger North Face. – 31/8a+, 33 pitches, 1 400 metres The Eiger, the most notorious north face in the Alps and one of the most revered in the world, has always been a hard man’s playground. From …
Memories of Yellowwood – and the first ascent of ‘Newborn’
words & pics by JEREMY SAMSON I have a mixed relationship with Yellowwood. It is both incredibly friendly yet deceptively cruel. After freeing Armageddon Time Direct with Andre [Verkuil] in 1989, we topped out in the last of the evening light. For some reason we ended up trying to descend the wrong gulley and found …
Rock Master Jo’burg 2015
This year the annual Rock Master competition will take place at the new CityROCK gym which has just opened in Johannesburg. See below for more details. Rock Masters Jo’burg 2015 – Competitors list – Mens Ebert Nel Wesley Black James Barnes Dylan Vogt David Wade Mike van der Ham Sheldon Smith Dale Rosser Thomas Slabbert …
Stefano Ghisolfi Climbs Italy’s First 9b Route ‘Lapsus’
Just last week, news emerged that Stefano Ghisolfi had established the first 9b/5.15b route in his home country of Italy. We caught up with Stefano to find out more about the route and to check out the incredible footage of this ground-breaking ascent for Italian climbing. 2015 has seen perhaps more 9b routes climbed than …
REEL ROCK 10 Tour
The year’s best new films from the vertical edge, featuring Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson, Daniel Woods, and a special tribute to the late Dean Potter The REEL ROCK 10 film lineup A line Across the Sky – A Gnarly journey across seven jagged summits and 13,000 vertical feet of climbing. High and Mighty …