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A Climbing Wall for the Modern Living Room

by steve casimiro on May 8, 2012 · 3 comments

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Designers are paid to be creative, not practical, and sometimes the products they conceptualize are absurd flights of fancy. Which is great, cause it sparks the imagination and can lead to real innovation. When it comes to sports gear, though, form doesn’t always follow function, as you can see in this subdued but wildly clever [...]

Sasha DiGiulian Makes 5.14d Look…Slightly Less Hard

by michael frank on May 3, 2012 · 0 comments

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Sasha DiGiulian is a badass. This is her second 5.14d, a repeat of Chris Sharma’s Era Vella in Margalef, Spain, but what we love about this super short vid is that it’s just pure raw footage, no noise at all other than 19-year-old DiGiulian busting hard for a route that she doesn’t make — not [...]

Steph Davis On Dealing With Fear

by steve casimiro on April 4, 2012 · 1 comment

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When is fear healthy and when is it destructive? When is it the voice of common sense and when is it the wedge that cleaves you from security? Climber and BASE jumper Steph Davis addresses the issues surrounding fear’s head games plays in a conversation with Prana’s Mindfulness Ambassador Mark Coleman. (Yes, mindfulness ambassador.) I [...]

Americans Win World’s Top Mountaineering Prize (Video)

by michael frank on April 3, 2012 · 0 comments

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It sounds better in French — Piolet d’Or — than Golden Ax Awards, but no matter what language it probably sounds plenty to sweet however you say it to American climbers Mark Richey, Steve Swenson, and Freddie Wilkinson for bagging the second-highest unclimbed peak in the world.

The Bouldering Baby

by steve casimiro on April 2, 2012 · 10 comments

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I know, I know. Some of you are already mustering up a good head of self righteousness that this 22-month-old toddler girl is bouldering without a rope or spotter or anti-gravity device. Let’s just appreciate her incredible natural technique, okay? She’s clearly done this before, clearly is comfortable on the wall, and clearly, let’s face [...]

Fresh Goods: Stonelick Bouldering Crash Pad

by brendan leonard on March 26, 2012 · 0 comments

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Some ideas make you slap your forehead at the same time you say, “That’s brilliant.” Like how you might eliminate the dead spot in between foam pieces in a crash pad. Brand-new company Stonelick created the patent-pending “Step Hinge,” a feature on its Boom, Boom Royale, Yose (see here), and Gordita pads that essentially notches [...]

Links We Like, March 15, 2012

by steve casimiro on March 15, 2012 · 0 comments

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IF YOU PICKED UP A PAIR OF DYNAFIT’S RADICAL BINDINGS in November and have been super stoked at how insanely light they are, and have otherwise had zero issues, sweet. But if you’re one of .17% (what, that’s like 50 people on the planet, tops?) who’ve had the heel lift mechanism crack or bend, know [...]

Robert Jasper Pushes the Boundaries of Dry Tooling

“Dry tooling” has always sounded vaguely nasty. In fact, it’s an incredibly interesting, provocative, controversial, and radical form of climbing. The first time I did it, it seemed both like cheating and an entirely different sport — the world of escalation open to previously unimaginable forms. And here, with this video, you can see just [...]

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Climate Change Could Make Mount Everest Unclimbable — Apa Sherpa

Mount Everest is dangerous to climb, but it might become far more so in the future. That’s the word from a man who should know, Apa Sherpa, who’s reached the summit of the planet a record 21 times. Now Apa — who is taking part in a grueling, 120-day, 1,100-mile walk dubbed the Climate Smart [...]

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The Double BASE Jump Onto Fisher Towers

In a move reminiscent of the enchainments taking place around Chamonix in the 1980s, base jumper Mario Richard leaped off a cliff called Dragon’s Nest outside Moab, sailed to the top of the King Fisher, the biggest of the Fisher Towers, high-fived some waiting friends, and then jumped off the King to land in the [...]

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Ultra-Sick: The 5.15a Single-Digit ‘Night of the Witch’

brightcove.createExperiences(); If you climb, there’s a change you’ll last through the entire 6:37 clip of Iker Pou conquering the heinous, overhanging Nit de Bruixes (Witch’s Night) in Margalef, Spain. But you don’t ever have to have dipped into a chalkbag to be blown away. Watch from 3:30 to 4:19 to witness something supernatural. Pou repeatedly [...]

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The List: 34 Climbing Route Names You Can’t Say to Your Mom

One of the most clever and crude climbing route names ever is in Colorado — Eldorado Canyon’s “Your Mother,” a 5.12d sport route on the west aspect of the Bastille. The possibilities for conversation for men giggling like high school freshmen are endless: “I was on Your Mother last Saturday,” “I just got off Your [...]

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Have Altitude Sickness? Blame Your DNA, Not Your Fitness

Most of us have been there — up a mountain, going high, going fast, only to be debilitated (or inconvenienced) by the misery of altitude-induced headaches, sleeplessness, and perhaps nausea. And what many of us have discovered by experience is now being confirmed by science: How well you do at altitude has little to do [...]

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Great Mountains of the World: Cerro Torre

The Eiger was first climbed in 1858, the Matterhorn in 1865. Mt. Everest might have been climbed as early as 1924. The summit of Antarctica’s highest peak, Mt. Vinson, was conquered in 1966. But it was not until 1974 that men stood atop Cerro Torre — five years after the American flag had been pinned [...]

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Russians Abandon K2 Winter Attempt After Team Member Dies

The talent-packed team of Russians attempting a bold winter ascent of K2 suffered the death of Vitaly Gorelik today in base camp, apparently from a heart attack, and has decided to end its expedition. “Today on 11-30 am Vitaly Gorelik died in BC. Condolences to Vitaly’s family and friends from the whole our team,” they [...]

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