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Climbing RSS FeedsKendal Mountain Festival - 9:00am, Kendal venues...Feed Source: www.ukclimbing.com Reel Rock Tour - Leicester... Reel Rock Tour - 3pm, The Phoenix Arts, Leicester.... Rab Junior Bouldering Series - 11.30am The Edge, Sheffield... Kendal Mountain Festival - 9:00am, Kendal venues... Peak Area Meeting - Grouse Pub, Froggatt Edge, 7.30pm... Dundee MFF - Tomaz Humar - 1930 hrs. Tower Lecture Theatre, Dundee University... Gav Symonds Masterclass/Lecture - Revolution climbing Centre. From 5pm... Earth, Sea & Sky by Tim Emmett - 7pm at Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London... An Evening With Andy Cave & Andy Kirkpatrick - 8pm Buxton Opera House, Buxton... Dundee MFF - Films & Dave MacLeod - 1900 hrs. Bonar Hall, Dundee University... Dundee MFF - Films & Dave "Heavy" Whalley - 0930 hrs. Bonar Hall, Dundee University... Dundee MFF - Films & Dave "Heavy" Whalley - 1400 hrs. Bonar Hall, Dundee University... Dundee MFF - Films & Reinhold Messner - 1900 hrs. Bonar Hall, Dundee University... Best Of Kendal Film Night - Showroom Cinema, Sheffield... Climbing Food Review: Clif ZBars - Today’s guest post is from Ryan Wanger, a climber who writes at The Reluctant Eater.
Clif. The name is synonymous with climbing (perhaps it’s the logo?). If you’re like me, then you’ve always enjoyed Clif Bars, but rarely buy them because frankly, you’re a cheapskate. Nutritious? Yep. All natural? Absolutely. Tasty? You betcha! In fact, it’s [ ]... Adam Ondra Repeats Open Air 9a+ - Adam Ondra has made the second ascent of Alex Huber’s 55m long Open Air (9a+) at Schleier Wasserfall, Austria. Huber established the route in 1996 and it took Ondra nine attempts over five days for the recent send. (via UKClimbing.com, Czech Climbing, and Momentum Video)... Better Way to Mark Your Climbing Gear - The GearFlogger reviews an insanely useful accessory for climbing gear. The Mark epoxy from Boulder Based Designs is
like a condom for your gear: a prophylactic to prevent that expensive piece from walking away, accidentally or otherwise. Just mix the two ingredients and have about a 30 minute working time to apply to gear. 24 hours [ ]... Adventure Film Festival Celebrates Five Years - Entering its fifth year, the 2008 Adventure Film Festival starts today and ends November 11 in Boulder, Colorado. Focusing on all types of adventure, the festival bills itself as an international venue for independent films.
“I’ve been exposed to an incredible world of adventure through years of expeditions and work in outdoor media,” said founder Jonny [ ]... Online Bouldering Guide for Boone, North Carolina - Recently I had a brief Twitter discussion with @WasatchGirl who is currently on an extended climbing trip. She was in Boone and wondering if there was any printed guidebook available. From my last visit I didn’t think there was any, but I did remember a few resources online that I had bookmarked.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find [ ]... Ice Climbing Season is Fast Approaching - When I lived in the Washington DC area, one of the (few) benefits was being able to get cheap flights on Southwest to New Hampshire. This allowed us to take trips for ice climbing in the White Mountains.
I attended the Mt. Washington Valley Ice Festival numerous times and had a blast. The ice climbing there [ ]... John Muir and the Yosemite Museum - The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on John Muir, his first ascent of Cathedral Peak in 1869, and the recent exhibit in the Yosemite Museum called “Granite Frontiers: A Century of Yosemite Climbing.”
Muir was Yosemite’s first climbing bum — a rara avis then, but a species that is not at all endangered today. [ ]... Chris Sharma Slide Show at the New River Gorge - For those if you in the Southeast or Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S., there’s an upcoming event you won’t want to miss.
Chris Sharma is coming to the New River Gorge on Saturday, October 25th, 2008. He’ll be there for a slide show and the Dead Point Magazine Launch.
From the New River Mountain Guides:
Come down for [ ]... New Release of ClimbingVibe - Since the release last month of ClimbingVibe, we’ve received a lot of traffic and numerous suggestions on how to make the site better for climbers.
Many of those improvements have been implemented and today we’re launching a new release that features the following:
easier voting - logged in users can now vote on either the home page [ ]... Hans Florine and Yuji Hiriyama Set New Speed Record on The Nose - Hans Florine and Yuji Hiriyama broke their own speed record on The Nose, El Capitan in Yosemite by 6 minutes recording a new time of 2:37:05 on Sunday, October 12.
The Nose, which celebrates its 50 anniversary this year, is one of the world’s most famous rock climbs and was first ascended over a five week [ ]... Hardest Boulder Problems in America - B3Bouldering has created a new resource where the hardest boulder problems in America will be tracked. He’s encouraging anyone that has additional info to contact him or leave a comment.... How to make a prusik knot - The prusik hitch may be pretty basic for many readers, but there are certain essential knots that every climber should know.
The American Alpine Institute has posted a great video illustrating the prusik knot.
Alpinists keep a variety of technical tools in their back-pockets. One of the most important tools is the prusik hitch. The prusik hitch [ ]... Trailer for the upcoming Echo Wall climbing film - Echo Wall is an upcoming climbing film by Dave MacLeod focusing on cutting edge trad climbing on the north face of Ben Nevis in Scotland.
The following is a trailer of the film due late October 2008:... Bouldering Colorado Slideshow with Bob Horan - Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder hosted a slideshow last night presented by Bob Horan, author of the new and highly controversial guidebook Bouldering Colorado.
Honestly, I was hoping some of the book’s most vocal detractors would show up for an open debate (hopefully more entertaining than the VP debate happening simultaneously), but there was a relatively small [ ]... Akito Matsushima repeats Memento (8C+/V16) - Some breaking news - Twitter user @yozyozyoz from Tokyo reports to All Climbing that Japanese climber Akito Matsushima repeated Memento (8C+/V16).... Video of Chris Sharma bouldering in the Ozarks - Following yesterday’s post on Chris Sharma sending Jumbo Love, I stumbled on a video of Sharma bouldering in the Ozarks (via VideoClimb.com).... Announcing ClimbingVibe - Today I’m announcing the launch of ClimbingVibe, a community driven links site for climbing, bouldering, and mountaineering related articles and blog posts.
ClimbingVibe quickly lets you find the most relevant and interesting climbing content. When I started blogging on All Climbing, there were surprisingly few climbing blogs. Now there are hundreds and it’s tough to read [ ]... Chris Sharma sends Jumbo Love (5.15b) at Clark Mountain - Chris Sharma has sent his project at Clark Mountain called Jumbo Love, suggesting a rating of 5.15b and likely the hardest route he’s ever done.
From Climbing Narcissist:
Jumbo Love begins with 60 ft. of 5.12d climbing followed by 100 ft of steep and bouldery 5.14c. THEN you get to the hard part which is followed [ ]... Review of the Reel Rock Tour Premier - You know you’re watching a great climbing film when your palms are sweating and you start trying to chalk up. Most of the films presented last night at the Reel Rock Tour gave me that reaction and I was pleasantly surprised. With so many trailers and clips floating around the Internet, I think I [ ]... Reel Rock Tour kicks off this week - The Reel Rock Tour kicks off in Boulder, Colorado this Wednesday. The third annual edition of the event will eventually hit over 80 cities to show climbing films including those from Sender Films and Big UP Productions.
This year there is also a filmmaking competition, where anyone could submit their best three minute climbing film.
I’ve already [ ]... Copyright © 2008, Mulitple Sources of Income. All Rights Reserved. |