One Hundred Sheep For A Wife

They can earn one sheep a month, so that’s 8 years until they can afford a wife. I know guys who are paying for wives way longer than 8 years.

Prisoners of the Himalayas from Louis Meunier on Vimeo.

No Wonder There’s Good Climbing Here

This guys are wingsuiting near Monterrey, Mexico. Look at the rock cliffs they speed past.

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Caught Upside Down In Snow

Quite a video shot by a snowboarder as he fell upside down nto a tree well and thought he was going to die. He managed to get his cell phone out of his pocket after a few minutes and call his wife. Who thought he was joking. She called the ski patrol, gave them his phone number. They called him and he described exactly where he was. After about 30 minutes, they pulled him out. At the very end of the interview with him on this video, he breaks out into tears recalling how he thought he was going to die.

 

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You Have To Find The Right Kind Of Dog

Buddy the dog is not interested in Dogboarding. But you might have the right dog to do this new sport.

Dogboarding from DANIELS on Vimeo.

Like To Run?

How about you and 11 of your closest friends run a relay race from Winona to St. Paul? Details here.:

“What you will need to have a good Ragnar

• 12 Runners (6 runners for an Ultra team)
• 2 vans
• An average team pace around 11 minute miles (we have tools to help with this)
• The ability to provide three volunteers if you live within 100 miles of the race. Learn More about volunteer requirements.”

100th Anniversary Of Devil’s Lake Park

Here’s the official directory of Baraboo, WI  which is full of ads but also the history and lots of historical photos of Devil’s Lake State Park in WI.

 

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Climbing In Cuba

Here is the last of 4 videos about climbing in Cuba where it is illegal. Looks like you can get a good workout plowing the field with oxen. Plus, they have great cigars down there. The other 3 videos he made, are here.

Cuba Chapter4_The Life of Leo from renan ozturk on Vimeo.

Training On A Plane

When you’re on a plane and you’re training to climb the world’s tallest buildings, this might help keep you in shape.

And, apparently, his training paid off. He just finished his climb of the world’s tallest skyscraper in Dubai.

20 Years Frozen In Ice

Jeff Lowe’s backpack was left by him 50 feet below the summit ridge of the Eiger in 1991. It was found and dug out of the ice a few days ago by another climber. Details here.

Ice Climbing Vs Rock Climbing

Will Gadd has a lot to say about the differences between ice and rock climbing – especially the ice climbing shown in a video he has on his site. Here’s one comment about falling while lead ice climbing I was surprised to read:

“In 30 years of ice climbing I've caught exactly one lead fall (Guy Lacelle of all people), and never fallen on lead. Most of the people I climb with are the same; a few fell off once or maybe twice early in their careers before figuring out it was a really bad idea…”

Towers Of Chad

No, not the guy named Chad, the country named Chad. Unclimbed towers full of choss and adventure.

Escape From A Prison Camp, Climb A Mountain, Then Go Back To Prison

I just finished a book about three Italians held in a British POW camp during WWII in Kenya, who decided, out of pure boredom, to climb the nearby Mt Kenya (17,200’). They had been prisoners for two years and “In order to break the monotony of [prison] life one had only to start taking risks again..”  So they did.

They made their own ice axes, crampons, tent, and sleeping bags from scraps around the camp and saved up food for several weeks. Beside the danger of climbing the mountain – which had only been climbed 5 times before – they had to walk miles through lion, elephant, rhino and buffalo terrain. (On a previous climb of the mountain, a climber had been pulled from his tent by a lion and had his leg chewed off.) They had a close encounter with a bull elephant but weren’t attacked by any animals.

The only information they had on the mountain was from an old magazine article which was smuggled into the camp, and from a label on a can of meat which had a drawing of Mt. Kenya.

After 18 days on the mountain, they reached the lower summit and were turned back by weather and lack of food. Before they escaped, they knew they would have to return to the camp because it was just too far to fully escape captivity. So they sneaked out of camp one night and 18 days later, they sneaked back in. But they were discovered and had to spend 28 days in solitary. And three more years in the prison camp. A flag they left on the summit was found by a later party which validated their story. A Wikipedia version of their story is here.

How To Prepare For An Adventure Race

This is supposed to be a weekly series about 3 women and 1 man training for an adventure race that’s scheduled for July.

Mandatory Equipment: A web series - Trailer from 1iOpen Productions on Vimeo.

Devils Lake

Climbing Magazine has an article on Devils Lake that includes this shot of the famous Cleopatra’s Needle. Which looks super hard but is rated a moderate 5.4. (I climbed there many times and it is Taylors Falls on steroids. Great place.)

Climbing In Swim Suits

They are not always wearing swim suits in this video of climbing in Thailand, but it looks like you could wear them all the time.