Wild Country has a series of six videos as well as PDF files on how to climb different sized cracks here. This is the most recent video on how to tape.
Wild Country Crack School - Episode 6 - Taping - By Tom Randall And Pete Whittaker from Wild Country on Vimeo.
In Norway, they converted an abandoned hydro electrical power station into a via ferrata. Looks fun.
I suspected that GriGri was a derivation of the Voodoo word “gris gris".” But I didn’t know “belay” came from Old English and “arete” from Greek.
Three women are hiking the length of South America. They started last October in southern Patagonia and are now in Peru. This is one of the trails they hiked. And one of the rivers they crossed.Their blog is here.
There are 4 climbers in the photo below about to be swallowed up by an avalanche on Annapurna. They all survived by ducking under an overhanging ice cliff. Full story here.
This seems like good advice on caring for your climbing harness – looking for wear spots (as in the photo below) and how to clean it.
An article about Alex Honnold’s recent link-up in Yosemite. The video below is of him climbing on Mt Watkins. Almost all of the 75 pitches were in the 5.10-5.11 range. Below is some rough footage of his climb on Mt. Watkins. It gave me the willies to see him hanging onto a small crimp while reaching for his daisy chain to clip into a bolt.
A quote from an 8 year-old Pakastani boy whose father was a porter killed in the 2008 K2 climbing accident. This quote is from a new book about the accident with a book review here.
A shirt to help you perform better by forcing you to stand up straighter. If this had been around a few years earlier, there would have been no hunchback in that church in France.
We stayed at a campground in the Black Hills which has very high benches. These benches are so high, Ron’s short legs can’t reach the ground when he’s seated. So he got Killer to teach him how to enjoy sitting up so high.
One of these people is a pro climber who knows how to dress – he’s wearing red. The others, don’t know how to dress properly for climbing. See if you can find him.
Let’s zoom in to spot them.
Oh, wait she’s on the top of the car. She just invented a new sport “Car Top Soloing.”
Here’s Killer getting a spot from Marianna:
