climbing — 2/2/12 - Austrian climber David Lama recently free climbed the southeast ridge of Cerro Torre (aka the Compressor Route) in Patagonia shortly after Jason Kruk and Hayden Kennedy's ascent—after the pair chopped more than 100 of Cesare Maestri's bolts from the headwall.
ukclimbing — Chris Webb Parsons is in Hueco Tanks, Texas, with a strong crew, including both Alex Puccio and Shauna Coxsey. Now he has made the 2nd ascent of Daniel Woods' Desperanza, 8C. Desperanza, which is the sit down start to Fred Nicole's Esperanza in the Dirty Martini Cave, is what Chris calls...
ukclimbing — Stuck at work? Want to get psyched for the weekend? Here's a short film of Greg Boswell and Will Sim climbing the second ascent of The Gathering, (VIII,9), Coire an Lochain, Cairngorms. The film was made by Jenny Crook - thanks for sending it in Jenny!
ukclimbing — The 1948 Gervasutti bivouac hut, situated close to the Fréboudze Glacier on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif, has recently been replaced with a "modular, comfortable, technologically sophisticated shelter". However, the hut has met with a lot of local criticism...
climbing — 1/26/12 - Hayden Kennedy and Jason Kruk recently completed a "fair means" ascent of the southeast ridge of Cerro Torre (aka the Compressor Route); the pair climbed without using any of Cesare Maestri's controversial bolts.
ukclimbing — After a month's rest from climbing over the Christmas period, British climber Hazel Findlay nipped down to El Chorro in Spain to regain some lost rock-fitness. On the last day of her trip she redpointed the steep limestone sport route of El Oraculo (The route is graded 8b, but see...
ukclimbing — In this news report Jack Geldard sums up the recent, and not so recent, events on Cerro Torre in Patagonia, from the contested first ascent claim in 1959, through to David Lama's free ascent of the infamous Compressor Route. So the 'Compressor Route' as it has stood for forty years is...
ukclimbing — British climber Tom Bolger has added yet another top level sport route to his CV with an ascent of Fabela pa la enmienda (9a) in the Santa Linya cave, Northern Spain. Tom is one of the UK's leading sport climbers and is currently on very good form. Here we find out...
ukclimbing — 17 Year old Barnaby Ventham has repeated Don't Pierdol at High Rocks on the Southern Sandstone. The problem was put up by Polish climber Peter Wycislik and graded Font 8A+, it has since had one repeat confirming the grade. Barnaby, who is local to the sandstone outcrops, repeated this problem...
climbing.about — While driving across Colorado today, I heard on the radio that an ice climber had died after a fall on Bridalveil Falls near Telluride in southwestern Colorado. This evening my friends Cliff Powers and Brian Shelton with Front Range Climbing Company called me and said that the climber was our...
ukclimbing — After a fantastic autumn of climbing, where she redpointed her first 9a, Pure imagination, Sasha Digiulian took a well earned vacation and went up north to Canada for some skiing. Enough is enough however and just before New year's, she escaped the cold and headed south to Hueco Tanks in...
ukclimbing — Austin Siadak introduces his video: Alf Randell is a self-described "dirtbag" who has spent nearly a decade of his life climbing amongst the soaring sandstone cliffs of Indian Creek, Utah. In November, 2011, I spent some time climbing with Alf and documented his life in "The Creek"...
ukclimbing — This well made video is about an exciting-looking bouldering area in Macedonia - Markovi Kuli. The boulders appear to be large granite blocks with patinas and huecos and look similar to those at Hueco Tanks. Not much more is known about the area although we have been able to figure...
