Its Almost Blue Ice Season
Enter Now to Win Screws and a Harness from the Ultralight Pros.
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Enter Now to Win Screws and a Harness from the Ultralight Pros.
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The route lay unrepeated, accruing rumors, for 18 years.
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We are more susceptible to injuries the longer we climb. Follow this movement screen to understand when and how to push your training load.
In this week’s whipper Jess Ursin has quite the surprise while attempting Shield Maiden (5.12c) at Viento State Park, Oregon. At Shield Maiden‘s tenth bolt, Ursin grabs the clipping hold and pulls up slack.
A 20-member expedition team was caught in a massive avalanche on October 1. Four climbers are confirmed dead, with two others still missing.
This is a hack that helps with a smooth rappel setup and is especially helpful for long and double-rope raps. One of the trickiest parts of long rappels is pulling up the weight of the rope to thread...
In 2013, I pressed my palms against the smooth granite of The Book of Hate, a 5.13 stemming corner just above Yosemite’s Merced River. Though the footholds and fingerlocks had vanished, my palms and feet stuck perfectly to the blank corner walls.
Might as well be soloing with this belayer completely out to lunch.
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Savor this five-pitch route outside Grand Junction, Colorado.
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Sender Films’ Pete Mortimer shares his secrets to creating fresh, exciting climbing media.
Train on a train, at a desk, in the car, in a chair, on the plane. Seriously. You'll actually see benefits.
We’ve all seen them: Those Mountain Project posts about a loose bolt someone came across, or worse, a bolt that’s fallen out of the rock: “Hey, someone should fix this!” I was up in the Flatirons, Colorado...
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