Watch Competition Training with Adam Ondra
Watching a climbing competition as a spectator, it’s easy to forget the immense amount of work and preparation that athletes put into readying themselves for this type of event. Routines are worked out...
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Climbing Fitness #6: Pain in the Neck
This is the sixth installment of a new series on how to stretch and strengthen those climbing muscles. It is brought to you by Ashley Edwards and Kate Evans, co-founders of City Yogis in Toronto....
View ArticleWatch Climber Isaac Caldiero’s Ninja Warrior Win
Isaac Caldiero is the first person to win American Ninja Warrior. It took seven seasons and thousands of competitors to attempt the course before Caldiero and Geoff Britten became the first athletes to...
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A Basecamp Radio Conversation with Hazel Findlay
Hazel Findlay is one of the world’s most daring rock climbers and has a number of firsts to her name. Findlay grew up climbing with her dad on the sea cliffs of Pembroke, South Wales. She has become...
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Sachi Amma Sends Jungle Boogie 5.15
Sachi Amma has sent his summer 5.15 project in Ceuse, France. Amma announced today on his Instagram, “I sent Jungle Boogie [5.15a], I still cannot believe it happened. I had one last chance, it was a...
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Big Sends by Nina Caprez and Barbara Zangerl on Huge Alpine 5.14
Nina Caprez and Barbara Zangerl have sent one of the original hard alpine sport routes in Switzerland. The two cutting-edge women have constantly pushed the bar higher for female ascents in the alpine....
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The 2015 SAS Golden Scrub Brush Awards Nominations
The time has come again for nominations for this year’s Squamish Access Society (SAS) Golden Scrub Brush awards. The 2014 Golden Scrub Brush Awards’ poster. This year’s awards will cover routes...
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Seb Bouin Climbs New 5.15!
Seb Bouin has climbed a stunning new route in the south of France that goes at 5.15a. Bouin is known for his hard sends, including Chilam Balam 5.15b, Le Complexe du Playboy 5.15a and La Madone. Seb...
View ArticleA Video Interview With One of the World’s Top Solo Aid Climbers
Check out this cool video of Spanish climber Silvia Vidal as she discusses her passion for solo aid climbing. Silvia Vidal is one of the world’s leading solo aid climbers. She has soloed some of the...
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Tommy Caldwell on TEDx Talks: What Are You Up Against?
Tommy Caldwell is one of the world’s leading climbers and he recently appeared on TEDx. Tommy’s talk raises an interesting question: why do some people experience post-traumatic growth? He credits his...
View ArticleWatch ‘Yuji Hirayama – Road to Slovenia’
Yuji Hirayama is one of the best climbers in the world. His amazing life of climbing started when he was 14 years old. He quit school and decided to become professional climber. The post Watch ‘Yuji...
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Happy 71st Birthday Reinhold Messner!
Climbing pioneer Reinhold Messner turned 71 on Sept. 17. The climber is arguably the most famous mountaineers of all time. Messner made a name for himself early in his climbing career. Between 1950 and...
View ArticleWatch Mountain Biker Ride a Highline
Belgian mountain biking champ Kenny Belaey recently rode along a 20-metre long, 120-metre-high slackline. The four-time Union Cycliste Internationale world champ’s ride took place in La Plagne, a ski...
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The 2015 Banff Book Festival Finalists Announced
In less than two months, the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival will take place at The Banff Centre in the Rockies. While pre-screeners and film jurors work their way through the hundreds of entered...
View ArticleFrank Slide Bouldering Top 50 Episode One
The Frank Slide near Crowsnest Pass is one of Alberta’s top bouldering spots. Earlier this year, we ran a feature in Gripped magazine about the popular destination. Calgary photographer Tim Banfield...
View ArticleWatch an Ascent of a Big Rockies 5.12 called East End Boys
East End Boys, 5.12, is a classic Yamnuska route first climbed in the 1980s by Bill Betts and Steve DeMaio. The route climbs 200 metres up an esthetic crack system. This short video by IFMGA Mountain...
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Hard Rockies Send by Zak McGurk at Acephale
In the summer of 2014, Josh Muller sent a Lev Pinter project at Acephale and Zak McGurk just got the second ascent. By Josh Muller Zak (Midnight) McGurk took down the unrepeated Acephale line called...
View ArticleWatch Three Dudes Climb Three Alaskan Classics
The three dudes are Keenan Waeshle, Colin Simon and Kurt Ross and the three classics are some of the most sought after routes in America. On the Mooses Tooth (no, there is no apostrophe in the proper...
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New Six-Pitch Route in Squamish
There is a new six-pitch route at the popular Shannon Falls area in Squamish. Jean-Marc Savoie, Ryan Larkin and Paul Greenwood have climbed a new six-pitch 5.11a at Shannon Falls called Charlotte’s...
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The Apocalypse Cave is Difficult New Rockies Crag
Evan Hau has been hard at work developing a new crag in the Bow Valley. The Apocalypse Cave is on Grotto Mountain in the Bow Valley. Grotto Mountain has hundreds of pitches of quality climbing, from...
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