Don’t have a partner? Are your palms sweaty? Need rock hard contact? Then check out the new Roxxx Channel:

On October 6th, 2010, Chris Swetland and Aaron Kristiansen put up a new route called “Face to Face,” a 5.10d sport route on the Raspberry Wall, Arrow Lakes. Just as he started the route Chris kicked a hornet’s nest and he and Aaron were swarmed. Turn up the volume to enjoy the profanity and hilarity.

Marcus Norman is the Kootenay climbing scene’s greatest tourist. Hailing from Calgary, the guy visits our neck of the woods regularly with his wire brush and throws down new V7 boulder problems at the drop of a chalk ball. Lately he’s been playing at the Pass Creek bouldering area. For directions on how to get [...]

Jyoti Raju is known as the “monkey king” in his native India. Here we see him entertaining visitors at the Chitradurga Fort, about 120 km from the bouldering mecca of Hampi. Check out the sweet “reach-between-the-legs inversion move” at 0.45 seconds.

My mountain spectre was backed onto a bank of cloud, hovering over Mulvey Basin, surrounded by a rainbow halo. His legs must have been 40 feet high and his torso was a blob of shadow topped by a miniscule head cast in nimbus luminescence.

Check out this British Schoolboy’s invention – the perfect wall crawling device. Just make sure you bring a really long extension cord.

Sonja Podstawskyj was recently “busted” for buildering in Nelson, BC. This is her story. A car pulled into the alley and stopped. The driver asked me what I was doing, but I was too focused on climbing to chat. The crux spat me off and again he asked me what I was doing. Wasn’t it [...]

“If you climb offwidths often enough, one of these days you’re bound to get your knee stuck and shit your pants. It’s an odds thing.”

What better way for rock climbers to cross-train their arms, legs and core muscles than by balancing on an oversized surfboard and paddling?

Considering a trip to Penticton’s Skaha area now that the weather is starting to cool off? Be forewarned – August is mating season for the Western Rattlesnake, which means it’s best to be wary of horny, agro slithery beasts. (The snakes, not the dudes.) My friends and I get to Skaha at least twice a [...]

There are eight new routes at the Waterline walls in Castlegar you should know about including a 5.12/13 tour de force put up by Mirek Hladik on the Valhalla Wall. For access directions to Waterline, see page 47 of the West Kootenay Rock Guide. The Raven Wall See page 47 of the guidebook. Lauryn’s Line [...]