Check out this Youtube video that pits a Metolius cam against a one ton boulder. Here’s the description: “Found an old TCU in the mountains and decided to take it for a test. The first image shows the cam after the loadtest. The axel is clearly bent from the forces of the outer cams, making [...]
Feast your eyes on this great video of the classic South Ridge climb on Gimli Peak in the Valhalla Mountain Range. It was put together by photographer Paul Lapides and it documents his ascent of the route in July 2012. For more about Paul’s adventure check out his blog.
Finally! A bouldering video that doesn’t suck! Compliments of CryptoChild on Vimeo this video features footage in Hueco Tanks, Texas. Here’s the write up: “On a never ending quest to climb the best highballs in the world, Jason Kehl found himself back in Hueco Tanks. This time to attempt a huge project on West Mountain [...]
This is awesome! Thanks to Sonja Podstawskyj for putting this fantastic trailer together showing highlights from the Kootenay Climbing Festival on June 23, 2012, including the rain of “biblical proportions.”
On Saturday, June 23, get a grip on your local climbing scene & join TAWKROC for the 1ST ANNUAL KOOTENAY CLIMBING FESTIVAL which will be held behind the Lion’s Head Pub in Robson, near Castlegar. The event will start at 3pm in the back parking lot of the Lion’s Head (2629 Broadwater Rd) and will [...]
Climbers are awesome! But so are regular people. Check out the video below to get your holiday stoke on:
We here at climbing.inthekoots love to hate offwidths. And we’re not the only ones. However, there are a dedicated few who actually enjoy chicken-winging their way up heinous cracks that are larger than the average hand width but two narrow to stuff a body into. Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker are two such individuals. The [...]
A blast from the past: This pre-YouTube video shows British rock climber Catherine Destivelle free-soloing in the African country of Mali. It was filmed in 1987 (world-famous solo climber Alex Honnold was 1 year old at the time) and it examines the local people, the Dogons of Sanga, for whom climbing is part of their [...]
Twenty-five-year-old Alex Honnold may look like a geek but he’s a zen master when it comes to hardcore solo climbing. The California native jumped onto the world stage in September 2007 when he free soloed the uber-classics “Astroman” and “Rostrum” in Yosemite Valley…in one day. (The only other person to do so is Canadian-born Peter [...]
In the summer of 2010, Italian climbers Iker and Eneko Pou decided to visit the godfathers of the Alps. They met and interviewed the men who put up the most iconic routes in the history of big-wall climbing and then the brothers went and repeated those lines. This is one of the most beautiful climbing [...]
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