Public attention in these sports generally focuses on tragedies and as such are highly emotive and sensationalized. Dramatic accounts of accidents and hardships often lead… Read More »THE RISKS OF ADVENTURE SPORTS/PEOPLE
Yes, that’s right. Ladders. Now, this may blur the line for a climbing website, but I did find it by googling “climbing”, so I feel… Read More »ALL SHOULD FEAR THE DANGER OF LADDERS. NOT BOLT LADDERS.
“Mike Robertson (45) of Wareham, Dorset, the deep-water soloist, photographer and recent Banff award-winning author of Deep Water was arrested on Monday whilst climbing the… Read More »EIFFEL TOWER PROTEST CLIMB LEADS TO ARREST
“The sky was stunningly blue and clear and there was no wind; you only get a few days like this each summer on Antarctica’s highest… Read More »CLIMBING AND GLOBAL WARMING CONVERGE IN ANTARCTICA
Oh yeah? Really? As if I didn’t have enough to be concerned about, now I learn that a chemical secreted by ants can cause rappel… Read More »ANTS. SLING FAILURE. THESE TWO SHOULD NOT GO TOGETHER.
In 2005, a two-man Spanish team took seven days to climb the route in alpine style. Our aim was to repeat the route in alpine… Read More »TRIP REPORT: LATOK III SEES SECOND ALPINE-STYLE ASCENT
On summit day we thought we could simply climb to the ridge and follow it to the glacier, which would lead to some easy rock… Read More »TRIP REPORT: YUTU SUMMIT PROVES ELUSIVE AS NAMESAKE RABBIT
We’d both wanted to do it. We lay there on the ground, shivering in the night air as much from fear as from the cold.
Mark Twight apparently was also experiencing hallucinations (or just a bad memory) as he appears to have confused two passages from Snow in the Kingdom.
A recent perusal of Mark Twight’s self aggrandizing (not to mention downright brilliant) “Kiss or Kill” brought me to the following passage, in which Twight… Read More »Hidden Luxuries of Nanga Parbat?
“They should have signs and stuff and trash cans outside,” said Pham, who climbs regularly in the safety of a San Francisco gym. “I don’t… Read More »HOW ARE THESE PEOPLE PAID TO WRITE ABOUT CLIMBING?
This is the first time I’ve see Alpinist late to post news. An outstanding climb was done by Tomaz over a week ago.
