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Yosemite's Widows Tears in Rare Shape 18 Jan 2013 | 08:26 pm
Jan. 18, 2013 Widow’s Tears, America’s longest continuous ice climb and also one of its most elusive, has had a rare ascent, by Kevin Daniels, Kurt Wedberg and Trevor Anthes, on January 15. Nearly 1,...
Quick Hits: Mondet Climbs Fontainebleau's Hardest 17 Jan 2013 | 12:53 am
Jan. 16, 2013 Frenchman Guillaume Glairon Mondet has squeezed up The Big Island (V15), making a rare repeat of Fontainebleau’s hardest problem. “I have tried The Big Island for three years,” Mondet t...
Fresh Ascent of Sharma 5.15a 16 Jan 2013 | 09:50 pm
Jan. 16, 2013 Cedric Lachat has made a rare repeat of Chaxi, a 5.15a power-endurance route in Oliana, Spain. Chris Sharma first sent the route on May 5, 2011. Read more...
David Lama Heads Back to Patagonia: Plus Photos of New Route 16 Jan 2013 | 09:32 pm
Jan. 16, 2013 Following his groundbreaking first free ascent of the Compressor Route (5.13b) on Cerro Torre last year, David Lama is on his way back to the Patagonian mountains with a wild new first a...
Happy Birthday to Fred Beckey 16 Jan 2013 | 06:44 pm
Jan. 16, 2013 Happy belated birthday to Fred Beckey, who turned 90 on Monday. Beckey’s 90 years have been devoted to mountains, and his climbing adventures have left him with more first ascents than a...
VIDEO: Dean Potter Walks on the Moon 15 Jan 2013 | 05:11 am
Jan. 15, 2012 Check out this sweet video of Dean Potter walking a highline at Cathedral Peak in Yosemite. Mikey Schaefer captured the video from over a mile away. Potter appears to walk on the moon as...
New Film to Celebrate American Fork as Crucible 15 Jan 2013 | 01:33 am
Jan. 14, 2013 George Bruce Wilson was climbing at American Fork, Utah, one day when he watched a few climbers trying a 5.12d in its Hell Cave. "This one kid kept slipping,” he recalls, “and another o...
Then and Now: Hueco Rock Rodeo Celebrates its 20th Year 15 Jan 2013 | 01:22 am
Jan. 14, 2012 The Hueco Rock Rodeo is celebrating its 20th year in 2013, making it one of the longest-running outdoor climbing competitions! In 1989 the El Paso Climbers Club (EPCC) started the Rock ...
TNB: Gun Control 14 Jan 2013 | 10:47 pm
I’ll never forget my first real gun, a seven-shot Ithaca .410 pump shotgun. It was a surprise Christmas present from Mack, my alcoholic grandfather who, in the 1950s, had murdered a black musician wit...
New M11 Route in "The Biggest Sport Mixed Cave in the World" 14 Jan 2013 | 10:20 pm
Jan. 14, 2013 Will Gadd, Will Mayo, Pat Delaney, and John Freeman collectively developed a new M11 route called Nophobia in the Ghost area near Canmore, Alberta. Two in the party successfully climbed ...
