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• Help Preserve Climbing in Western Colorado >> Last updated: 15:59
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• Todd Skinner Dies in Rappel Accident:UPDATED >> Last updated: 15:59
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Sport Climbing .de (german)

• DAV: Außerordentliche Hauptversammlung 2012 >> Nach intensiver Beratung haben die Delegierten der insgesamt 355 DAV-Sektionen am Sonntag, den 5....
• Die "Tour der vertikalen Nächte" geht die (Kletter-)Wände hoch >> Die "Tour der vertikalen Nächte" stoppt im März und April 2012 in 18 Kletterhallen quer durch...
• [VIDEO] Adam Ondra in Fontainebleau - Teil 3 >> Der dritte und letzte Teil der kleinen Serie über den ersten Besuch von Adam Ondra in...

UK Climbing Articles

• Colin Haley on the Cerro Torre Saga >>  In this article Colin Haley, one of the world's leading alpinists, gives a run down of his personal experiences on Cerro Torre, and his opinion on the botling and de-bolting of the infamous Compressor Route. "There were some spots on the Compressor Route where a climber clipped to one bolt with a daisy chain could easily touch more than ten other bolts..."
• Supercool: Duncan Drake versus Martin Atkinson >>  Author of A Canvas of Rock, his new book, Mark Radtke tells us a story about the bolt wars in Yorkshire in the late 1980's.
• Winter Sun Rock: Destination - Tenerife >>  Sue Hazel takes us on a tour of the sunny island of Tenerife. "The rock is volcanic rock. It feels a bit like fine granite to climb on, with varying sizes of pockets on some routes & positive large edges on others. There's slabs, overhangs and everything in between..."

UK Climbing News

• VIDEO: Phillip Schaal >>  Not really news, but here is a video-presentation of Phillip Schaal, an American boulderer operating slightly under most but not all radars. In it, we get to see him climb Midnight express, 8B+, Echale, 8B+ and Trainspotting, 8A+, as well as talk about climbing, training and the future. Phillip Schaal is sponsored by: and
• VIDEO: Hydrotherapy - Pembroke Deep Water Solo >>  Last summer Neil Gresham added one of the UK's hardest deep water solo routes to the Hollow Caves Bay area of Pembroke in south west Wales with his ascent of the physical 'Hydrotherapy'. Hydrotherapy (8a+) takes a steep line to the right of the still unrepeated trad route Underworld (E7) that was established by Ben Bransby and Ian Vickers.
• Russian K2 Winter Attempt Tragedy >>  The current Russian winter attempt on K2 has been abandoned after the Russian climber Vitaliy Gorelik died at Base Camp earlier today. The Russian team had made it to 7200m a few days ago but had been turned back by bad weather and a forecast for more bad weather to come. Gorelik had suffered frost bite to both hands and returned to Base camp, awaiting a helicopter rescue. The chopper was unable to reach the camp for several days due to bad weather and despite medical attention at the camp,...

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UrbanClimberMag.tv

• 505 by:Tom Ellis >> Highlights of bouldering in the Sandia Mountains just above the city of Albuquerque New Mexico
• Two from the Creek by:DenverBouldering >> Justin Jaeger on two problems in Clear Creek Canyon.
• Rewind Trailer by:BS Productions >> Through five full-length films, BS Productions has amassed years of footage of hundreds of climbers doing what they do best. It is finally time to open the vaults and reveal the adventures as one seamless film. In REWIND, you can travel back to connect the stories with years of never before seen footage. Join us to traverse the lives of Dave Graham, Jason Kehl, Joe Kinder, Emily Harrington, Chris Lindner and many, many more in a non-stop stream of action that will flash over 15 years of climbing before your eyes.