climbing
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Meet The Crazy Climber Who Made His Own Carbon Fibre Ice Axes
If you want to climb ice, you’re going to need a pair of ice axes. The state-of-the-art is this carbon pair from Black Diamond, which will run you a cool $US340 per axe. Or, you could just make your own, like this guy did, saving himself over 500 grams in the process.
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Who Changes The Bulbs On Top Of Transmission Towers?
Somebody with no fear of heights, that’s who, as this video showing climber Ken Schmidt making the ascent up a 457m high tower to change a bulb shows.
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This Gear Took Us Around The World
What clothes, computer, ice axe, and backpack does a photographer and writer for an adventure travel site fall back on when he’s going to be going up against the unpredictability of nature, while travelling unsupported around the world? This is the best of the best, the stuff I took with me to adventure around the…
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Squarespace Made One Of The Most Compelling Short Films I’ve Ever Seen About Climbing
Video: I’ll be honest, free climbing scares the living hell out of me. The idea that you could plummet from a giant rockface to your spine-smashing death is something I struggle with. So watching climber and avid outdoorsman, Alex Honnold, scale a granite rock face in Yosemite National Park is a compelling experience. Inexplicably, it…