Source credit – Blog: Rock and Ice Feed Author: Christopher Parker Ueli Steck, 35, one of the world’s top alpinists and speed climbers, has summitted Everest with 21-year-old Tenzing Sherpa, without supplemental oxygen. Steck and Tenzing completed the climb on the 18th, arriving from the South Col. Last year, Steck, stricken with cold feet and [...]
Source credit – Blog: Rock and Ice Feed Author: Christopher Parker In this moody video sloper-meister Chris Schulte climbs some nice blocks locked in the heart of Colorado winter. {vimeo}41810213{/vimeo}
Source credit – Blog: Rock and Ice Feed Author: Christopher Parker Sasha DiGiulian, fresh off a slew of 5.14 sends including Pure Imagination (5.14d) and Era Vella (5.14d), is joining the powerhouse ranks of Mayan Smith-Gobat, Jessa Goebel, Mason Earle, Ben Rueck, Ben Spannuth, Chris Schulte and Ronnie Jenkins as a climber/athlete at the Rock [...]
Source credit – Blog: Rock and Ice Feed Author: Christopher Parker Chris Sharma, Dani Andrada, Stephanie Bodet, and all the other Petzl athletes sport some of the best rock in the world: the Getu Valley of China. Watch and enjoy this musical video. {youtube}EcU255XBlcI{/youtube}
Source credit – Blog: Rock and Ice Feed Author: Christopher Parker As reported earlier, the French teenager Enzo Oddo did virtually all the hardest routes in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge during his short trip this spring. Here’s a lighthearted look at the young phenom in action. {youtube}8RiJJteji3U&feature{/youtube}
Source credit – Blog: Rock and Ice Feed Author: Christopher Parker Some people can get a lot done in a day. Or an hour and a quarter. “First ascent world record” shows Permin Bertle, a German climber residing in Switzerland, climbing two new 9a’s / 5.14d’s in 75 minutes. Chromosome X and Chromosome Y {vimeo}41976103{/vimeo} [...]
Source credit – Blog: Rock and Ice Feed Author: Christopher Parker Conrad Anker has pulled the plug on the National Geographic/North Face attempt to repeat the 1963 American route up Everest’s West Ridge. After studying aerial images obtained in a helicopter flyover, Anker concluded that the ridge and particularly the Hornbein Couloir don’t have enough [...]
Source credit – Blog: Rock and Ice Feed Author: Christopher Parker Congrats to Heather Robinson for sending her first 5.14 (of many more) yesterday. The route is called Mon Pote Assiss (5.14a) and it is located at Mount Potosi, just outside of Las Vegas, where Robinson lives. Her ascent will go down as the route’s [...]
Source credit – Blog: Rock and Ice Feed Author: Christopher Parker Yves Gravelle, visiting from Quebec, has sent his first V14 with the probable sixth ascent of Echale in Clear Creek Canyon. The strong (see training vid below) Gravelle has opened problems up to V13, Read more…
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