This Week in Climbing #23 (April 3, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy!

Climbing News

AFRICA

South Africa

• New permit system for Trad Climbing on Table Mountain and Peninsula at Climb ZA
• Rock Climbing banned in Gauteng due to Raptor Breeding Program at Climb ZA

AMERICAS

• Canada
  • Marc-Andre Leclerc and Luka Lindic on Classic Mount Temple Route at Gripped
  • Big New Quebec Mixed Route in Memory of Benoit Marion by Gripped
  • Ben Harnden Repeats Sonnie Trotter’s Family Man 5.14 in Skaha at Gripped
• USA
  • Easter Send-day: 5.14c’s at the Red for Margo Hayes, Brooke Raboutou, and Dru Mack at DPM

EUROPE

• France
  • Winter Ascent of Walker Spur for Livingstone and Graham at UK Climbing
• Italy
  • Lino D’Angelo farewell at Planet Mountain
• Spain
  • 8c (5.14b) and 8b+ (5.14a) flash by Kajsa Rosén at UK Climbing
  • First(?) female 8c onsight and 8c/+, by Kajsa Rosén at UK Climbing
• UK
  • The Waterman 8B (V13): First Ascent by Mikey Cleverdon at UK Climbing
• Everywhere else
  • Adam Ondra Claims First Ascent of 5.15a/b in Slovenia and Croatia’s first 5.14d at DPM (See also UK Climbing.)
  • Jimmy Webb Flashes the Globalist (V13/14) at DPM (See also UK Climbing.)
  • Sport climbing at Leonidio, new multi-pitch climb in Greece at Planet Mountain

Climbing Articles

• 6 Tips to Climb Harder Than Ever … While Working Full Time at Moja Gear
• Unbelayvable: How to Save Money and Decrease Safety at Climbing
• Climbers and Pooping in the Mountains and Other Places at Gripped
• Devils Kitchen and the Near-Death Fall at Climbing
• Everything I need to know at For the Love of Climbing
• 16 Climbing Photographers You Should Know at Climbing
• Warming Up for Your Project with Angy Eiter at Crux Crush
• 19 More Facts About Mt. Everest at Semi-Rad – It’s funny.
• Climbing Nutrition Case Study #1: Simon (20-Year-Old Athletic Male) at Climbing Nutrition
• The Bizarre, Painful Appeal of Off-Width Climbing at Adventure Journal
• How to Build Bomber Ice Anchors at Climbing
• Too Easy to Fail at The Power Company – About using a hangboard.
• Training the Wrist Stabilizers by Eric Hörst

April Fool’s Day Articles

• Squamish’s Cobra Crack Bolted! at Gripped
• Being A Professional Climber Not That Great at UK Climbing
• Crux Crush Line of Organic Climbing Tools at Crux Crush

Destinations, Routes, etc.

• Roped Up in Arabia: Rock Climbing in Jordan at Climbing
• The North Ridge of Mount Assiniboine at Gripped
• The Gunks, New York Climbing Destination Guide at Climbing

Good New Climbing Videos

• Snow On Granite In Ticino [8:44] – A longer flick about bouldering in Ticino, Italy.
• Tom Randall’s Cobra Crack Climb Finger Work-Out | EpicTV Climbing Daily, Ep. 259 [3:16] – Crackmaster Tom Randall shows the indoor crack he built to train for Squamish’s Cobra Crack.
• Bouldering Puerto Rico // Yabucoa [4:57] – Nicely shot video of some beautiful Puerto Rican bouldering.
• Palestina [9:41] – Footage of some gorgeous sport routes in Spain.
• 12 Boulder Problems from Rocklands, 8a and up by Guillaume! [10:57] – Boulder problems at Rocklands, South Africa.

Interviews and Profiles

• Female FA Duo Push the Boundaries of 5.13R and Beyond at Crux Crush
• INTERVIEW: Dani Arnold on Anubis at UK Climbing
• How Single Mom and Ice Climbing Champ Ines Papert Does It All at Climbing
• Words with Now-Canadian Wayne Merry who was on The Nose First Ascent at Gripped

Gear, Reviews, etc.

• Boreal Lynx Review at Climbing Gear Reviews
• Our Top 5 Smart Climbing Ropes at Climbing
• Review: Edelweiss Curve 9.8mm at The Climbing Zine
• Review: Mountainsmith Mayhem 45 at The Climbing Zine