Climbing legend Lynn Hill talks about climbing goals in this 2007 article on the Patagonia website (emphasis is mine): “When it comes to planning my training objectives, I try to be realistic in choosing goals that are attainable. It’s much better to feel many small successes after having achieved modest goals rather than feel frustrated…
One of the reasons I don’t have a climbing gym membership (other than the fact that it’s expensive and that I don’t love climbing in the gym) is that I travel a lot. I’d be able to use the gym when I’m home, but that doesn’t do me any good when I’m on the road….
I like to read old climbing books. Performance Rock Climbing by Dale Goddard and Udo Neumann lists “The Ten Commandments of Physical Training,” and I thought they were great and worth sharing here: Warm up and cool down Vary your climbing and training Personalize your training Train specifically Increase your volume appropriately Don’t expect shortcuts…
I just ran across an interesting article on the Outside website. The author takes a look at a handful of “extreme” outdoor sports—nordic skiing, rock climbing, open-water swimming, downhill mountain biking, and ultrarunning—to determine which is the “toughest.” Each sport is broken down into a few measurable statistics, namely calories burned per hour, injury rate…
We all know about spotting in bouldering, but what about sun spotting? That’s what I’m calling the technique that you can see in this video from 0:39 to 0:46. The spotter is holding up a small pad to block the sun and keep it out of the climber’s eyes. Neat little trick, one that I’ve…
Check out this great article at Outside about the routesetters behind big climbing comps and events. Some parts are dumbed down a bit for non-climbers, but it’s still a good read.
This video consists of footage from Jimmy Webb’s 2015 spent bouldering in the Grampians, one of the premier climbing areas of Australia. Webb says that Australia is “some of the best rock i’ve ever touched.” Quite the endorsement.
Big wall climber, big wall speed ascensionist, and BASE jumper Sean “Stanley” Leary died in a BASE jumping accident near Utah’s Zion National Park on March 13. Further details about the circumstances surrounding his death (i.e., the events that led to his death) seem to be unknown. Deaths are not uncommon in either the climbing…
Here are the 10 best climbing videos that were uploaded to Vimeo and YouTube in the last week. Will Gadd Is One of the World’s Best Ice Climbers…Guess How Old He Is | Sub-Zero, Ep. 4 [3:36] – Will Gadd has been at the forefront of ice climbing for three decades. In this video, he…
I follow Renan Ozturk on Instagram (@renan_ozturk), and today he posted the following photo:
Here are the 10 best rock climbing videos that were uploaded to Vimeo and YouTube in the last week.
In a macabre sort of way, climbing falls are fun to watch, as long as no one gets hurt. In the moment, falls can be terrifying, and that is made abundantly clean by this point of view GoPro video of a biiiiig fall in Colorado’s Garden of the Gods.
Here are the 8 best rock climbing videos that were uploaded to Vimeo and YouTube in the last week.
Is your idea of paradise beautiful granite boulders, world-class beaches, and crystal clear water? Then check out the video (17:36 in length) below. It documents some of the great bouldering and stunning Caribbean scenery of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. It definitely looks like a place to add to your rock climbing/bouldering bucket list.
Here are the 12 best rock climbing videos that were uploaded to Vimeo and YouTube in the last week.
All sorts of great climbing content is coming. Stay tuned.
