This Week in Climbing #9 (December 13, 2015)
Last Updated on: 15th December 2015, 01:00 pm
Sorry this edition of This Week in Climbing is a couple days late, but better late than never, right?
Climbing News
- AFRICA
- Rock Master 2015 Results at Climb ZA
- AMERICAS
- ASIA
- EUROPE
- Brenta Dolomites Val d’Ambiez: new climb in memory of Andrea Zambaldi at Planet Mountain
- Fat Lip 8B for Ollie Torr at UK Climbing
- VIDEO: Malham Waterfall – It’s Raining Bats and Dogs… at UK Climbing
- Ziqqurat, new ~8C (V15) by Niccolò Ceria at UK Climbing (See also Planet Mountain and DPM.)
- Sogni di Gloria on Punta Angelo, Adamello – Presanella at Planet Mountain
- 8c and 8b+ trad by Jacopo Larcher at UK Climbing
Climbing Articles
- Climbing & Body Image: Community, Confidence, and Self-Worth at Crux Crush
- Tree Ratings in kN at American Alpine Institute Blog
- Share the Experience by Rob Pizem
- Unbelayavable: The Slackline Belay at Climbing
- How Being “Disciplined” Can Be Undisciplined by Alli Rainey
- Staying Power – How to Last All Day at the Crag at Rock & Ice
- Oh how I enjoy these things: alpinism that borders between reason and passion at Planet Mountain
- Climbing and Body Image: Is There an Idea Body Type for Climbing? at Crux Crush
Good Climbing Videos
- Gadd’s Still Got It: “The Mustang P-51” (M14-), The Fang Amphitheater, East Vail, Colorado [7:53]
- Sponsored: Climbing Magazine and Lifestraw Climb Spearhead in RMNP [3:14]
- Alex Honnold: At Home Off The Wall [6:05]
- Agent Of Cool (31) [3:59]
- Chris Sharma goes Back to the Future on “Magie Blanche” (8b+) 1986 [6:47]
- Alan Carne on Sacred Cow [4:38]
- FUEL: Scrambling Up Mount Superior with Professional Rock Climber Alex Honnold [18:52]
- Utah Bouldering Trip [6:28]
- Metallica IX (Polish Tatra Mountains, Mnich) [2:43]
Interviews/Profiles
- FFA’s Matter! An Interview with Kim Shelton—the First Lady to Climb 5.13d at the NRG at DPM
- La Sportiva Speed Interview – Shannon Joslin [5:44]
- No One is Safe: An Interview with Rawk Tawk at DPM
- Jimmy Chin: adventure in a photograph at Planet Mountain
- A Basecamp Podcast Conversation With Bernadette McDonald at Gripped
Trip Reports
- ‘Murica Part 3: The Final Valley Assessment, Bishop Bouldering and Other Epics at The Climbing Obscurist
- The SWAK Chronicles, episode 9 – Enter the Dragon at Climb ZA
- A Mt. Whitney Vignette by Hannah Lily Hall at The Climbing Zine
Reviews
- Review: Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold at The Climbing Zine
- Film Review: Devil’s Pass at American Alpine Institute Blog
- Review: Black Diamond Cold Forge Hoody at The Climbing Zine
- The Young Savages at DPM
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