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Nice little film about Vanessa François, who wants to climb El Cap this year (I lent her the gear that Karen and Phil Packer used on their climbs).  If you want to help her then send any dontions via paypal to francoisvanessa00@gmail.com.

Hi JaneAs you well know, on a wall you’re probably just about as exsposed as a human being can be, and in a storm you’re just as much in the shit as someone who’s fallen overboard, and the ship has sailed away.  Strangely whe...

Hi SteveYou can buy vapuor barrier shirts from companies like 40 Below or RBH Designs that will stop sweat moving through your layers (the RBH vest is all VP), but these are designed more for extreme conditions then most people would need. ...

The art of doing things that look grim in photos is to do them in such as way as to reduce the grimness to a level that they’re actually secretly quite comfortable (although you’d never want anyone to know that).  This may seem like a co...

Hi SteveIn Big Walls by John Middendorf there is a diagram on a harness showing how to attach a daisy chain, with the daisy larks footed through the waist and leg loops.  For this reason I think a lot of people attach there daises this way, be...

Short video about our attempt at the Russian route on the Eiger North face this winter - the most direct route, and also perhaps the hardest (although I havn’t done any others so unsure if that’s true).  Climbed with two complete str...

Route: Suser gjennom Harryland (VI A3 5.10b, 18 pitches, Halvor Hagen-Kyrre Ostbo, 1996)4th Ascent and 1st technical winter Ascent (15th Jan - 29th)  (Norwegians Sigurd Backe, Rolf Bae, Sigurd Felde and Trym A. Saland made the first quasi-wint...

I don’t know if you spotted Ran Fiennes latest Antarctic adventure, namely to travel to the South Pole in winter, a place that is very cold (the closer to deparcher the colder it got in the media - hitting minus 90 last time I looked) and very ...

Tony Howard is a British climbing legend. In 1965 he was part of the team that made the first British ascent of the Troll Wall in Norway. He later went on to found Troll Climbing Equipment with Alan Waterhouse and was soon joined by Paul Seddon, manu...

A short video about one of the most amazing – and toughest – big wall climbers alive (and one of the smallest!). Produced and Edited by Adam BailesVideo & Cinematography by Ignasi Tarrazona GasquePresented by Boreal“If you...