Climbing History and Trivia
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The Recovery Drink and the World's Hardest Crack Climbs - 2015-02-09 by Paul unknown
Video of Nico Favresse sending The Recovery Drink in Norway has just come out, and he calls it the hardest crack he's done. What are some of the other hardest pure crack climbs in the world?Votes: 0 | Comments: 0 | Views: 3786
Game Changers: Five Innovations and Inventions that Shaped Modern Climbing - 2015-01-23 by Paul Nelson
Today, we almost take it for granted that, if we have the fitness and drive, we can safely protect and climb almost anything we want. It hasn't always been this way. Here are the technologies that have made climbing what it is today.Votes: 2 | Comments: 3 | Views: 20790
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Climbing Grades (at least in the U.S.) - 2014-11-20 by Paul Nelson
The history, development, and headaches that go into attaching numbers to rock climbs.Vote: 1 | Comment: 1 | Views: 8505
The History and Future of Climbing Style and Ethics - 2014-11-06 by Paul Nelson
We throw around the terms "style" and "ethics" quite a bit in climbing. But what do they mean? How did their meanings come to be? Check out this fairly long essay for more than you've ever wanted to know on the topic. It's the responsible, ethical thing to do.Votes: 6 | Comments: 4 | Views: 8197
Literature on the Rock: An Annotated Bibiliography - 2014-10-23 by Paul Nelson
There is a lot of mountaineering literature out there, but what about rock climbing, or even bouldering? Here are a few of the best non-fiction memoirs or biographies on rock, which every climber should read.Votes: 0 | Comments: 0 | Views: 3024
Why Do You Climb Mountains? - Because they are there! - 2012-11-08 by Dr.H. Korman
Why do you climb Mountains? "Because they are there" said legend and icon Mallory.Vote: 1 | Comments: 0 | Views: 13533
Five Minutes (or more): Pete Takeda - 2009-03-09 by J. Young
J. Young and Pete Takeda discuss An Eye at the Top of the World.Votes: 6 | Comments: 4 | Views: 10025
The Access Fund: Foresight and Follow-Through - 2009-01-09 by J. Young
"We’re ten people and there are literally thousands of climbing areas at play..."Votes: 7 | Comments: 2 | Views: 7141
An Auspicious Infancy: The Earliest Days of the Access Fund - 2008-12-22 by J. Young
First of two interviews with past and present leaders of the Access Fund.Votes: 10 | Comments: 15 | Views: 9103
Kaymoor Mine: a Photo Essay - 2005-11-25 by j_ung
A photographic journey through the New River Gorge's past.Votes: 0 | Comment: 1 | Views: 10286
Rowell's Revenge - 2005-09-28 by Tim Shea
The true story of a dish best served cold. When a young man meets a Climbing Legend and it all goes bad, the Legend gets his revenge.Votes: 3 | Comments: 3 | Views: 7275
Landscape Artist Attempts to Climb Matterhorn - 2004-12-22 by Paul Chrastina
Retelling of the Whymper Matterhorn epic. First published in OLD NEWS, March, 1996. Vol. 7, No. 6.Votes: 4 | Comments: 5 | Views: 10881
It's a Man's World...NOT!!! - 2004-11-07 by polarwid
Some of my observations and opinions of WOMEN and climbing in the past 20 years, from an old, washed up MAN who learned a thing or two on the way!Votes: 4 | Comments: 2 | Views: 9845
A Brief Explanation of the ALASKA GRADE SYSTEM - 2004-11-04 by polarwid
A link to the Alaska Range pages in Alaska so that I can describe the difficulty of the mountain routes easily in the Routes Database. Note: The Alaska Grade System description below is excerpted from Jonathan Waterman's [i]High Alaska[/i].Vote: 1 | Comment: 1 | Views: 11888
Where are our Superstars? - 2004-02-01 by michael
The past 100 years has seen some amazing people push the limits of climbing further than anyone ever would imagine. But what has happened lately? Where are our superstars?Votes: 2 | Comments: 2 | Views: 10034