Weekend Whipper: Sometimes Two Pads Aren’t Enough…
If only he had a team to hump dozens of pads out to the boulders like the pros!
If only he had a team to hump dozens of pads out to the boulders like the pros!
Runouts during onsight attempts are always exciting.
Kinda like a real life version of chutes and ladders...
As someone in the Rock and Ice office commented yesterday, this Weekend Whipper is “nut” for the faint of heart.
Don't be fooled. Wait for it...
Springmielies means "popcorn" in Afrikaans, and so is a fitting name for a particular niche discipline and its practitioners on the climbing scene in South Africa.
40-footer on a 60-foot route!
"Still my gnarliest fall to date I think," wrote the whippee, Corey.
D-Woods goes a muerte and barely avoids an early muerte when gear breaks.
Everyone dreads insecure clips—you know, the type where you're standing on glassy smears and have try to sling the rope through the quickdraw as quickly as you can. Patrick Small knows the kind all too well.
While Sir Roger Moore is probably only the third best Bond (1. Connery, 2. Brosnan. Duh.), he's clearly the best climber of the bunch.