Basic Ice Technique With Stas Beskin
Short instructional video for ice climbers who want to optimize their technique.
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Stas Beskin has been pushing the envelope the past few seasons, climbing super thin and delicate drips, smears and pillars. Here, he shares a few fundamentals of ice climbing that, if you learn and internalize them early, will pay dividends when you begin to climb harder and more vertical ice.