[duncan]

Alex Honnold has a ghosted memoir out. Not as early in his career as Wayne Rooney but you'd hope he has a few more years left...

Excerpt, from his health insurance sponsor's site.

[Fultonius]

Not your average tale of scary routes and big balls... 

http://nickbullock-climber.co.uk/2015/12/01/from-dawn-to-dusk-from-dusk-to-dawn/

[slackline]

Alpinist articles are always worth a read...


Lizzy Scully...


Birth, Sickness, Old Age, Death: Chapter 1
Birth, Sickness, Old Age, Death: Chapter 2

[andy_e]

Dave Stainthorpe on redpointing tactics and generally having his life sorted!

[geoffg]

65?

[Duncan campbell]

https://www.v-publishing.co.uk/blog.html

Short but sweet interview with Mark Leach about belaying Pollitt on The Bells at North Stack Wall. Really looking forward to reading this book!!

[Sasquatch]

http://sendage.com/community/articles/shadow-casting/#more-1160

Good one on a bit of squamish trady action and history.

[submaximal gains]

Colin Haley's account of his patagonian cimbing this season; it's very long, but well written and with some fantastic photos.

http://www.colinhaley.com/chalten-2015-2016/

[haydn jones]

http://squamishclimbingmagazine.ca/antihydral-skin-doping-for-climbers/

[Wood FT]

I enjoyed reading this bit of writing on Lundy by Andy Moles, it's from my communal blog so not an article by any means.

http://www.nectarclimbing.com/words/notes-in-the-margin

[grimer]

Great stuff Guy.

[Fultonius]

I enjoyed reading this bit of writing on Lundy by Andy Moles, it's from my communal blog so not an article by any means.

http://www.nectarclimbing.com/words/notes-in-the-margin

No, but it could, and should, be!  Good writing.

[Fiend]

Only skimmed it, is it all as cringingly and unreadably flowery as his usual blog posts?? Usually makes Jim Perrin look concise and clear and my eyes start going in opposite directions....

[Wood FT]

Only skimmed it, is it all as cringingly and unreadably flowery as his usual blog posts?? Usually makes Jim Perrin look concise and clear and my eyes start going in opposite directions....

sorry fiend I just can't stop looking at your cock

[slackline]

Down to the Wire

[Duncan campbell]

Some good stuff here;

http://blackdiamondequipment.com/en_GB/experience-home

Looks like it will be updated pretty regularly too

[Coops_13]

Some good stuff here;

http://blackdiamondequipment.com/en_GB/experience-home

Looks like it will be updated pretty regularly too

Good spot, just read this one, really good: http://blackdiamondequipment.com/en_GB/experience-story?cid=hazel-findlay-one-year-later

[Johnny Brown]

He got a nun preggers didn't he?

[petejh]

Dawes?

[Duma]

Really enjoyed that. I know it's petty, but is it not Air Sweden not swedin?

[Duma]

Ah, cheers.

[Duma]

Not chuffing, but don't think we have a bouldering equivalent? Anyway, nice Fred Nicole chat :
http://www.verticallifemag.com.au/2016/07/deliberately-slow-fred-nicole/

[slackline]

..I’d forgotten what makes trad climbing so special — it’s all the faffing around.
It’s not about climbing hard; sport and bouldering do that better. It’s not about being fast and efficient, because then it becomes calculated and arbitrary — as does the weird sub-sport of head-pointing, which is not trad climbing. It’s not primarily about being in beautiful places, because we sometimes climb in Lancashire.

To my mind, it’s about falling back into a slower pace of life, and focusing on the here and now. It’s got a fancy name these days — mindfulness."

..from here.

[Muenchener]

Planet Mountain has a nice write-up on the 25th anniversary of Action Directe.

[SA Chris]

Good article.

Sykora had originally bolted the line coming in from the right, managed to climb the individual moves through the upper section and believed the lower section to be feasible but too difficult for himself. He generously offered the project to Güllich, who promptly bolted the direct start. Hence the name.

I was always led to believe it was named after the terrorist group.

Has Ondra not done it? Saving it for the onsight?