[Will Hunt]

I enjoyed this on t'other channel:
https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=9511

[andy popp]

I found this completely inspiring. I'm now feeling very guilty about my recent sloth.

https://www.climbing.com/news/first-down-syndrome-summit-of-the-grand-teton/

[duncan]

Mirror Mirror by Ed Drummond

Great account of one of the all time climbing epics. Bizarrely it had me fascinated by the Troll Wall for two decades, an itch I'm very happy never to have scratched.

[slackline]

El Cap in a Golden Day


 

[jwi]

  I never thought I'd read an I-jugged-the-cap article with interest, but hey-ho now I did. Good find.

[duncan]

That's great. I'd wad you if I could work out how...

[jwi]

A good article on Hugues Beauzile, a wild man accidentally caught by camera when authoring some of the more outrageous alpine solos in the 90s.

http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web18w/wfeature-a60-force-of-the-soul-hugues-beauzile

[HaeMeS]

Thanks for sharing the article! I tried to explain Claret, the beautiful and fun guidebook and Rouzo, Beauzille and Berardini to younger climbers recently when we were near Claret. Didn't work.

Rouzo was a remarkable figure as well. Sad they are all gone. But they sure had their part of the fun. The guidebooks, the routenames and drawings on the rock as well as the routes themselves remain.

Mort aux cons!

[Muenchener]

Interesting interview with Hazel: https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/ask-a-badass-hazel-findlay

[Kingy]

Interesting points made by Hazel. What about those North Face athletes who are not able to 'vote with their feet' and move to another organisation with better ethical standards? Maybe their stock has fallen or they haven't been sending much recently. Not everybody will have that luxury.

[remus]

I'm pretty sure Patagonia have a military line too.

http://www.patagonia.com/pro/category/armed-forces-law-enforcement.html

Don't think they do specific military kit, just the above discount.

[galpinos]

No issues with the ClarusCorp/BD/Sierra Bullets/NRA connections though.

Does this go beyond making hunting and target bullets as cited here? - http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/sierra-bullets-bought-by-clarus.html?m=1

Or will BD C4 mean something different in coming years?
[/quote]

Well, there's the tie between Sierra and the NRA (probably a requirement as a bullet manufacturer to be fair) but BD is run by Warren Kanders, who owns Safariland (manufacturer and supplier of safety and survivability products to the public safety, homeland security and commercial markets) and used to run Armor Holdings (manufacturer and supplier of military vehicles, armored vehicles and safety and survivability products). It all seems a bit gun, body armour and riot shield heavy for my tastes.....

[duncan]

I'm not a pacifist so I'm fine with BD, DMM or anyone else producing matt black cams and carabiners. (I'd rather the UK stopped pretending it's 1958, spent much less on defence overall, and focused on its strengths - light infantry - rather than strategic weapons but that's another topic.)

The issue with BD is the management. Exec. chair Warren Kanders was head of Armor Holdings, and not necessarily the kind of person you want running a climbing company.

Outside mag. have a piece on the ethics of gear buying in the wake of the Florida school shootings. Camelbak’s parent company Vista Outdoor is one of the largest assault weapons manufacturers in the USA and NRA supporter.

[galpinos]

Outside mag. have a piece on the ethics of gear buying in the wake of the Florida school shootings. Camelbak’s parent company Vista Outdoor is one of the largest assault weapons manufacturers in the USA and NRA supporter.

They are the parent company of Cebe and Bolle as well.

[cowboyhat]

This stuff is interesting. I was explaining to my 10 yr old yesterday how there are really only five food companies and so on. (he's a vegetarian and is interested in how stuff works.).

Its hard being principled.

[teestub]

would love to hear more about the food thing, but that's a whole thread in itself!

[galpinos]

I thought it was 10 food companies according to oxfam, along the lines of:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/10-companies-control-the-food-industry-2016-9

[teestub]

Oh I see, it's more about trashy food, I thought there was some conspiracy I hadn't heard about and Coca Cola owned all the sheep in Yorkshire or something! 

[galpinos]

Oh I see, it's more about trashy food, I thought there was some conspiracy I hadn't heard about and Coca Cola owned all the sheep in Yorkshire or something! 

Not quite that bad but pretty much anything bought in a supermarket.

[jwi]

Oh I see, it's more about trashy food, I thought there was some conspiracy I hadn't heard about and Coca Cola owned all the sheep in Yorkshire or something! 

Not quite that bad but pretty much anything bought in a supermarket.

Only food made in a factory really. Potatoes are not made by Nestle, and eggs are not manufactured by Unilever.

[andy_e]

Not sure where to put this, but I enjoyed this article about Hard Grit.

[kelvin]

Spain has 14 climbers who've climbed 9a+ apparently.

http://www.desnivel.com/escalada-roca/los-14-escaladores-del-club-del-9a-espanol

[jwi]

Ascents of routes with sitstarts included, but not ascents of Bimbaluna. Not quality.

[GazM]

Even dark horses have bad days: http://murdochjamieson.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-big-whipper-on-ben-nevis.html 

[jwi]

From opening the first children's circuits in Fontainebleau, via pushing the standards in Buoux, to setting the first world cups. Antoine Le Menestrel spills the beans. [In French, but doesn't require more than elementary knowledge + climbing vocab.]

http://www.gratteronetchaussons.fr/2018/06/13/il-etait-une-voie-by-antoine-le-menestrel/