[Stubbs]

Nice, think I will have a go after the Bolt Fund have been and sorted it out

[tommytwotone]

Some high-quality huffing, puffing, screaming, grunting and under-the-breath swearing there. A man after my own heart.

[r-man]

[abarro81]

[hal]

[jwi]

Apologies if this has been posted before

[jwi]

The route Sansara in the video above is a seven pitch 10+ (8b+), put up on lead by Alex Huber. The route has bolted belays and 7 lead bolts in 7 pitches, the rest is protected by gear (or not at all).

[Fiend]

Good stuff, looked cool. Wonder if the crux roof could be done on gear??

[JackAus]

Belayed a mate on the FA of this 7b+ a few weeks ago.
Obviously filmed on a different day as I'm not the chick belaying him in the vid...

[remus]

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[Muenchener]

Gnarly no-gloves winter biking. I once rode a motorbike five miles in February with no glove on one hand, having dislocated a finger at the gym, and that one time was more than enough for me.

[Muenchener]

We don't see as much footage of alpinism as we do of rock climbing, for obvious reasons, but I found this film of some guys on Andy Parkin and Mark Twight's Beyond Good and Evil appropriately cold- and gloomy-looking.



From Dane at Cold Thistle. Bonus interviews there with "Marc", too, for those whose French is better than mine.

[Muenchener]

I like the music too. Anybody recognise it?

In the last few weeks I've bought a pair of big boots, an ice axe and a sixty euro belay jacket from Decathlon. Cutting edge alpinism A nice bit of winter hillwalking here I come.

[slackline]

I like the music too. Anybody recognise it?

Soundhound says its "Soul Outside" by Antonio Pinto.

[Ged]

Bet they were a bit peed off about the fixed rope all the way up it

[slackline]

[standard]

nice video.

when the yanks grade something 5.14, is that the same as 5.14a? The letter is just dropped for brevity?

[remus]

when the yanks grade something 5.14, is that the same as 5.14a? The letter is just dropped for brevity?

Might be using a 14-, 14, 14+ sort of system which would suggest it's somewhere in the middle. Would make sense for an FA, where it's hard to be precise about the grade.

[jwi]

When people are spraying I tend to interpret "5.X" as "5.(X-1)d/5.Xa"

[Fiend]

Not enough gangsta and not enough close-ups.

[miso soup]

I thought when yanks graded things 5.14 they were just being really vague and non-committal, like an extreme version of the slash grade.  "I reckon it's probably between 5.14a and 5.14d.  I don't really know, I'm a boulderer, this is my first route."

Also:

[Fiend]

Did we have this before?? Good angle, good foot precision, good music.

[flyguy]

intense, nice bit of trumpet at 1:15