TheLowDown
One week ago, Nalle Hukkataival embarked on a roadtrip to Norway. The
weather forecast looked grim to say the least, predicting heavy rain
every day in the Trondheim area. This didn't put him off however, and
apparently, and as usual I suppose, the forecast was not entirely
correct, because today I got a report from Eivind Flobak:
"Rumour has it Nalle Hukkataival has sent the Diamanten
project at Vingsand, giving it a grade of 8B+. Th ...
Jimmy Webb
is quickly ticking his way through the Colorado test-pieces. This
month, he has dispatched no less than 4 8B's, 6 8A+'s and 10 8A's. Two
of the 8B's, Top notch
and Don't get too Greedy
were done yesterday. Here's a video with Jimmy Webb and Brion Voges.
A couple of weeks ago, Dai Koyamada made the long awaited 2nd ascent
of Dave Graham's 'The story of 2 worlds' on the Dreamtime boulder at
Cresciano. The problem, links an extremely crimpy 7 move ~8B/+ or so
into Toni Lamprecht's ultra physical 'The Dagger', 8B+, to create what
Dave, at the time, called "the new standard for 8C". It went
more than five years without a 2nd ascent, and it wasn't because
nobody tried it...
Salavat's 5-year-old daughter, Zalia, sustained severe injuries when she
was hit by a falling rock at a crag in Turkey. Surgery, treatment and
transportation is very expensive, so please help by donating money, if
you can.
The data for Western Union (currency account maybe later):
RAKHMETOV Salavat (Kipaevich)
63 № 8399932
28.04.2009 - 28.04.2014
Moscovskaya oblast, g. Odintsovo
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The data for Western Union (currency account maybe later):
RAKHMETOV Salavat (Kipaevich)
63 № 8399932
28.04.2009 - 28.04.2014
Moscovskaya oblast, g. Odintsovo
Read more on
Jörg Guntram
, on tour in Sweden with Tobi Kleemair, has managed to make the 2nd
ascent of Stefan Rasmussen's
great looking The Hourglass
, ~8B+, at Björnblocket, near Västervik. Stefan, portraid in
Shawn Boye's movie The Sends
, has been working tirelessly for many years, developing boul ...
Daniel Woods has written a piece about where he thinks climbing is going
.
I think this is a very complicated issue... and I suspect I'm not unique in this sense (either). On the one hand, if we by progress mean more difficult climbing, a significantly harder problem or route must get a higher grade, because it's on open ended scale. On the other hand, it's not always easy to know whether the thi ...
I think this is a very complicated issue... and I suspect I'm not unique in this sense (either). On the one hand, if we by progress mean more difficult climbing, a significantly harder problem or route must get a higher grade, because it's on open ended scale. On the other hand, it's not always easy to know whether the thi ...
