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60 Minutes Wingsuiting Video
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- Created on Monday, 28 December 2009 10:46
If rappelling isn't your favorite mode of descent and the walk-down is long and painful, consider this alternative way to getting down the mountain... time to fly!
Aired on 60 Minutes on Dec. 27th, 2009 featuring big mountain skier JT Holmes and his international crew of wingsuiting bro's. Live your dreams!
Mixed Climbing in RMNP Video
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- Created on Tuesday, 15 December 2009 04:00
Ryan Bogus and Eli Helmuth mix it up on a (now) first ascent at Hidden Falls in Rocky Mountain National Park, CO on Dec. 16th, 2009. Thanks to Chris, Mike, John, and Kevin for the many soft-catches on this fun-filled day! Read more here at the Colorado MoJo for details on the FA.
Blind and Naked Video
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- Created on Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:00
Blind climber Erik Weihenmayer tackles his hardest route to date - Eldorado Canyon's The Naked Edge - to benefit the Access Fund. Support climbing advocacy and conservation: http://accessfund.org/
Twin Owls 'Coyote' Video
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- Created on Sunday, 29 November 2009 17:59
A short video from a post-Thanksgiving workout on the Lumpy Ridge, Twin Owls classic: Coyote (12b). Coyote is a classic bolted arete on the Twin Owls Formation of
Lumpy Ridge that was first ascended by Mike Caldwell in 1989. This video was
edited to remove the excessive chalking and breathing involved on this
cloudless, warm breeze day at 8,000' . Music courtesy of Habib Koite'
and his band Bamada; a very talented musician from Mali and from their CD -
Muso Ko.
Free-Solo Base-Jumping video
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- Created on Sunday, 08 November 2009 12:31
Steph Davis and Dean Potter doing their respective free-solo dances and basejumps.
Bouldering above 14k in Peru video
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- Created on Thursday, 01 October 2009 04:00
Eli Helmuth climbs a few new boulder problems and a classic arete in the Ishinca and Llanganuco Valley's of Peru. All footage is from an October 2009 trip in the Cordillera Blanca Range of Peru during a ClimbingLife Guides mountaineering expedition in the 'White Range'. The music 'Wasted (Reprise)" by Pearl Jam from their new CD- 'Backspacer' accompanies this video, all filmed well above 14,000' with temperatures in the 30-40F range.
Chasm Cirque Climbing Video
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- Created on Wednesday, 09 September 2009 04:00
Eli Helmuth of ClimbingLife Guides gives a conditions report from Longs Peak on September 24th, 2009 along with footage from a mixed climbing route on the south face of Mount Lady Washington done with CLG apprentice guide, Mike Arnold. Music from Pearl Jam's highly recommended new CD- Back Spacer. Check it out here.
Alex Honnold in Toulumne
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- Created on Wednesday, 19 August 2009 04:00
Alex Honnold, Tuolumne Meadows California.
Alex Huber soloing 13+
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- Created on Saturday, 22 August 2009 04:00
Rock star Alex Huber free-soloing the 5.13+ route Kommunist.
Chris Sharma on Pachamama (5.15)
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- Created on Monday, 31 August 2009 22:49
Chris Sharma working the moves on his latest 5.15 first ascent, Pachamama (Mother Earth), in Oliana, Spain. This was filmed in March of 2009 and he redpointed the route in May.
Matt Wilder flashes Joe's Valley V10
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- Created on Monday, 22 June 2009 04:00
Beyond Life from Matt Wilder on Vimeo.
After watching video of Matt climb The Path at Lake Louise, I sought out more footage of this talented rock climber. Here's a video from March of Matt climbing a V10 or 14a boulder problem onsight - impressive!
Matt WIlder on The Path (14R)
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- Created on Sunday, 23 August 2009 04:00
Matt Wilder makes a rare repeat of the Lake Louise, Canada rock climbing testpiece 'The Path' , first free'd by Canada's crack climbing ace, Sonnie Trotter.
Alex Honnold in Indian Creek
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- Created on Thursday, 18 June 2009 04:00
Humble, reticent and strong as a bull, Alex Honnold is a crack climbing machine. Check out this video of Honnold crushing it in world-famous Indian Creek, Utah on everything from 5.13 footless tip-jam campusing to inverted offwidthing.
Bachar/Yerian Route Video
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- Created on Sunday, 16 August 2009 04:00
Hayden Kennedy is one of Black Diamond's grassroots athletes and he's a straight crusher, having 5.14s and El Cap free ascents on his resumé. Here's a clip from an upcoming film by Kevin Jaramillo of young Hayden and Yosemite icon Ivo Ninov on the famed Bachar/Yerian (5.11c R/X) in Tuolumne Meadows, California. Follow the link here to read Hayden's thoughts about this climb and the recent death of John Bachar.
Lynn Hill and Katie Brown free Leaning Tower
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- Created on Friday, 29 May 2009 04:00
In the summer of 2005 Lynn Hill and Katie Brown made the first
female "free" ascent of the West Face (V 5.13b/c A0), Leaning Tower,
Yosemite. See Lynn and Katie's climb and find out about the challenges
they faced on the Leaning Tower.
Sonnie Trotter FA of Cobra Crack (5.14)
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- Created on Friday, 29 May 2009 04:00
June, 2006, Squamish, B.C. Sonnie
Trotter climbed the first free ascent of Cobra Crack (5.14). Sonnie
worked the overhanging, thin-finger crack 30--40 times over the past
few years, often rope-soloing the route to dial the moves, before
completing it all-free. Sonnie said, "It's very rare to find a climb
that is both overhanging, and so aesthetic. The fingers fit inside, but
barely -- if the crack was any more shallow, it would be just another
impossible wall, if the crack was much steeper, it may be impossible --
so I consider that route a gift for climbers. I've spent the better
half of 10 years looking for a climb like that. It's perfect."
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