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Entries Tagged as 'Climbing Featured Video'

“Free Range Turkey”: Dispatch 4

May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Climb, Climbing, Climbing Featured Video, Hike

Over the top: Boulder, CO climber/boulderer Daniel Woods explains how to manage “one digit monos” during his climbing trek through Turkey with Renan Ozturk.

Produced by Camp4 Collective

“Free Range Turkey”: Dispatch 6

April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Climb, Climbing, Climbing Featured Video, Hike

Free climbing above the ocean: Boulder, Colorado climber Renan Ozturk and his crew (James Pearson, Sam Elias, and Eneko Pou) “deep-water soloing” the sea cliffs near Olympos, Turkey.

Produced by Camp4 Collective

“Sending In Indian Creek, Utah”

April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Climb, Climbing, Climbing Featured Video, Hike

Indian Creek crack climbing: Sacramento, CA climber Alex Honnold is “humble, reticent, and a crack climbing machine.” Watch Honnold work the world-famous walls of Indian Creek, Utah (about an hour south of Moab).

“The focus is amazing. It’s hard to describe the feeling of perfection when you solo… that you’re doing everything with precision. When I lead I can often just charge ahead. Soloing requires more.” Alpinist

Produced by Black Diamond Equipment

“180 South: Conquerors of the Useless”

April 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Climb, Climbing, Climbing Featured Video, Environment, Mountaineering, Movies, Surfing, Surfing Featured Video, Travel Featured Video

180° South: Conquerors of the Useless: “In 1968, Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins set out to surf, ski and climb their way to Patagonia. The wild places they found later motivated them to protect the environment. Inspired by this journey, Jeff Johnson and Woodshed Films set sail on a voyage to South America to climb a mythical peak called Corcovado with Chouindard and Tompkins,” as told by Fletcher Chouinard.

The journey also was chronicled in a behind the scenes book of the same name, written by Yvon Chouinard and Chris Malloy and photographed Jeff Johnson.

Produced by Woodshed Films

Tawoche 2K10 Dispatches: 3

April 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Climb, Climbing, Climbing Featured Video, Dwell, Dwell Featured Video, Hike, Top Stories - Dwell

Tawoche Base Camp in the Khumbu region of the Nepalese Himalaya: Climbers Renan Ozturk and Cory Richards attempt to scale and survive the south central “buttress” of Tawoche

“We have never actually been accused of being the sharpest bowling balls on the shelf… Tawoche in all her glory rises above us another 5,000 ft. With the view, comes the all to familiar rollercoaster of emotions that precede any alpine endeavor. Balancing fear and intuition, angst and energy, the action vs. the idea… they all flow into your already pounding cranial vault, leaving you exhausted before you’ve left the ground.”

Produced by Rock Monkey Media

“A Day In The Life”

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Climb, Climbing, Climbing Featured Video, Hike, Mountaineering

A glimpse into the life of Bozeman, MT climber Conrad Anker–famous for his challenging ascents in the Himalayas and Antarctica–scaling Eldorado Canyon’s Naked Edge (near Boulder, CO).

“Conrad Anker’s specialty, simply put, is climbing the most technically challenging terrain in the world. This quest has taken him from the mountains of Alaska and Antarctica to the big walls of Patagonia and Baffin Island and the massive peaks of the Himalaya,” The North Face.

Produced by Rock Monkey Media

“Lucid Dreaming”

April 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Bouldering, Climb, Climbing, Climbing Featured Video, Hike

22-year-old Paul Robinson of Boulder, CO recently completed a grade V16 bouldering problem at the Buttermilks in Bishop, California. “The work that I do is trying to create a sense of perfection…”

Produced by the PranaCollective

Climbing Indian Creek

March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Climbing Featured Video

Crack climbing enthusiasts (about an hour south of Moab): Sinuhe Xavier directed this film during the early part of November, at the peak of the Indian Creek’s climbing season. Ace Kvale was kind enough to invite Sinuhe along for one of his still shoots with Marmot athletes, who also happen to be some of the best mountain guides in the world. This is the culmination of those two days in the desert.

Produced by Marmot

Climbing El Capitan’s Southeast Face

March 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Climbing Featured Video

Climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson spent nearly two months last fall in Yosemite “attempting to free a line” on El Capitan’s southeast face.

“I fully realize that free climbing the Dawn Wall of El Capitan is improbable. Miles of blank steep granite—no true weaknesses to follow… I’ve spent parts of two years either rope soloing up or rapping down from the top, swinging around, searching and trying the moves. I’m trying to force a paradigm shift with this route, and the prospect of linking together at least seven pitches of 5.14 to 5.14+ and another ten in the 5.13 range is daunting,” Tommy Caldwell.

Produced by Black Diamond

Climbing Through Fear & Pain

March 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Climbing Featured Video

Fear and rock: Austrian climbers Andrea Maruna (beginning to climb again after a serious fall) and Angelika Rainer display their unbending will to battle the mountain’s mental and physical challenges.

“I think you have to listen to what you feel yourself in your own body and that is what gives you more strength than the doctors who say, ‘No, that won’t function anymore,’” Andrea Maruna.

Produced by Sebastian Woeber