Category: Climbing
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On Assignment with Jimmy Chin (Video)
Here’s a really great video about Jimmy Chin, a photographer on assignment for National Geographic documenting the climbing culture in Yosemite. He’s a great photographer and what he goes through to get a shot is stupendous.
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3 Climbers Rescued After Night on El Cap
It wasn’t exactly the way most people plan to spend the night in Yosemite.
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What are you going to do today?
It was a blustery day in 1958 when after 45 days (non-consecutive) of climbing Warren Harding and his group of stalwarts did what many thought could not be done. He climbed the nose of El Capitan.
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Climbing in Yosemite #3 on Thrill Seekers List
El Capitan: start of the Nose. Photo by Jacqueline Pogg posted on Flickr by Xavier de Jauréguiberry. Travel Guide Lonely Planet has come out with a list of the Worlds Top 10 Experiences for Thrill Seekers and guess what’s in the number 3 spot on the list, climbing in Yosemite. Also on the list (in…
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Yosemite Biologist Killed After Fall Rock Climbing on Mt. Dana
Jeff Maurer, a Wildlife Biologist at Yosemite National Park, died Sunday, August 30, after falling from the Third Pillar, a technical rock climbing route on Mount Dana. Maurer, 47, has worked in the park for the past 3 years. Prior to that, he worked at the Yosemite Institute, taught at the University of California at…
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Alex Honnold Free Soloing Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome
Alex Honnold free solos Half Dome from Hennie vJ on Vimeo. Wow. He does it so non-chalantly too. Just like, “doo dee doo…walk in the park.”
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Ask A Climber
Visitors peer through a telescope at climbers on El Capitan. Photo by Tom Evans. It’s not uncommon to see throngs of visitors standing along Northside Drive by El Cap staring up at the climbers. I mean, it DOES take a certain amount of something to risk great bodily injury in the name of fun. I…
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Climbing 101 (video)
I’m not the person to ask about climbing. Me and high places, well, we don’t get a long. But if you’re looking to get into climbing this video has some pretty good information for the beginner. (via kathytucker88)
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Getting Ready for Something Bigger
Here’s a really cool teaser to a climbing movie that’s coming soon. In the teaser Leo Houlding hones his big walling skills and meets up with Asagrd climbing partner, Sean ‘Stanley’ Leary. The film centers around climbing preparations and climbing Mount Asgard in Auyuittuq National Park, Canada. Pretty cool. If you’re a fan of climbing…
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Peregrine Falcons Close Climbing Routes
One of the many types of full time avian residents found in Yosemite are Peregrine Falcons. Since most falcons make their nests in high cliff walls or dead tree snags Yosemite makes an ideal breeding ground. Each year the National Park Service closes several climbing routes until nesting pairs have finished fledging their young and…