The Power of Shred – overcoming war one board at a time
“Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul is a beautifully shot film that follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan charity project is the world’s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between [...]
New V12 in Florida?
Dead Point Magazine is reporting that Chris Redmond has claimed an ascent with the grade of V12 in South Florida. Check out the write up at Deadpointmag.com. Share this post:
Storming Castles
Chris Brown has published a new piece on his blog about climbing and new routing in California’s Sierra range. Storming Castles is a multi-part photo essay chronicling a seasons worth of summits. Part 1 takes us to Tuolumne and The Hulk while the boys get in shape for bigger and more remote objectives. Share this [...]
Water + Movement + Creativity = Surfing
You can’t fight gravity forever. Sometimes you’ve just got to give in and fall… or slide… and glide… Surfing takes that ultimate ‘no-no’ from climbing, letting go, and turns it into pure flowing movement. The past week saw perfect swells hitting all up and down the East Coast. Florida got its fair share of incredible [...]
shRed Alert
Yo liquid shredsters – this is your formal heads up… The East Coast of Florida is in the midst of an EPIC swell event. Overhead+ with clean conditions will be waiting for you all weekend and into the early part of next week. New to surfing? Try the Cocoa Beach area for waves that are [...]
Climbing and Art
Have you noticed how many climbers and adventurers are also artists? Are those who seek unknown outcomes and are willing to take risks also naturally more creative? Or maybe they’re just overall more passionate? Regardless, when images of the mind are given a foothold in reality, these adventurers are able, in one image, to share [...]
The Bachar Yerian
Cole Gibson has released a short film about Andrew Rock and Jan McCollum attempting to onsight the “Bachar-Yerian” in Tuolumne Meadows, CA. The “B&Y” is one of the most renown rock climbs in the world, but its reputation for being super runout keeps most mortals away. This 4 pitch route up Medlicott Dome was authored [...]
Lincoln Lake Giants
Jon Glassberg of Louder Than 11 has put together a new bouldering video series focusing on Lincoln Lake – a high country bouldering mecca near Mt Evans in Colorado. Every week LT11 releases a new chapter. Check out chapters 1 and 2 below: Share this post:
Andy Irons
RIP Andy Irons. Here’s a good article on Andy from Eastern Surf: WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN Rip Curl Pro Search Pays Tribute To Fallen Brother Andy Irons By Nick McGregor Today dawned much differently than any other day of the Rip Curl Pro Search. Overcast. Gloomy. No sun. Very little wind. Eerily quiet. It’s [...]
Leo Houlding and ‘The Prophet’ – El Cap’s newest Free Route
Leo Houlding and Jason Pickles have finally sent their longstanding 9 year El Cap free project. Some stats from Clint Cummins’ bottomless climbing database: http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eclint/yos/longhf.htm#elnino The Prophet – 5.13? (13p: ? 5.13) FA/FFA – Leo Houlding, Jason Pickles, 10/10 First 5 pitches of Bad to the Bone, then 3 new pitches, a traverse to The [...]
Two From Zahnd
Crushing season is upon us. With temps this weekend barely making it over 70 and no humidity to speak of, the time for climbing is nigh. Get out there and clean up your projects. Check this footage of VV strongman Christian Tartaglia and Brian Capps dispensing some hard test pieces in the Deep South. These [...]
