World Class Climbing Arena Coming to Bozeman By Doug Millen, NEice.com A team of Montana State University students has won a local competition to design an 85-foot ice climbing tower as part of an attempt to lure the world cup of ice climbing to Bozeman. The design of the project was initiated by a student […]
Saser Kangri II 7,513 meters (24,649 feet) Mark Richey, Steve Swenson, and Freddie Wilkinson have climbed the east peak of Saser Kangri II in the Eastern Karakoram mountains of India’s Kashmir region. This was believed to be the second-highest unclimbed peak in the world. Details of the climb are not available yet. More at: Climbing.com […]
Creatures of Habit! by Doug Millen, NEice.com Have a look at this graph. Visits per day. The high points are almost always Monday, and the low points are mostly Saturday. It Makes perfect sense. Out climbing on the weekend (Saturday), at work on Monday, bored, checking out what happened and posting new stuff from the […]
New Smartphone App by Jimbl Android System A Camping planner pre-populated and customizable A configurable planner with everything needed for any camping trip. Comes pre-populated with more than 225 camping items. If you are a camping person, this is all you need to ensure you don’t forget anything. Check/uncheck and reuse every-time you go on […]
The “Lynx“ Petzls latest High End Crampon Available SEPTEMBER 2011 $245.00 MSRP The new Lynx crampon from Petzl offers a forged and easily replaceable monopoint or dual point. The Lynx will replace the M10. A much lighter replacement and should make a lot of people happy. Modular crampon for ice and mixed climbing, with new LEVERLOCK […]
Time to go “UP!” The ice climbing season is coming to an end and the lower elevation climbs are melting away. But for the die hard ice climber, the best climbing is just beginning. The snow in the higher elevations is consolidating, the nights are cold, and the days are long and warm, Spring climbing […]
BD athlete Raphael Slawinski makes first ascent of The Peach (WI 5 M8), a multi-pitch, bolt-free mixed line in the Canadian Rockies. by The Black Diamond Crew Black Diamond athlete Raph Slawinski has climbed ice all over the Canadian Rockies from fat ice flows to desperate mixed lines, bagging tons of first ascents along the […]
Simian – NEI 5+ R/X Bold New Line at Poke-O-Moonshine Ian Osteyee of Adrondack Mountain Guides on his new route “Simian“. Photo by Bill Simes
Simian Poko-O-Moonshine, NY NEI 5+R/X, M-fun, 450-500 ft FA 3/9/11 – Ian Osteyee & Bill Simes “Basically no gear on the first pitch until the topout ledge, then just a 10cm screw. Similar to Stingray but no anchor to clip halfway up. They went up the face where summer rock routes Cooney-Norton, 10b and Cosmopolitan […]
by Petzl-sport Scottish Icetrip – English from Petzl-sport on Vimeo.If there is one place on earth where climbers celebrate the arrival of the next snowstorm, it has to be Scotland. Each winter, pounded by the North Atlantic winds, the Scottish Highlands are covered by a layer of snow and frost at the mercy of weather […]
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