Posted in Adventure, Climbing on Sep 28th, 2012 1 Comment »
The Trango Towers are a group of spectacular rock spires in the Karakoram Range in northwest Pakistan. In this video a radio controlled drone helicopter is used to film the approach and climbing. This is incredible footage shot in a very remote corner of the world. Here’s another video that contains some of the same [...]
Posted in Adventure, Climbing, People, Photographers, Places on Jun 15th, 2012 2 Comments »
Glen Denny Photography Back in the day (1960′s) when Royal Robbins, Tom Frost, Chuck Pratt, Yvon Chouinard, Warren Harding and many others were putting up big walls in Yosemite Valley, Glen Denny was not only along for the ride but was photographing Yosemite climbing and culture. Anyone who’s read about this era in rock climbing [...]
Posted in Adventure, Climbing, People, Process on May 2nd, 2012 2 Comments »
Patagonia’s Founder Is America’s Most Unlikely Business Guru This is a great piece on the history of the clothing company Patagonia and a mini-biography of its founder Yvon Chouinard. I happen to have a few original Chouinard pitons I bought from him in the Camp 4 parking lot in Yosemite Valley in the 1970′s. I’ve [...]
Posted in Adventure, Climbing, Social Software on Dec 10th, 2011 No Comments »
On Ledge and Online: Solitary Sport Turns Social Social media and handheld devices for posting is invading what used to be solitary adventure sports. Many have mixed feelings about this. As one who posts hike progress on Path and Instagram who am I to say that this is a bad idea. It will be interesting [...]
Posted in Adventure, Art and Design, Climbing on Dec 7th, 2011 4 Comments »
Refuge Gervasutti by LEAPfactory This is a great idea: a prefab climber/hiker refuge that’s airlifted into place and assembled in a few hours. The Airstream trailer of refuges. I wonder how this idea might translate into low cost housing on level ground? My only concern is that in the example refuge the front door is [...]
Posted in Adventure, Climbing, People, Video on Oct 3rd, 2011 2 Comments »
60 Minutes ran a piece last night about rock climber Alex Honnold free soloing a serious 2000 foot route on Sentinel in Yosemite Valley. I love seeing and hearing veteran climber John Long (also a legend but from my generation) commenting to Lara Logan. Both Honnold and Long are arguably two of the best climbers [...]
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