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About Derek Cheng

Derek Cheng is a journalist and photographer whose work has appeared in publications in several countries, including the US, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the UK. Since he discovered climbing about ten years ago, he has worked as little as possible so he can travel widely, chasing rock faces in all corners of the world - from stalactite-blessed limestone in China, to the alpine granite of the Bugaboos and the Sierra Nevada, to quartzite giants in Morocco. His work can be viewed at dirtbagdispatches.com

Li Ming – China’s Trad Climbing Paradise

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Derek Cheng

Published in Gripped Magazine, April 2012 “Best sandstone crack in the world,” proclaims the guidebook. And Flying Buttress certainly looks the part – an imposing crack on a face that, 40 metres up, splits and then converges again for the … Continue reading →

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