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- Australia: The Totem Pole
- Morocco: A first ascent in the Anti-Atlas Mountains
- Greece: Kalymnos
- USA: Half Dome
- USA: Indian Creek
- Mexico: El Potrero Chico and El Salto
- Canada: Mount Robson, King of the Rockies
- Canada: The First Rule of Ice Climbing is …
- Thailand: Tonsai
- China: Getu, Yangshuo and Li Ming
- The Dirtbag Life
- The Climbing Flow
- Vanlife
- A free solo adventure that went horribly wrong
- Intestinal Misadventures of the Vertical World
- She’ll be right … maybe
- Enhancing the experience: bigger, bolder, scarier
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It’s been more than three years since this happened. Stoked that it didn’t end my climbing days, or didn’t end my days in general. https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/free-solo-climber-fall-survivor/Cardigan St, 28/5.13 on the black and orange soaked wall of immaculateness that is Taipan. @hoholz going for the send on his last day in the Grampians ...Taipan. Nothing else to add.Archimedes Principle (25/7b/12b) on Eureka Wall in the Grampians, Australia, is a steep crimp-fest that follows a black streak up this amazing, tiger-striped wall of sandstone. Here is Ian Bryant, fighting the dreaded pump that cones for us all ...@jackmasel focusing on the epic moves of Groove Train (33/8c) on Taipan Wall. Grampians, Australia
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Remembering Anna Smith
Published in Terra Incognita, July 2017. Words and photos by Derek Cheng There was the time when her offer to break trail through deep powder snow was dismissed, because she was “only a woman”. Or when she wasn’t offered a … Continue reading