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- Canada: Mount Robson, King of the Rockies
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- The Dirtbag Life
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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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The Dirtbag Diaries – the beach climbing paradise of Tonsai
Published in Adventure Magazine NZ, DEC/JAN 2015/16 by Derek Cheng There are certain inevitabilities when it comes to Tonsai. You will climb on formations that belong on another planet, stalactites far more colossal than your meagre frame, above ocean waves … Continue reading
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