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Profile - Sam Elias - Hard Ice and MixedFri Night Vid

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This week's Friday night video comes from Black Diamond .

Black Diamond say:

As a part-time Black Diamond ski tech rep and a full-time Black Diamond climbing athlete, Sam Elias may have been a ski racer growing up but now he's a rock and ice hard charger with numerous 5.14 and M12 redpoints and first ascents to his credit.

We sent pro lensman Boone Speed out to Colorado to capture a little slice of Sam's life and style, as well as some beastly mixed climbing action.

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Professor Kliq
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11 Feb, 2011
"but now he's a rock and ice hard charger" oh dear! how camp?
11 Feb, 2011
I have to say I rather enjoyed that video!
11 Feb, 2011
If that was what top-level mixed climbing is like now then it's confirmed my suspicion that I will never understand it. Ice climbing I get. But this I just cannot fathom. I'm not denegrating the achievements - I'm sure they're incredibly hard routes to do either as rock or mixed routes and take a lot of skill etc. But why not wait until that small amount of ice disappears and then just rock climb it? Each to their own I suppose...
11 Feb, 2011
that guy is a douche!
11 Feb, 2011
I think what he refers to as mixed climbing we would call dry tooling with a bit of ice, given that the rock is pretty much dry.
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