In reply to UKC News: brilliant stuff. Really enjoyed reading that. I remember the George Lowe account in games climbers play, harrowing stuff. I think that was the first climbing story I read as a kid and really understood what commitment means.
In reply to John Kelly: Thanks for that link, an awesome set of photos of a historic ascent on one of the gnarliest mountain faces on the planet. Inspiring stuff.
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This week's Friday Night Video is about the pure obsession and effort behind a hard trad first ascent by Québécois/Australian Jacques Beaudoin. Mother Earth (8b) is a stunning sixty-degree thin crack climb hidden amongst bushland that has been...