This week's Friday Night Video takes us to Brazil in 2023 when Felipe Camargo travelled across the country with his brother, Bruno, hoping a leave a legacy of hard routes for future generations of climbers. Inspired by surf and skate films, the pair filmed five first ascents, including the first 9a+ in South America, Auto Retrato.
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Return to Latest NewsFelipe Camargo is a Brazilian sport climber and boulderer. He kickstarted his climbing career by winning the 2006 Brazilian Climbing Championships and has climbed up to Font 8C and French 9b.
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In 2024 while on a trip to Argentina, Brazilian Felipe Camargo was invited by the Colombian climbing community to tackle a legendary project bolted in 2015. Over 6 days, with unwavering support and cheers from the local community, Felipe climbe...
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 bushla...
In this week's Friday Night Video, Connor Herson takes on one of the world's hardest crack climbs: Magic Line (8c+), in Yosemite Valley. First established by Ron Kauk in 1996, the climb has seen only five ascents since that time....
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Spent a month at Serra Do Cipo last July. Unique formations on super solid limestone. Very friendly scene with climbers from all over S. America. Perfect weather in June and July. Highly recommended.