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Video Friday – 6/1/2012

Narc — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:31:54 +0000

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Bouldering World Cup At This Weekend’s 2012 Teva Mountain Games

Narc — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:00:35 +0000

Tomorrow marks the start of the annual bouldering World Cup competition at the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, CO. 89 climbers, including 27 Americans, are set to compete. You’ll be able to watch live at the following times (MDT):

Friday – 10 am – Female Qualifiers
Friday – 3 pm – Male Qualifiers
Saturday – 10 am – Semi-finals
Saturday – 4:45 pm – Finals

To whet your appetite are the highlights from last year’s comp for both the men and the women. There’s aslo this official highlight reel as well¹:

Anyone recognize that guy in the background of the video’s preview image? ↩

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Age Is Just A Number

Narc — Wed, 30 May 2012 13:08:22 +0000

In case you needed more proof that people both old and young can climb at a high level:

Via Mike Doyle is this excellent video of Bill Ramsey, who turned 52 shortly after it was made, climbing on Reverse Polarity (5.14b) at Mt. Potosi.
8a.nu reports that 42-year-old Yuji Hirayama has done the FA of a route called Cafecito Necesito that should be around 5.14b or c.

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Yvon Chouinard: Patagonia’s Unlikely Business Guru

Narc — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:14:34 +0000

Cool article in the Wall Street Journal about Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard:

The evolution of Patagonia into a clothing company began in the 1970s, when Chouinard—then a world-class mountain climber and a designer of mountaineering equipment—started importing durable rugby shirts and corduroy knickers for his climber pals to wear. Soon enough, Patagonia was designing its own line of clothes. Soon after that, sales of the clothes far outstripped sales of the climbing gear. This is how Yvon Chouinard became an accidental apparel mogul.

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Video Friday – 5/25/2012

Narc — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:00:06 +0000

Well, this week’s most popular video is no longer with us. An intrepid Youtube user with relaxed morals posted the footage from Welcome To The Hood of Daniel Woods flashing Entlinge. Woods then posted about it on Facebook before realizing that maybe it wasn’t so cool for the money shot from his movie to be out there for free. The movie has since been removed from Youtube but not before racking up over 16,000 views the last time I checked. Oops…

Update: Or not…the movie is back up now on Vimeo

It’s hard to beat the slate of movies that were in last week’s Video Friday, but here are some movies to enjoy on a weekend you should probably be out climbing during anyhow.

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Harrington & Elias Summit Everest

Narc — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:10:23 +0000

Congratulations are in order to Emily Harrington and Sam Elias who both stood on top of Mt. Everest not too long ago as a part of their North Face/Nat Geo expedition. Say what you will about the current state of climbing on Everest, what with this season making news for expeditions canceling their season due to bad conditions, massive crowding and several deaths, but summiting Everest is still a pretty cool accomplishment. Best of luck to Harrington and Elias on a safe passage back to base camp and then back home.

Stood on the top of Mount Everest this morning. En route back down to the real world. @thenorthface @natgeo @MayoClinic @MontanaState

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Stood on the top of the world this morning, en route back down safely. The North Face National Geographic Mayo... http://t.co/YnKd94fu

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Emily Harrington

Emily Harrington on the summit of Mt. Everest with 8,481 meter Makalu in the background

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UBC Pro Tour Heading To The Northwest

Narc — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:07:23 +0000

The UBC Pro Tour has added stop at Stone Gardens Bellevue to their 2012 calendar with a $17,000 cash purse set to lure bouldering’s elite to Seattle September 21-22nd. This is the first UBC comp to take place in a climbing gym in quite some time, so it will be interesting to see how that environment differs from the bigger venues they’ve been operating the past couple of years.

The inevitable question many of you may want an answer to is whether or not there will be a live feed. I wish I could confirm that there would be, but the answer to that question remains to be seen. There wasn’t enough support in the industry to get a feed running at ABS Nationals, but there is still plenty of time for things to get sorted out for this comp. Let’s hope it happens.

Here’s the full release:

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Oz

Narc — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:25:46 +0000

This incredible photo essay by Keith Ladzinski from his trip to Australia last year with Dave Graham, Nalle Hukkataival and Ian Dory would make a great coffee table book don’t you think? (h/t Josh on twitter for the link).

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“You think it will be cool till it isn’t fun anymore”

Narc — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:14:51 +0000

The North Face catches up with their athlete Alex Honnold to find out a bit more about his and Tommy Caldwell’s big day in Yosemite, his plans to rope solo the same feat for his segment in the Reel Rock Tour and a casual mention of how he free soloed the West Face of El Cap. As to how the idea for the triple link-up came about:

You do one route and you have a lot of time left in the day and you think, “Oh maybe we should have done two.” And eventually you do two with time left over and you say, “maybe we could do three…” and we did three and we didn’t have any time left over so we said, “we’re over it.”

More detail and pictures from Kelly Cordes on the big day here as well.

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Bad Girls Club (5.14d) Repeated By Jon Cardwell

Narc — Tue, 22 May 2012 22:03:25 +0000

According to his 8a scorecard, Jon Cardwell has repeated Bad Girls Club, a 5.14d in Rifle, CO first done last summer by Matty Hong.

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