viernes, 25 de abril de 2014

Mountain of Storms (1968) Excerpt with Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins & D...








Excerpt from the film Mountain of Storms. In 1968, Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins, Dick Dorworth, Chris Jones and Lito Tejada-Flores piled into a secondhand van and drove 5,000 miles from Ventura to Patagonia to put up a new route on Cerro Fitz Roy. Purchase the full movie at http://www.patagonia.com/ or enjoy similar videos at http://www.patagonia.com/tinshed

John Cunningham and Creagh Dhu climbing The Cobbler in 1978







John Cunningham and Creagh Dhu climbing The Cobbler in 1978.

John is on Recess Route, climbing a summer route in snowy conditions.

Taken from the TV series 'Mountain Days', full credits left on the video.

Thanks to all who have helped me find this...

domingo, 20 de abril de 2014

Au pied du mur: Ascension de la face Nord des Dolomites (1961) Con sub...







Excepcional documento realizado por Lothar Brandler joven reportero de Múnich: El montañero italiano experimentado, Cino Solda, y el alemán Wulf Scheffler suben la difícil directísima de la cara norte de Lavaredo, en las Dolomitas. (1961)
(El vídeo esta totalmente silenciado debido a una reclamación de copyright sobre el audio del mismo, aunque se pueden poner los subtítulos en francés)

viernes, 4 de abril de 2014

ABYSS - North America's Highest Bouldering







ABYSS, the latest viral film from Louder Than Eleven, provides an insider's look at rock climbing development. Exploration of secret, alpine climbing terrain high above Colorado's Front Range has created a flurry of debate regarding the philosophy, secrecy and ethics of development. Culminating in Ben Spannuth's FA of one of the world's highest elevation 5.14s, ABYSS opens the floodgates of passionate debate within the climbing community.

The scandal unfolds in this 48-minute piece, featuring such climbing talents as Paige Claassen, Matty Hong, Chris Schulte, Mayan Smith-Gobat, Dave Wetmore and Matt Wilder and narrated by Jon Glassberg. Additional commentary from the insightful minds of Peter Beal, Herman Feissner, Joe Kinder, Brady Robinson, Ben Scott, Chris Sharma, John Sherman, and Clark Shelk.

The Swiss Account ~ Feature Length






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Louder Than 11 in association with Traversi Entertainment present "The Swiss Account". A documentary film about the lives of three American friends bouldering in Switzerland during the fall of 2010. Follow Jon Glassberg, Connor Griffith and Carlo Traversi as they climb on some of the worlds finest Granite boulder problems in Brione, Cresciano, Chironico and Magic Wood. Special guests Paul Robinson, Alex Puccio, Dai Koyamada and Adam Ondra join forces with the American team to climb over 40 boulders in the mountains of Southern Switzerland.

Jacopo Larcher climbs "Prinzip Hoffnung" [ 8b/8b+ E9/E10 ]





Publicado el 4/04/2014

Bürser Platte, Voralberg -- Austria: Jacopo Larcher has made the third ascent of Beat Kammerlander "Prinzip Hoffnung" (8b/+).

Beat bolted it in 1997, but in 2009, at the age of 50, he decided to remove the bolts and climb it with trad gear: he made it one of the hardest trad route in the world.

With two 9a achieved, Jacopo - one of the leading Italian climbers - has worked strongly in order to made it. This is the way he describe his last challenge.

Keen Roof | 8B/V13



Keen Roof, Raven Tor, Peak District, UK

"Sangre de Toro" Rote Wand by Alex Luger (English)






1/04/2014

First ascent of Sangre de Toro 8b+, 7 pitches, June and July 2012. First free ascent 29th of August. Protection trad+bolts.