From the monthly archives:
Anyone who has climbed ice knows how fragile and changing the medium can be. For more insight into the science of ice formation, I recommend this article on how ice climbs form, deform, change, and fall right apart. An excerpt from the author, Will McCarthy: Ice is weird stuff, though climbing it might just be [...]
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The SwissInfo web site reports that Anderl Heckmair died today at age 98. Heckmair led the first team up the north face of the Eiger in 1938. Additional reading: Leader of the first ascent of the north face of the Eiger Anderl Heckmair
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Always useful if you’re a traveling climber, here are a few rock climbing grade comparison tables from a variety of sources: ABC-of-Rock Climbing.com Willerup.com
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The latest edition of Outside Magazine online has an article on Stephen Koch’s attempt to snowboard Everest. Interestingly, I saw him give a slide show at the Mt. Washington Valley Ice Festival several years ago. Even then he was commenting on his plans to summit Everest and then descend by snowboard. Unable to summit last [...]
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Judging from the number of hits I’m seeing on my previous finger injury posts, it looks like this is a popular topic. Unfortunately, this likely mirrors how common finger injuries are with climbers. I recently found a site dedicated just to climbing injuries of the shoulders, elbows, and fingers called ClimbingInjuries.com. An informative site, what’s [...]
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