Rock Climbing A to Z series
March 31, 2005
Shady Goings On has started a nice series of posts entitled Rock Climbing A to Z with the first on N for nuts.
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2 dead after climbing Mt. Pumori in Nepal
March 31, 2005
A Nepali guide and a Panamanian climber died after returning from Mount Pumori in Nepal.
Both of them successfully climbed Mt. Pumori on March 25, but while returning, they climbed 100 meters down and unfortunately slipped and fell down in mountain trench of 500 meter depth which led them to the death.
These two climbers were on the 11 member International Pumori Expedition 2005 team.
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Blog of the day
March 30, 2005
I just saw that All Climbing was posted as the “blog of the day”. Any publicity, no matter how small or large is welcome. Thanks!
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Books
March 30, 2005
The following is a list of highly recommended climbing books:
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Climbing Performance
How to Rock Climb: Better Bouldering (How To Climb Series)
How to Rock Climb!, 4th edition (How To Climb Series)
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Gym climbing musings
March 30, 2005
FloridaToday.com (of all places) has one of the funniest descriptions of a gym bouldering area:
The high school senior continues to train in the gym’s bouldering section, a cavernous area that looks a bit like the alien bar scene in “Star Wars,” with walls splotched with wild colors and shapes.
You have to appreciate any reference to Star Wars and climbing.
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The Great Adirondack Trail Run
March 30, 2005
I just received this information from The Mountaineer:
The Mountaineer is hosting the first annual Great Adirondack Trail Run on June 25th. The run is a benefit event for the Ausable & Bouquet River Associations and is sponsored by Patagonia as part of their Environmental Benefits Program. Secondary sponsors include Salomon, Smartwool, Montrail, Honey Stinger and Trail Runner Magazine.
Read more
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Climbing news links, March 29, 2005
March 29, 2005
How to touch Everest’s base
Himalayan challenge for Everest base camp.
Rock climbers have an outlet a stone’s throw away
Climbing in the San Diego, California area.
Michigan woman sets out to conquer highest peak in the Americas
Aconcagua climb to raise money for adventure opportunities for local families.
Menno Boermans: Frozen images from Broad Peak
Photographer brings back amazing pictures.
Nepal offers the best trekking in the world
Is Nepal trekking safe?
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The 10 essentials for emergency wilderness survival
March 28, 2005
The bible of climbing and mountaineering instructional literature is Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills published by The Mountaineers. I’ve read and studied that book cover to cover numerous times and now the experts from The Mountaineers have put out some guidelines for wilderness survival. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a useful article on the ten essentials for emergency wilderness survival taken from The Mountaineers. The article also has a safety checklist that can be printed out.
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The legend of sweet death
March 28, 2005
MountEverest.net has an article on phenomena of “sweet death”.
After last year’s Everest season, climbers trickled in to ExWeb’s office bringing with them tales of summits but also some alarming news. All over the mountain, climbers had been falling asleep. All had been shook awake by Sherpas; most weren’t aware how close to death they’d been. Almost all were novices to 8000+ altitude. They didn’t feel cold, or thirsty, or too tired. They just had an overpowering urge to sit down, close their eyes - and rest for a while.
Discussed are mountain illnesses and how they progress including the following details: “When dying a ‘sweet death’, you feel an innocent desire to lie down and sleep. A certain feeling of wellness overcomes you. And with a sardonic ‘Mona Lisa’ smile on your face, you die.”
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Avalanche Kills Climber at Quandary Peak
March 28, 2005
MountainZone.com reports that two climbers were hit by an avalanche at Quandary Peak in Colorado’s Tenmile Range. One of the climbers emerged with only minor injuries while the other died.
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Babes on belay
March 22, 2005
I’ve seen some recent email traffic as well as some posts (rexblog, fishbowlNY) regarding the latest issue of Outside magazine. An article entitled “Babes on Belay” and the accompanying picture shoot sure have some people up in arms. I haven’t read the article yet, nor was I planning to, but it has now been adding to my reading list!
I can understand non-climbers clamoring about this, but what are real climbers doing reading Outside anyway?
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Site reconstruction under way
March 22, 2005
You may have noticed that the site is slightly different the past two days. Two major changes have occurred. First, using Movable Type as the publishing software was just simply not working. There are many aspects of MT that I like, but there were too many errors occurring and numerous maintenance issues I had to spend time on. Thus, the site is now successfully (I think?) migrated to WordPress 1.5. WordPress offers many advantages and I won’t get into them here. Suffice it to say that WordPress is just flat out easier to use than any other blog software I tried.
The second big piece of news is that the All Climbing site is now formally part of the EvovedBlogs Network. This association will provide numerous benefits, not the least of which will be increased traffic and readership.
If anyone finds broken links, please let me know. I tried my best when migrating to keep things the same. Where that was not possible, I set up redirects in my htaccess file (ok, there were a lot if them).
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