Yvon Chouinard interview on TreeHugger
February 22, 2008
TreeHugger has an interesting interview with the founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard.
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Popularity: 14% [?]
Climb like Dean Potter ad
June 22, 2006
This is pretty funny - a humorous take on the Dean Potter climbing Delicate Arch controversy.
Climb like Dean - but without all of the controversy. Build a full-size Delicate Arch climbing wall in your own back yard - plans included!
This blueprint is an actual public service ad (PDF link) from the National Parks Conservation Association. (via The Piton)
Popularity: 5% [?]
Climbing tech tips
May 19, 2006
Climbing Magazine has all their tech tips nicely listed on their site now.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Rock Climbing Europe
May 15, 2006
Stewart Green, author of Rock Climbing Colorado and other guides, has written a new climbing guide to Europe called Rock Climbing Europe.
“Rock Climbing Europe” is an oversized, sturdily bound paperback guide that Green finished after 15 trips to Europe for research, climbing and interviews with climbers.
“When I started going to Europe in the 1990s, it was difficult to find information there,” he says. “You had to translate guides from French and Italian, and all you had were hand-drawn topo maps and no photographs.”
Green’s guide includes climbing routes with maps and photos in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Germany and Norway - all places, he says, that are steeped in a great climbing tradition.
The result: a climbing book that is part routefinder, part travel guide and part travelogue, with tidbits about the weather (the best climbing in Belgium’s Freyr is between April and late October); cultural highlights (Gothic architecture abounds in Bolzano, Italy); and food (Provencal cooking in the south of France features olive oil and garlic).
Popularity: 23% [?]
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