by Tom Markiewicz on April 7, 2009
Gregory Mountain Products founder, Wayne Gregory, discusses how to fit a pack. In the video, Gregory states “people don’t buy packs to fit their bodies, they buy packs to dump their gear in.” He then proceeds to show the better way of fitting packs. (via Trailspace)
by Tom Markiewicz on January 6, 2009
Jonathan Thesenga and Brittany Griffith visit the climbing at Stolby, a central Siberian nature reserve, where all the locals free solo – many barefoot and with homemade rubber climbing shoes. Watching dozens of people simultaneously soloing these routes is amazing and frightening at the same time. Check it out: (via @sudarkoff)
by Tom Markiewicz on December 23, 2008
On the theme of climbing access, please take some time to view the documentary Heart of Stone, a film from Andrew Kornylak and Josh Fowler. This is a fantastic, must-watch climbing video. I spent a lot of time climbing and bouldering in the Southeast and this film really hits home emphasizing the access issues as [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on October 7, 2008
Echo Wall is an upcoming climbing film by Dave MacLeod focusing on cutting edge trad climbing on the north face of Ben Nevis in Scotland. The following is a trailer of the film due late October 2008:
by Tom Markiewicz on September 8, 2008
The Reel Rock Tour kicks off in Boulder, Colorado this Wednesday. The third annual edition of the event will eventually hit over 80 cities to show climbing films including those from Sender Films and Big UP Productions. This year there is also a filmmaking competition, where anyone could submit their best three minute climbing film. [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on July 4, 2008
Here are two interesting videos from bouldering crash pad maker Organic on how they design and make their crashpads. (via Organic and B3bouldering)
by Tom Markiewicz on May 23, 2008
An interview with the mountaineering great, Reinhold Messner via The Adventure Blog.
by Tom Markiewicz on February 23, 2008
From Andrew Hyde via Twitter, a climbing video of Chris Sharma on the first ascent of Dreamcatcher (an excerpt from Dosage 4) This is an excellent, high production climbing video of Sharma. Enjoy the clip.
by Tom Markiewicz on December 31, 2007
The cold weather keeps me thinking of ice climbing. Here’s a video of Will Gadd climbing icebergs. A higher quality MOV video can also be found at National Geographic.
by Tom Markiewicz on October 25, 2007
Western Colorado Climbing posts a great little rant on aid climbing. His discussion of grading aid routes is quite humorous.
by Tom Markiewicz on October 22, 2007
ChossMonkey posts a climbing video of a trip to the Needles, California. There’s some nice footage of multi-pitch trad climbing on a variety of routes nicely put together.
by Tom Markiewicz on October 12, 2007
Posing Productions has a trailer up for its new film, Psyche, premiering at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival. (via Get Outdoors)