I wanted to write about the South African trad exchange which now seems like a distant memory from the beginning of the year.
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MCSA – BMC Trad Exchange: UK Leg (29th April – 10th May)
After the Brits survived the SA leg of the exchange in Feb-March, they organised a tour-de-force of awesome and famous routes in The Peak District, north Wales and Pembroke.
Mikey Schaefer and FORCE
A film by Duct Tape Then Beer film. Force is the collected footage from 10 years of Mikey Schaefer’s climbs, summits and misadventures in Patagonia
Julia Wakeling and friends bouldering around Bishop
Julia Wakeling recently spent a couple of weeks of bouldering (and skiing) around Bishop, California. December 2014
South African team summit Fitzroy
Gosia Lipinska, Julia Wakeling and Hector Pringle summited Fitzroy on Saturday night and are down safe and partying tonight.
Julia Wakeling Interview
Julia Wakeling is one of SA’s top climbers excelling particularity in trad climbing.
Chicks on the Nose
I stretched up and just got a tiny offset nut into the only pin-scar I could reach. I tugged on it from my precarious perch balancing high in my etriers.
India Big Wall Expedition
This plan, like all good climbing plans, was originally hatched at 1am after a heavy party to celebrate Bernard and Linda’s wedding.
Team heads off to attempt first ascents in Northern India
The Zanskar Region in the Himalaya of Northern India is a relatively unexplored mecca of sheer granite walls and 6000m peaks. Inaccessible for 8 months of the year, you can imagine the excitement when Julia Wakeling got the call for a planned trip to this mountain fortress.
