Here is one special trick for retrieving those nice, shiny cams of yours that are hopelessly stuck behind a flake: expand the flake.
How? Flakes are very often not really solid rock. Even though they may not seem to yield to your banging and pulling, they usually do move a bit. If you can’t retrieve the [...]
Alex and Thomas Huber broke the 5-year-old speed record on the fabled line on El Capitan - The Nose. They were faster than Yuji Hirayama and Hans Florine by mere 20 seconds (!) and the new record ascent time was set to 2:48:35. They were plagued by Thomas dropping one aider on the Great [...]
In few hours, I am leaving for the long-expected and planned climbing trip to Paklenica, Croatia. Me, my sister and Lidač are going to challenge the 350 meters high north-western face of Anića Kuk. Our list includes:
Mosoraški, 5c - the classic of classics on the big wall.
Zgrešeni, 5b - a popular piece on the Debeli [...]
This place is destined to be the future of my current blog at ropedup.blogspot.com.
Update: Riši has come at last. My old blog will no longer be updated.
On Saturday I exchanged rock for wood and went to help my friend Marc with cleaning dead branches off the trees on his yard. Alex was my trustworthy belayer, albeit harnessless - he made a make-shift chest harness using the bowline knot. I climbed 4 trees with the difficulty ranging between 5.3 and 5.6, mostly [...]
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