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Crux by Gabriel Tallent review – a passionate portrait of teenage climbers
11+ hour, 16+ min ago (1148+ words) The follow-up to My Absolute Darling, this tale of best friends who dream of a better life features exquisite sports writing and a lovable heroine " but the plotting is unconvincingTamma and Dan are 17-year-old best friends growing up in a…...
Cairn review – obsession, suffering and awe in a climbing game that hits exhausting new heights
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (650+ words) Cairn review " obsession, suffering and awe in a climbing game that hits exhausting new heights'The Guardian Cairn review " obsession, suffering and awe in a climbing game that hits exhausting new heights PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox; The Game BakersA punishing, beautiful survival…...
Alex Honnold successfully free solos Taipei 101 in live Netflix climb
1+ week, 3+ day ago (309+ words) Honnold climbs 508m Taipei 101 without ropes Netflix airs climb live after rain delay Feat sparks awe " and ethical unease American rock climber Alex Honnold climbed the Taipei 101 skyscraper on Sunday without any ropes or protective equipment. Cheers erupted from a gathered…...
My rookie era: peer pressure brought me to bouldering, then I found calm in ‘the way of the wall’
2+ week, 6+ day ago (342+ words) My friends were already experienced climbers, while I was starting at zero. My first day brought many hard lessons Read more summer essentials At first, I didn't notice it. When it became too big to not notice, I ignored it....
Rock star: Sasha DiGiulian on making history with a ‘crazy, audacious’ climb of El Capitán
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (934+ words) The 33-year-old hit rain, lightning, snow and ice in Yosemite " and still became the first woman to ascend the Platinum route Big-wall climber Sasha DiGiulian had spent the last three years preparing for a career-defining ascent of one of the…...
‘It’s all about trusting yourself, pushing your limits’: Malawi’s first climbers take their sport to new heights
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (965+ words) From a wall in a back garden to their first international contest, a dedicated community of young climbers is attracting new recruits in the south African country Emmanuel Jekete was at secondary school in 2019 when his mother's Canadian boss invited…...
Thrill-seeking made me feel alive – until the day I hurtled down a volcano on a mountain bike | Gary Nunn
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (746+ words) My bungee-jumping and skydiving days are over because I can't shake the visceral memory of learning that I'm not invincible I'd just completed the spectacular four-day Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu and, drunk on nature, was feeling dangerously invincible....
‘Bloody fingers with pink nails”: how Sasha DiGiulian broke climbing’s glass ceiling
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (873+ words) Big wall climber Sasha DiGiulian hopes to be remembered for establishing a new baseline for female climbers, including how they are recognized, treated and paid In August 2013, Sasha DiGiulian traveled to the Dolomites to attempt Bellavista, a dream years in…...
I’m told there is an age at which falling over becomes ‘having a fall’. But I’m not nearly ready for that | Paul Daley
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (971+ words) A recent trip while walking the dog made me recheck my immense good fortune and my faith in the goodness of others First things first: I tripped and fell " I did not, as my family teases, have a fall or,…...