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Jun 29, 2009
Will Stanhope appears to be riding the sending train. Having recently dispatched the Smith Rock trad testpiece the East Face of Monkey Face 13d, Stanhope has now also bagged the fifth ascent of the difficult Squamish crack climb, Cobra Crack 14b. Continued...
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Jun 1, 2009
Thunder Bay has the largest Finnish community outside Finland. Rick Mercer visited Thunder Bay in February, 2009, eager to explore two of its enduring traditions– hearty food and the "sauna". Continued...
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Jun 1, 2009
On Feb 9, 2009, Italian Simone Moro and Denis Urubko of Kazakhstan became the first party to reach the summit of Makalu (8462 m) in winter. Continued...
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Jun 1, 2009
The experienced Quebec team of Nicolae Balan and Louis-Phillipe Ménard skied into Quebec’s famous big wall, Cap Trinite, in March. Continued...
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Jun 1, 2009
In 2001, Bernd Zangerl burst upon the bouldering scene with his repeat of Fred Nicole’s seminal Dreamtime V14, graded V15 at the time. What's he been doing since? Continued...
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Jun 1, 2009
Warming temps and the Easter long weekend did not stop a deep field of the region’s best from signing up to pull on plastic as the Tour made its way back to Coyote Rock Gym in Ottawa for the 2009 MEC Tour de Bloc Eastern Regionals. Continued...
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Jun 1, 2009
Each of us has a tick-list of climbs we study in photos, and descriptions in guidebooks to far-away places. We may live in North America, but the climbs we've done and those we aspire to are worldwide. Continued...