Three Alpine Climbing Blog Posts from January 2017
While many climbers have abandoned their blogs reports for social media, it seems many alpine and ice climbers are still at it. Below are three blog posts from the past month about alpine and ice climbing.
Colin Haley’s Patagonia 2016 – A Dud is about one of his recent trips to South America where everything didn’t go as planned. “Having spent so much time in Patagonia, I’m used to periods of extended bad weather, and periods of plentiful good weather windows. I know how valuable the good weather windows are, and thus how important it is to take advantage of them when they come.” Read here.
Nick Bullock’s A tempestuous look back to the future digs into winter climbing ethics and standards. “Winter climbing in Britain is very popular and the numbers of climbers on the crags are increasing. Scottish, Welsh and Lakeland crags are small, and the on-sight, ground-up ethic that has been followed, almost without question from the beginning, lifts the worldwide reputation of our small cliffs.” Read here.
Raphael Slawinski’s Why We Climb talks about two new routes from January 2016. “As I retreated into the hood of my belay jacket, I thought again about Messner. In his essay he offers that ‘… if anyone wants to come with me, we’ll go to the top together on the routes we can do without branding ourselves murderers.'” Read here.
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