Weekend Stoker: Bloodied Face Huey Battles Big Drip

February 15th, 2019 by Gripped Magazine | Posted in Ice, Profiles, Rockies, Video | No Comments »

Watch climber Jesse Huey sessions The Real Big Drip in the Ghost River, Alberta. Huey is currently in Patagonia with Will Stanhope. The Real Big Drip is a 200-metre mixed route in the Ghost […]

Watch Epic Dan Osman Tribute from Masters of Stone

February 13th, 2019 by Gripped Magazine | Posted in Profiles | No Comments »

Dan Osman appears in the Masters of Stone series free soloing Atlantis 5.11+ on The Sorcerer in The Needles and Airy Interlude 5.10b on The Witch and also in Needles. During one scene, he takes a 60-metre fall for fun in Yosemite, […]

Watch Some Quebec Deep Water Soloing

January 26th, 2019 by Gripped Magazine | Posted in News, Profiles, Rock | Comments Off on Watch Some Quebec Deep Water Soloing

The Jacques Cartier River is one of the most popular deep water soloing crags in Quebec. Watch as this new web series that is touring Eastern Canada visit the 10-metre cliffs and follows climbers […]

Saturday Sends: Exasperator 5.10 in Squamish

January 26th, 2019 by Gripped Magazine | Posted in Profiles, Routes, Video, West Coast | Comments Off on Saturday Sends: Exasperator 5.10 in Squamish

Crosby Johnston talks about one of his favourite Squamish routes, the popular Exasperator 5.10c. It climbs two pitches up a splitter crack at the base of the Grand Wall for 45 metres. It was […]

We’re Hiring! Looking for a Jr. Marketer who can crush a 5.11

January 24th, 2019 by Gripped Magazine | Posted in News | Comments Off on We’re Hiring! Looking for a Jr. Marketer who can crush a 5.11

Gripped Publishing is looking for a candidate to join our in house ad sales team.  The ideal candidate is energetic, outgoing, and athletic. Has worked in media sales, or other types of sales environment. Is […]

Watch Catherine Destivelle Free-Solo Old Man of Hoy

January 23rd, 2019 by Gripped Magazine | Posted in Profiles, Video | Comments Off on Watch Catherine Destivelle Free-Solo Old Man of Hoy

Catherine Destivelle was one of the first, bold soloists of the modern-era of climbing. Watch her free-solo Old Many of Hoy in Scotland in 1998, she was also four months pregnant, after rope-soloing the […]

Alex Honnold Free Solos Yosemite’s Heaven 5.13

January 20th, 2019 by Gripped Magazine | Posted in Profiles, Video | Comments Off on Alex Honnold Free Solos Yosemite’s Heaven 5.13

Alex Honnold solos Yosemite’s Heaven 5.12d/13a. The route was first climbed by Ron Kauk in the 90s and soloed in 2005 by Dean Potter. The climb starts 800 metres above the valley floor. Honnold […]

Top Canadian Winter Climber Raphael Slawinski

January 19th, 2019 by Gripped Magazine | Posted in Profiles, Video | Comments Off on Top Canadian Winter Climber Raphael Slawinski

Raphael Slawinski is a professor of physics at Mount Royal University in Calgary and a Piolet d’Or recipient. This short video is from 2014. He is one of Canada’s most prolific ice climbers and […]

Watch Sonnie Trotter on Family Man 5.14

January 12th, 2019 by Gripped Magazine | Posted in Profiles, Video | Comments Off on Watch Sonnie Trotter on Family Man 5.14

This is a short clip documenting Sonnie Trotter’s first ascent of Family Man 5.14 in Skaha back in 2014. As Trotter said, “For me, this climb was as much about getting outside with my […]

Weekend Stoker: Will Stanhope on Cobra Crack

January 11th, 2019 by Gripped Magazine | Posted in Profiles, Video | Comments Off on Weekend Stoker: Will Stanhope on Cobra Crack

Will Stanhope projecting Cobra Crack 5.14 in Squamish. Stanhope went on to make the fifth ascent of this classic route in 2009.