Showing posts with label mountaineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mountaineering. Show all posts
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Spencer West Summits Mount Kilimanjaro without Legs
Climbing on his hands for about 80% of the way up the worlds highest freestanding mountain and earning $500,000 for charity, Spencer West achieved the impossible. - Listen to a video of his summit - - Read more at his blog -
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Alan Arnette on his 7 Summits for Alzheimer's
A very inspirational and heartwarming video from Alan Arnette for his 7 Summits Climb for Alzheimer's Research.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Petzl New Lynx Crampons
Petzl just introduced new crampons made for mixed snow and ice or even dry tooling. It also binds to boots with or without toe welts. Check it out!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Kilimanjaro Climbing Gear
Alan Arnette discusses some of the gear he chose to use on his attempt of summiting Mount Kilimanjaro. This will be his 6 climb of his Seven Summit bid for Alzheimer cure research. Please visit Alan's climbing website and donate to his cause at http://www.climb4ad.com/.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Long Ways by the late Jonny Copp
A great inspirational alpine expedition video by the late Jonny Copp and Micah Dash.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Amazing Personal Everest Footage
The following video was taken by Brian Dickinson (Sponsor7Summits) who is attempting all 7 Summits. On his recent solo summit of Everest he took some great personal video which he was nice enough to share. You can read more about his amazing climb here.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Ueli Steck: Speed Training in the Khumbu
Watch this first video from Mountain Hardwear as speed mountaineer, Ueli Steck, builds tolerance and speed in the high elevation of the Himalayas.
Himalaya Speed PART 1: Khumbu Training from Mountain Hardwear on Vimeo.
A Trailer for the Documentary: "Cold"
Watch as Simone Moro, Denis Urubko and American Cory Richards tackle an expedition up a 8,000 meter peak in Pakistan in the dead of winter.
COLD - TRAILER from Anson Fogel on Vimeo.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Mountaineering Boots with Ed Viesturs & Peter Whittaker
This is a great little discussion with two renowned mountaineers,Ed Viesturs & Peter Whittaker. Watch as they breakdown the differences between plastic and leather mountaineering boots as well as comment on the new double boots on the market.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Ueli Steck Solos the Eiger is Record Time!
Watch as Ueli Steck speed climbs the Eiger in 2 hours and 47 minutes.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Mount Bradley, Alaska - First Ascent
Black Diamond athlete and AMGA guide Mark Allen joins Graham Zimmerman on a first ascent of an alpine big wall on Mount Bradley Alaska. Further notes and photos of the trip can be found here.
Mark Allen and Graham Zimmerman make first ascent of 4600-foot alpine big wall in Alaska from Black Diamond Equipment on Vimeo.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Soldiers to the Summit - Trailer
Soldiers to the Summit is a new documentary about a group of veterans who overcome physical and emotional challenges on their way to the summit of Lobuche (20,075 ft).
Soldiers to the Summit Trailer from Serac Adventure Films on Vimeo.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Interview with Climber, Author and Speaker Jim Davidson
This is a very cool web-video interview between Josh Turner of Campinggeartv.com and mountaineer/writer/speaker Jim Davidson about Jim's narrow escape on Mount Ranier in 1992. Jim Davidson's story is also being told on Animal Planet's series I Shouldn't Be Alive.
Jim is a friendly outdoors professional who shares many of adventures and advice on Twitter and is even a member of CANT's Facebook group. This is a pretty intense and honest story that shouldn't be missed by anyone. Thanks for sharing Jim and we'll be looking for your episode on Animal Planet!
Jim is a friendly outdoors professional who shares many of adventures and advice on Twitter and is even a member of CANT's Facebook group. This is a pretty intense and honest story that shouldn't be missed by anyone. Thanks for sharing Jim and we'll be looking for your episode on Animal Planet!
Friday, January 7, 2011
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Started in 2006, we were a small group of friends who got together to camp and to tackle small adventures. Now, branching out to both the experienced and the novice, we are a large group out to bring down big mountains, rivers, deserts, big walls, swamps, and whatever challenges the outdoors may have in store.