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Bouldering Bobat in Rocklands | Weekly Video
This week's video comes from the world's premier bouldering destination, Rocklands where it's the turn of Bouldering Bobat to take on the immense lines and towering faces of sandstone. Packed full of action, the near hour long video packs in tonnes of action from the whole Bobat team. A quick ascent of Shosholoza 8A+ for Jake is a particular highlight of the video with the line showing off some of the best movement Rocklands has to offer.
13 Tips To Improve Your Climbing | Weekly Video
This week's video comes from Swedish international climber, Emil Abrahamsson who has 13 tips for us to improve our climbing. Whilst this video has become a bit of a staple for climbing YouTubers, this particular offering from Emil is one of the most insightful we've seen with tips that teach both new and experienced climbers something new. Maybe one of these tips will be the key to you sending that weekend project - enjoy!
What Happens When a Pro Climber Signs Up For a Beginner Course? | Weekly Video
This week's video comes from Magnus Midtbo (or Bjorn) as he dons an incredibly suspect disguise to take part in a beginner's climbing course at a gym in the US. Masquerading as Bjorn the Icelandic reporter, Magnus works his way through the grades at what would seem like lightning pace for someone seemingly fresh to the sport.
Bouldering in the Peak in 1994 | Weekly Video
This week's video is a throwback to 1994 where we join Ben Moon (and a cameo appearance from Jerry Moffatt) on a tour of the Peak District in its bouldering pomp. The near hour long feature visits the classic destinations like Stanage and the Tor on a whistle-stop journey through some of the toughest boulders the Peak has to offer.
Dave MacLeod Climbs Mission Impossible E9 | Weekly Video
This week's video comes from the fantastic crags of North Wales where Dave MacLeod and co. are putting down some serious trad lines. The focus of the video is, of course, the epic line - Mission Impossible.
Underestimated | Weekly Video
This week's video is a stunner. Coming to us from the lesser travelled bouldering destinations of South Wales, we get a glimpse at the untapped and underestimated potential of this somewhat forgotten land. South Wales clearly has plenty to offer and with developers like Eliot Stephens and Leo Skinner opening up a wealth of fantastic new venues and lines, there's plenty on offer to make a trip for.
Breaking Beta on Silence | Weekly Video
This week's video comes from Europe's current hub for elite sport climbing action - Flatanger cave in Norway. Here, Stefano Ghisolfi, as well as Jakob Schubert and Adam Ondra himself, are working on projects old and new with Stefano's main focus being Ondra's famous 9c route, Silence.
ALPHANE | Weekly Video
This week's video is the much anticipated, feature length film from Mellow showcasing Shawn Rabatou's epic new line, Alphane. Becoming the first 9A/V17 in Switzerland and only the third in the world, Alphane is the latest and greatest example of Rabatou's talents, clearing defining him as one of the very best boulderers we've ever seen.
Train Less to Become a Stronger Climber | Weekly Video
This week's video comes from YouTube's resident climbing professional, Magnus Midtbo, as he shows us a very real, no frills training session from his home gym. Although Magnus has become famous for his bizarre training videos and freakish acts of strength, this video takes it back to basics with an intimate look at a regular training session.
Climbing Terms Explained | Weekly Video
This week's video comes from Hannah Morris who takes us through climbing's weird and wonderful compilation of confusing terms. Hannah's accessible video unlocks many of the key words, breaking them down and explaining them wonderfully with demonstrations and even a few fun facts.
Thermarest | Brand Profile
Originally named ‘Cascade Designs’, Thermarest began life in 1972 as a self inflating camping mattress company. Founded by Boeing engineers and avid mountaineers, John Burroughs, Jim Lea and Neil Anderson - Thermarest truly came to life when the latter two founders were let go in the now-legendary Boeing layoffs. With time on their hands, they dedicated themselves to the quest for a better night’s sleep under the stars. The idea for a self inflating mat? This came from Jim one day while gard...
Dave MacLeod Lattice Assessment | Weekly Video
This week's video comes from Lattice HQ where it's finally the turn of training and dietary guru, Dave MacLeod, to put himself to the test. If, like us, you love nerding out over training content, climbing metrics and professional climbing insight then you'll love this one.
Can Will Bosi Repeat Adam's 9a Route from 2007? | Weekly Video
This week’s video comes from one of our favourite Friday spots, Moravský Kras in the Czech Republic, local haunt of Adam Ondra and recent proving ground for British climber Will Bosi. Check out our weekly video to watch Bosi tackle an unrepeated Ondra first ascent.
Red Chili | Brand Profile
Founded in 1996 with the moto, ‘Only climbers know what climbers need’, Red Chili took the 90’s climbing shoe world by storm. Over 20 years later and Red Chili are still one of the big players in the climbing shoe market.
The Most Famous Boulder Problem in the World | Weekly Video
This week’s video comes from Switzerland’s iconic Val Bavona region where Emil Abrahamsson takes a deep dive into Off the Wagon, arguably the most famous boulder problem in the world. Since his breakaway from Eric Karlsson’s YouTube channel, Emil has gone on to compete on the world stage for his native Sweden and has taken his outdoor game to new levels, documenting the entire journey through his own channel. This latest video is a testament to how far he’s come with the Wagon boulder being r...
Climbskin Hand Cream | Hand Repair and Skin Care Review
A serious step up in climbing skincare, Climbskin’s Hand Cream comes packed full of superb, natural ingredients which combine to provide the handiest healing solution on the market.
Seb Bouin: MOVE | Weekly Video
This week’s video is a throwback to 2018 as we watch Seb Bouin projecting Move – an Adam Ondra test piece in Flatanger, Norway. With the news having broken this week that Seb Bouin has climbed his long-term Verdon Gorge project, DNA, we’re taking a look back at the route that originally defined Seb’s world class ability and marked his remarkable progression on the journey to climbing 9c. Eventually being his first at the 9b/+ grade (sadly not seen in the film), Seb clearly used this experienc...
Will Bosi's Czech Rampage | Weekly Video
What do you get if you mix Britain’s best sport climber and the dirty limestone caves that shaped the leading climber of our generation? You guessed it folks, someone has finally visited Adam Ondra’s home crags at Moravski Kras. Having been on a journey of climbing discovery that has seen him open new lines and repeat classics, Will Bosi has taken a break from the competition climbing scene to invest even more time in his outdoor projects. In this video he chats to Niall Grimes about his rece...
How Fuzzy is Too Fuzzy? How Soft is Too Soft? | Weekly Video
Ever wondered how much abuse a rope can take before it reaches its limit and breaks? Are you feeling your rope and noticing soft, fuzzy spots? Well fear not because Ben from Hard Is Easy is on hand to put those soft spots to the ultimate test. With the team over at Mammut's rope testing department, Ben takes a look at the testing process and the effects simple climbing falls have on a rope. Having brought along his battered, soft old rope, the Mammut team give it a scientific send off, measur...
The Longest Line | Weekly Video
This week’s video is a little bit different, coming to you from the incredible Cairngorm National Park, this special film follows Scottish adventurers Calum Maclean and Jenny Graham (who holds the world record for cycling around the world) as they attempt an end-to-end journey of Britain's longest linear walk without encountering a road. The route in question was first created in 2018 by the map makers at the Ordnance Survey and, of course, the line cuts across the rugged and spectacularly re...
Confluence | Weekly Video
This week’s video is an awesome bouldering film from Mellow, taped in the incredible Little Cottonwood Canyon, just outside Salt Lake City, Utah. Following Zach Galla, Sean Faulkner, and Toinon Beigne round the canyon, this week’s psych inducing video hit explores some of the area’s proudest lines whilst putting on record some of the trio’s inspiring first ascents. Courtesy of Sohi Studios, Confluence is a wonderful combination of crisp aesthetics and an homage to the 90’s skate videos that i...
Ice Climbing With Magnus Midtbo | Weekly Video
The King of climbing’s YouTube scene is back with his latest video, this time from Saas-Fee in Switzerland, the host resort for this year’s UIAA ice climbing world championships. Magnus is there to check out the ice climbing game and, having never climbed with axes and crampons before, is introduced to the basics, both on ice and the dry tooling competition wall. In the capable hands of UIAA’s Robert Adie, Magnus experiences his first ice on the training top rope before heading out to some be...
Will Bosi climbs Voyager 8B/V13 | Weekly Video
This week’s video comes straight from the fantastic Peak District where Five Ten athlete, Will Bosi checks out Voyager, a super classic boulder first ascented by Ben Moon back in 2005. Voyager has become an iconic boulder in the Peak with its striking aesthetic and unique style of cutting-edge, overhanging gritstone. Unlike many of its gritstone counterparts, Voyager’s difficulty comes from its tiny, razor sharp pebble pulling rather than tenuous smears or technical hold fondling. To make mat...
The Big Bang: The Emma Twyford Story | Weekly Video
This week’s video is special not only for its big grade and cutting edge climbing but for its sheer historical significance within the British climbing community. In September 2019, Emma Twyford became the first British woman to climb 9a with an epic tick of Big Bang, a Neil Carson route at Lower Pen Trywn. Having first been shown at the 2019 Kendal Film Festival where it won ‘Best Climbing Film’, this fantastic David Petts production is a diligent account of the years leading up to Emma’s gr...
9a Project Climbed After 27 Years | Weekly Video
Adam Ondra is back with another feature in our weekly video series. This week Adam visits the beautiful crag, ‘Beckov’, in Slovakia to check out an unclimbed project bolted by Tomáš Pilka in 1994. Having failed to climb the route when he first visited in June 2020, Adam returned to polish off 27 years of unfinished business with what became ‘Absolutorium’ 9a.
Giuliano Cameroni – Off the Wagon (8C+/V16) | Weekly Video
This week’s video hit comes straight from the beautiful Swiss valley of Val Bavona where we’re spoiled rotten with Swiss native, Giuliano Cameroni’s fourth ascent of Off the Wagon Low (8C+/V16). Off the Wagon’s original standing line is perhaps the most iconic boulder problem in the world, originally being discovered by Dave Graham with Nalle Hukkataival claiming the first ascent in 2012.
Sierra Blair-Coyle Battles with Offwidth Climbing | Weekly Video
Typically, painful, grim and dirty, offwidthing is one of the darker arts of the climbing world, especially for us Brits with the fair isles of Britain yielding little in the way of any decent offwidth climbing. So, if you’re like me and haven’t got a clue about offwidths then this video is a nice introduction to the kit, the techniques and, most importantly, the taping.
Mountain of Storms | Weekly Video
In 1968, five friends set out on a 5,000-mile road trip in a white Ford van bound for South America. They packed surfboards, skis, and climbing gear and documented the whole trip on a 16mm Bolex camera. The film is, of course, Mountain of Storms, the legendary documentary of a life changing trip which ended with an awesome first ascent on Cerro Fitz Roy – there’s nothing like a bit of Patagonian alpine action to whet our winter appetites.
14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible | Weekly Video
Another Friday and another weekly video but, this one is particularly special. In 2019, Nirmal Purja, or more commonly known as Nimsdai, embarked on his ‘Project Possible’ – an insane mission to summit all fourteen 8000 metre peaks in a record breaking 7 months. Having only entered the world of big mountain climbing in 2012, Nimsdai made his first 8000 metre ascent two years later, summitting Dhaulagiri in a return trip of just 15 days. From high altitude novice to Project Possible in 7 years...
Will Bosi talks Mutations, Brandenburg Gate and the future | Weekly Video
Will Bosi has been on another hard sport sending spree, this time at the mecca of British sport climbing – Raven Tor. Making the long-awaited second ascent of Steve McClure’s 1998 masterpiece, ‘Mutation’, on the 31st of October, Will clipped the chains on the long-standing open project, ‘Brandenburg Gate’, but a week later on the 7th of November. Bosi gave both routes a grade of 9a+, an upgrade for McClure’s Mutation which he originally graded 9a back in ’98. Brandenburg Gate was rumoured to...
Most insane Adam Ondra strength Challenge! | Weekly Video
This week’s video comes from one of the most famous and well-known climbing training spaces in the world – Adam Ondra’s old school spray wall at his Brno based gym, Kotelna Boulder Club.
Blue Ice | Brand Profile
Founded in 2008 by Giovanni Rossi, Blue Ice are passionate producers of the most streamlined mountaineering kit on the market. Based in Chamonix, at the heart of the beautiful Alps, Blue Ice are perfectly situated to develop and test their kit in its intended alpine environment. What started in a garage with friends has since developed into one of the market leading alpine equipment manufacturers with headquarters in both Les Houches (Chamonix region) and Salt Lake City.
They/Them | Weekly Video
In February 2021, Lor Sabourin sent their first 5.14 on trad, clipping the chains on ‘East Coast Fist Bump’ (5.14a) in an ascent that wasn’t just a first for them but a first for the entire climbing community becoming the first non-binary climber to achieve the grade. This week’s video is a recently released Patagonia film that follows Sabourin as they tackle one of their hardest challenges to date in the sandstone canyons of northern Arizona.
Tenaya | Brand Profile
Synonymous with Alex Megos, Tenaya are known for an incredible athlete line-up that speaks volumes about the quality of their climbing shoes. With Chris Sharma and Jimmy Webb joining the team in recent years, Tenaya look to be going from strength to strength, firmly establishing themselves as a market leader. This is thanks to Jose Gallego’s shoe designing prowess - Tenaya climbing shoes are some of the most technically engineered and performance orientated shoes on the market. Intuitive tech...
50 Years On - Rob Matheson | Weekly Video
This weeks video looks at renowned climber and local Lakes legend, Rob Matheson, who has recently been repeating some of his first ascents. The video shows him repeating 'Holocaust' (E4 6a) on Dow Crag, 50 years to the day since he pioneered the route.
Organic Climbing | Brand Profile
Organic Climbing was founded by committed boulderer and geologist, Josh Helke, in the summer of 2003. Having worked in the outdoor industry as a writer, photographer and hold maker, Josh witnessed the very first bouldering crash pad come to market in the US.
How are the holds on a 9c? | Video
The dust has settled, grades have been discussed and finally we have the low down on Stefano Ghisolfi’s second ascent of Bibliographie. It seems only fitting then, that this week’s video focusses on Ghisolfi’s iconic ascent, taking an in depth look at the route and its torturous limestone holds. In typical limestone fashion, the holds are characteristically small, sharp and pockety with the crux sections proving to be as beautiful as they are mind blowingly difficult.
MSR | Brand Profile
In 1969, Seattle engineer and lifelong mountaineer Larry Penberthy formed ‘Mountain Safety Research’ as a one-man mission devoted to improving the safety of climbing equipment.
Scarpa Gecko | Approach Shoe Review
Comfy, robust and the best underfoot experience I’ve ever had in an approach shoe – the Scarpa Gecko is a superb shoe, impeccably suited to Britain’s mountain conditions and rugged terrain.
Rope Soloing Sweden's Hardest Offwidth | Video
Wide Boy Pete Whittaker is back with another light-hearted video – this time fromSweden as he attempts one of his hardest pitches of rope soloing to date.
Babsi Zangerl & Jacopo Larcher Attempt the Eiger North Face in a Day | Video
Climbing’s ultimate power couple, Babsi Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher strive to climb the Eigerwand’s hardest route, Odyssee (8a+, 1,400 meters), inside a day...
20 Pro Tips EVERY Climber Should Know | Video
Ex comp climber and prolific climbing Youtuber Magnus Midtbø, offers 20 Top Tips to improve your climbing.
Lord of CHOSStown | Video
This week’s video is a feature length Mellow special from Colorado, USA. Here, we follow climbing vagabond, Hunter Damiani, and his motley...
Adam Ondra Visits La Sportiva | Video
La Sportiva athlete Adam Ondra meets product specialist, Pietro dal Prà, for the full La Sportiva shoe making experience and factory tour.
Jim Pope and Aidan Roberts in Wales | Video
Like many climbing staycationers, Aidan Roberts and Jim Pope head to North Wales on a quest to send some of the region’s proudest lines.
Beyond Integral (9b/+) with Seb Bouin | Video
Straight from the South of France, this week’s video comes from Pic Saint-Loup – the majestic local crag of sport climbing master, Seb Bouin.
Climbing the Nose - Jorg Verhoeven’s 4th Free Ascent | Video
Perhaps the most iconic route in the world, The Nose is nature’s masterpiece and Verhoeven’s diary style video truly captures its magic.
Grivel | Brand Profile
Founded in 1818, Grivel are the oldest manufacturers of alpine climbing hardware in existence today. They were the pioneers that developed the original concepts behind much of the alpine equipment we use today.