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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 remote landscape of Scotland. Traversing the land without deviance from the line, the route covers 78.55 km (44 miles) from the A9 to the A939 with a total ascent of 5706 metres.

March 11, 2022
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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 iconised the fish eyed, changing perspective of raw, left field action. Through the professional lens, Little Cottonwood steals the show with beautiful, striking granite lines that are inspiring enough to whet any boulderer’s appetite – mixing Magic Wood with America’s vast scale and wilderness, LCC has it all.

March 04, 2022
1 min read

Profewssional climber Magnus Midtbo tries ice climbing for the first time

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 beautiful real ice.

February 25, 2022
1 min read

EB Red | Climbing Shoe Review

Nailing the essentials, the EB Red weaves uncompromising performance into one of the most accessible and superbly comfortable climbing shoe packages I’ve ever experienced. In today’s market of soft, floppy slippers, the Red stands out with a rather traditional set of features, prioritising classic edging performance and precision over the volume jumping status quo. Being a bit of a small edge enthusiast, I immediately felt right at home in the Red with its stiff, full length sole and asymmetrical profile providing a solid foundation of technical abilities.

February 22, 2022
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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 matters worse for Will, the crucial crux hold broke 3 years ago and the climb has remained unrepeated since with the final sequence of moves now proving far more difficult.

February 18, 2022
1 min read

Climbing with Adam Ondra | Weekly Video

Collaborations or ‘collabs’ are a quintessential part of the content world, boosting profiles and combining skills. In this week’s video, Adam Ondra and Stefano Ghisolfi collaborate to take on Arco. With these two being at the pinnacle of the climbing game, the potential is endless in a playground like Arco which is teeming with untouched rock and open projects. One of the very best ways to improve as a climber is to climb with someone who is better than you. This should expose you to better techniques and climbing styles whilst giving you a huge motivational boost. If Stefano and Adam can apply this to their partnership then the potential is endless.

February 11, 2022
1 min read

Below Zero 8B+ | Weekly Video

In typical Scotsman style, this week’s video from Dave MacLeod is short but sweet. With fellow Scot, Will Bosi, having made the first ascent of Below Zero at the start of January (the stand start to Macleod’s boulder, Zero, 8B), it was only a matter of time before Mr Scotland himself turned up to dispatch the problem. Found on the Wobble Block at Rooftown, the climb takes in everything the rock has to offer, notably featuring a hideous undercut rollover crux that Dave dispatches with ease on his send attempt.

February 04, 2022
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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 ground-breaking ascent.

January 28, 2022
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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.

January 21, 2022
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Giuliano Cameroni climbing "Off the Wagon" (8C+/V16) | Weekly Video

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.

January 14, 2022
1 min read

Offwidth Climbing Video With Sierra Blair-Coyle

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.

January 07, 2022
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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.

December 17, 2021
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The Longest Line | Weekly Video

Confluence | Weekly Video

Ice Climbing With Magnus Midtbo | Weekly Video

EB Red | Climbing Shoe Review

Will Bosi climbs Voyager 8B/V13 | Weekly Video

Climbing with Adam Ondra | Weekly Video

Below Zero 8B+ | Weekly Video

The Big Bang: The Emma Twyford Story | Weekly Video

9a Project Climbed After 27 Years | Weekly Video

Giuliano Cameroni – Off the Wagon (8C+/V16) | Weekly Video

Sierra Blair-Coyle Battles with Offwidth Climbing | Weekly Video

Mountain of Storms | Weekly Video

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