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My first experience of ground up climbing
It’s 7am. Everyone wakes up with own timing and own feeling around this time. I wake up by sounds of boiling water, that is the song for a starting day. We camp out in the middle of La Réunion island,...
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My First Route on the Island of La Réunion
June 4, 2013 9:00 am – Ride to Boulder, CO, USA bus station 9:30 am – Bus from Boulder to Denver International Airport 11:00 am – Arrive to airport and check in 12:30 pm – Depart Denver, CO to Newark,...
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La Chapelle: Our Challenge with a Multi-Pitch Route
We came to La Réunion with a fairly simple objective; to open a new multi-pitch route, ground-up, using as few bolts as possible. On first arriving at La Chapelle we knew we had a potential 7 days to...
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The First Ascent of Kunyang Chhish East (7400m), Southwest Face By Hansjörg Auer
On the morning of July 18 the winds calmed down and the weather cleared up. It seemed our last chance. At 6am, as the sun rose we set off. The following mixed part was hard, our toes and fingers were...
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Day One: The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival
It’s the first day of The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival and the competition has been blessed with superb conditions without a cloud in the sky and a pleasant autumn sun.Running for the second...
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Caroline Ciavaldini – Insights from Kalymnos
Credits: Matteo Mocellin / The North Face® Who’s climbing style amongst the athletes that are here do you admire the most? Male and Female Joanna Ernst from the comp. When she was 15 she was so fluent...
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Pakistan Winter Sports (part 1)
Expedition: Pakistan Winter Sports Athlete: Hervé Barmasse, alpine climber Date: 20 Jan / 2 Feb 2010 Photographer: Kristoffer Erickson Product Tested: Half Dome Jacket Beyond the opening of new ice...
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BRAZIL – PARADISE EXISTS! (Pou Brothers – March 3rd, 2011)
We are back from Brazil, and back from one of the most beautiful experiences that we have had deep water soloing. The South-American country, to which we had never been before, is simply brilliant:...
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Muy Caliente With James Pearson
After being away from the UK trad climbing scene for a couple of years, where he mainly sport climbed, James wanted to go back to his specialty and decided to attempt to flash for the first time an...
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The Hardest of The Alps
Rock Climbing: Hardest of The Alps Athletes in the Expedition: Eneko Pou- Rock Climber Iker Pou – Rock Climber Date: Summer 2010 Products Tested: The Verto Jacket The Verto Pack The Half Dome Jacket...
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THE FIRST FREE ASCENT OF HALLUCINOGEN WALL
Ten meters, still ten meters to be climbed free on the thirteenth pitch. In the darkness of Black Canyon all you need to do is to look at a photo to understand how it got its name. There is not much...
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The Towers of the Ennedi Desert
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View ArticleThe Reel Rock Tour – The Begining
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww9U-7_TO6I The Reel Rock Tour is known for state-of-the-art climbing and Boulder films with big international names. For several years, the tour has been very...
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The Reel Rock Tour – Frankfurt
On the 17th of June the Reel Rock Film Tour stopped at the climbing hall T-Hall in Frankfurt am Main. Over 160 visitors had the chance to follow the presentation of The North Face® athlete Hansjörg...
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The Reel Rock Tour – Berlin
On the 23rd of June the Reel Rock Film Tour stopped at the climbing hall magic mountain in Berlin. With over 200 people in attendance, The North Face® athlete, James Pearson from the UK, presented his...
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Inside bouldering – An interview with James Pearson
The perfect line The perfect line… it does not exist because perfection does not exist. You can get very close, but never 100% perfect. The (almost) perfect line would have to be something like this –...
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Bouldering in the Mediteranean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe0rN0_6Yjk The North Face® Athletes Hervé Barmasse, Iker and Eneko Pou explore bouldering on the Island of Maddalena in the Mediteranean. Everything seems to be...
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Brazil: The Pou Brothers climb the Corcovado and the Sugar Loaf Mountain
These are two of the most iconic spots in Brazil, well-known internationally, very spectacular, and with very interesting routes very few people knew that could be taken. A group of Brazilian climbers...
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The ascent of Joy division line on the Qualido big wall – by James Pearson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MRjxw3xjV0 Thursday 13 October, at 10:37 am The North Face® Athlete James Pearson successfully achieved the ascent of the Qualido big wall line called Joy Division, one...
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Iker Pou make the first Ascent of Nit de Bruixes” in Margalef, Spain
Iker Pou recently did the first ascent of the route “Nit de Bruixes” in Margalef, Spain. Nit de Bruixes is a 25 meter line bolted by Jordi Pou back in 2006 and due to its extreme difficulty was not...
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Multi-pitch ascent in Sardinia – by Caroline Ciavaldini
The North Face® Athlete James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini trained together for possible future projects in a multi-pitch environment in Sardinia: dealing with the ropes, the hauling, working...
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Hansjörg Auer & the Pou Brothers Set Off To Free-Climb in Baffin Island
Unexplored territory, rugged terrain and polar bears are awaiting climbing expedition team, Hansjörg Auer and Eneko & Iker Pou. The North Face/@Redbull join forces to support our magnificent trio...
View ArticleOn the Road to The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rHxOShhgq0 Enjoy this second episode as we count down the days to The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival. We explore this climbing paradise and its local culture with...
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Hirayama, Woods, Pearson and Civaldini open New Routes in Malaysia
The North Face® Athletes Yuji Hirayama, Daniel Woods, James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini just returned from the expedition to Mt. Kinabalu (4095m) on Borneo, Malaysia. The team opened over 20 new...
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Hansjörg Auer, Eneko and Iker Pou Make Opened a New 8b Route in the Arctic
The North Face Athletes Hansjörg Auer, Eneko and Iker Pou wrote a new page in the history of climbing by opening “The Door”, currently the hardest route on Baffin Island, graded 8b. The Expedition...
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The Reunion, back to my beginnings
The first time you touch rock for your baptism as a climber and then the first years of your climbing life are memories you will remember for your whole life, moments you will cherish. At the time you...
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The what’s, where’s, and why’s…
Now that Caroline has explained what we would like to achieve on the island, its my turn to explain why, and what exactly it all means. Ground up simply means beginning from the floor and climbing to...
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The Reunion – Surprises and wonders of a volcano
Two days in the trip. James and I have arrived in advance to check out our different options: Which canyon, what wall, in which circus, and how to approach? And what better way than asking the help of...
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Landscapes of the Island
On Monday Jacopo, Yuji and Sam arrived… the expedition will properly start! James and I have been hiking all around the island to find the best walls. Check out below few amazing shots from one of my...
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Let’s get started
So, here we are! We are in la Réunion since two days now, but a lot happened already. It is truly amazing to discover every day something more about the island, its culture and its population. Sincerly...
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Philippines Climbing Expedition – Caroline & James in the Quest to find...
Exploring always carries a little risk, that’s just the nature of the beast. Around 10 years ago, some of my friends were the first people ever to Deep Water Solo in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. There had...
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Caroline Civaldini – Meeting my hero (Yuji Hirayama) at 15
I grew up on a small Island that was part of France, even if it was in the southern hemisphere. Even there, climbing was a school sport, and even there, we received the climbing magazines : Rock &...
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Climbing Legends – James Pearson on Boone Speed
For US climbers, and a lot of us over the other side of the pond, Boone Speed and his climbing needs little introduction. His first ascent of Super Tweak in Logan Canyon raised American sport climbing...
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Climbing Legends – Simone Moro Speaks About Maurizio ‘Manolo’ Zanolla
You could say that Manolo is a climbing legend but I don’t think this is enough; he is much more than that. He is an icon in the sport climbing world. Through his climbing style and abilities during...
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Climbing Legends – Iker & Eneko Pou talks about Patxi Arocena
Patxi Arocena is a mythical climber and from Basque Country in Spain. Born in San Sebastian-Donosti in 1965, Patxi became one of the early pioneers of sport climbing in Spain and had huge influence on...
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Day 1 – A Snapshot of the Event
In the past few days, climbers have been streaming on to the island in preparation for the third edition of the Kalymnos Climbing Festival that kicked off today. An expected 2500 climbers of all ranges...
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7 things you didn’t know about Kalymnos (including facts about goat raiders,...
When Simone Moro and Manolo were one of the first ones to climb on the island in the late 90s, the locals thought they were looking for pirate treasure up in the mountains, as climbing was such a...
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Day 3 – The Day of the Legends
In a typically Kalymnian way, the climbers were blessed with splendid sunshine, a nice breeze and, of course, an incredible panorama. For the first time ever, 6 legendary climbers of the 80s and 90s...
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Day 4 – Deep Water Soloing
This year’s Kalymnos Climbing Festival introduced a new format to the event, Deep Water Soloing on the island. On Sunday morning, around 30 climbers, including the 6 legends and The North Face...
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The Kalymnos Climbing Festival: Legends in Lycra
From October 9-12, the Greek island paradise of Kalymnos played host to the 2014 The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival. Thousands were on hand to take part in the event, participating in climbing...
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#Evolve
A film about moving from competition climbing to exploring the world beyond #Evolve is the first autobiographical short film featuring Italian climber Jacopo Larcher. The short film follows Larcher...
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Madagascar – Ground-up experience
This summer became one full of first ascents for team climber Siebe Vanhee. After the successful Common-Ground expedition in the remote tundra of Siberia, Siebe joined forces with fellow climber Seán...
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El Niño – Jacopo Larcher
When you think about big wall climbing and huge granite walls, the first place that comes to mind is “Yosemite” National Park. It’s the place where everything began and it is the mecca for all those...
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