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Yosemite - A lesson on Granite
"AGHHHHHHHH!!!! What is happening? I can't hold on!? It's IMPOSSIBLE! How on earth do you do this!?" This was my first experience of Yosemite cracks... The second experience was much the same. And the third. And so forth... I've spent the last 10 years of my life dedicated to getting better at climbing. In the beginning it was on […] -
“Bellavista” - Where it all started…
We travelled back to the Dolomites after a break in the bad weather would allow us to have a bit more time working the crux pitch. We had only had 2 days on the route so far and it had already seemed very possible to free climb, however the prospect of doing the whole route […] -
“Punks in the Gym” - The Australian Story
“Punks in the Gym” is the iconic Australian rock climb... It was a bolted by a local Australian climber and freed by the legendary Wolfgang Gullich in the mid 80’s becaming the world’s first climb graded f8b+/32 which at the time made it the hardest rock climb in the world! I first heard about it from […]