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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

VIDEO PART ONE: BD athlete Kyle Dempster makes first ascent of Mount Edgar's east face

Black Diamond athlete Kyle Dempster traveled to China's Sichuan Province in November 2010 with Bruce Normand and made two major first ascents: the central couloir on the west face of Mount Grosvenor and the east face of Mount Edgar (which is the face that claimed the lives of BD athletes Jonny Copp and Micah Dash, as well as videographer Wade Johnson, in May 2009). The first ascent of Edgar's east face has earned Dempster and Normand their second consecutive nomination for the Piolet d'Or (last year the duo and Jed Brown won the award for their ascent of Xuelian West).

The video below is Part One of Dempster's trip and documents the FA on Grosvenor. Part Two covers the first ascent on Edgar, and can be viewed here. Introspective and honest, Dempster speaks in-depth about the dangers encountered on Edgar and how accepting such risks in order to make the ascent left him heavily troubled, vowing to never again climb on such an active and dangerous mountain.

Recent Talk (1)

  • Karrar Haidri
    27 Apr 2011, 11:37AM

    Great achievement.

  • kate wilson
    10 Apr 2011, 4:32PM

    geez kyle - could you scale something a little more vertical??

  • Samuel Johnson
    15 Mar 2011, 10:33PM

    Fu*^king locker weather, man I am jealous of those bluebird skies. Nice work boys!

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