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Entries for April 2009
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Video of Black Diamond skier Callum Pettit on ESPN.com
Check out this feature on Black Diamond skier Callum Pettit from ESPN Video:
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Albert Leichtfried dodges massive ice fall in Japan—AMAZING photo!
Black Diamond athletes Albert Leichtfried and Markus Bendler went to Japan's Hokkaido Island to bag some ice climbing first ascents. On a waterfall called Furope No Taki the duo narrowly missed being pummeled by several tons of falling ice. Talk...
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SIERRA SNAFUS: Alex Honnold Gives Peak Bagging a Shot—With Mixed Results
It was completely dark, the monstrous lakeside thicket I was stuck in obscured the weak light of a quarter moon. I’d been hiking for more than 20 hours straight, the last five of them in total darkness (I’d left my headlamp back in the van,...
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BORN TOO LATE: Are All the Great Alpine First Ascents Gone? By Simon Anthamatten
I get up, draw back the curtains and there she is: the Diva of the Alps, the Matterhorn. The sight of this mountain shouldn’t really fascinate me so much anymore. I grew up at the foot of this beautiful gneiss pyramid and have stood on its summit...
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Colin Haley solos Supercanaleta on Fitz Roy, Patagonian Argentine
Colin Haley had another successful season down in Patagonia in 2008/2009, this time with, among other ascents, a solo of Fitz Roy’s Supercanaleta (1600 m, TD+ 5.10, 90º). Haley managed the ascent (the second time the line had ever been soloed) in...
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Nalle Hukkataival makes the first repeat of Banshousha (8C), Ogawayama, Japan
Back in 2000 Tokio Muroi did the FA of 伴奏者 ( Bansousha ) at Ogawayama, Japan and gave it 5. dan, which translates to 8C or V15. It's a 6-meter slab and, until April 22 2009, no one had been able to repeat it. Along comes Black Diamond athlete Nalle...
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