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I'm heading over to the Kandersteg Ice Festival in Switzerland next week, always a fun event. Black Diamond Europe is giving all the pr...

Albert Leichtfried is a good friend of the Berger family, and is helping to fund raise for them. There is information up on his site about ...

Harald Berger, three-time ice climbing world champion and father-to-be, died while ice bouldering yesterday in Austria. His partner, Kirsten...

Slings keep getting thinner and thinner, to the point where they wouldn't work even for the most optimistic G-String in Vegas. Kolin ove...

In my experience, injuries=monitor time. Here are some of the better, or at least more engaging, sites I've stumbled across: Zefrank . S...

The Arc'teryx Canmore ice festival is in full swing, good fun. Taught a clinic yesterday and climbed, elbow slightly better. Climbing su...

A few people have suggested I start a second career as a "professional questioner of commonly held climbing beliefs." That sounds ...

Jim Ewing is a bud of mine and the head rope guru over at Sterling. We've been emailing back and forth about single-rope impact forces v...

It's no secret to regular readers of this blog (and thanks to those who have sent in comments on elbows, ropes and falling!) that I real...

This discussion on falling distances with respect to clipping position is down there somewhere in the comments column, thought I'd post ...

Anchors: Cordelette, Sliding X, or? A brief history of anchor building (with lots left out...) When I started seriously climbing in the ear...

The ice season is in full swing here--it's been a bit of an odd November so far, very warm days (+8 Canadian here today, that's abou...

I've been working on a new slideshow for the Whyte Museum , "20 years of icicles." Originally I had planned to mainly do the r...

I've spent the last couple of Februarys in Norway, home of big ice and crazy potential. I really like the Norwegian vibe and the endless...

The posts on clipping and falling distances have generated a lot of email. Some graph paper will help in working the various clipping situat...

Finally back at home after the film festival and participating in the film maker's seminar. The festival went really well, good fun, and...

As walked into the film maker's seminar yesterday I found the way forward blocked by a crush of people along the path. You spend a lot o...

I really enjoy being involved with the Banff Film Festival every year, it's a great collection of talented and creative people in an en...

This elbow is really annoying me. I want to be training full-bore for mixed season, and yet washing my face is painful, and I can't lift...

One of the cool things about mountain sports is not just the climbing or whatever, but the people who are also into them. This was driven ho...