Tag: climbing

  • Documenting climbing feats

    Documenting climbing feats

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Documenting climbing feats is an interesting challenge because you deal with issues of accessibility, projects that can last for months or even years and in some cases you’re dealing with the prospect of the climber understanding the problem, and then achieving his goal. For two or three years I really explored…

  • The Dawn Wall film

    Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the reasons for which this film is so powerful is that it’s written in the way that Heinrich Harrer wrote about the Eiger. It’s documenting not just a single attempt but the entire process. In doing so we get to know the people well. It gives us some context…

  • Indoor Climbing and the Apple Watch

    Indoor Climbing and the Apple Watch

    Reading Time: 2 minutes After just three climbing activities the Apple watch screen broke, rendering its smart features unusable.  Indoor Climbing and the Apple Watch are a bad mix. They are a bad mix because the Apple watch has an unprotected glass screen. The screen is so exposed that last Thursday I shattered the screen…

  • Improved Belaying – perfecting our technique

    Improved Belaying – perfecting our technique

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Belaying is a core climbing skill. With good belaying a climber can climb as fast as he is comfortable to climb, as if without a rope and yet have his fall cushioned at be safe at all times. The belayer needs to be active. He needs to observe and be attentive.…

  • The Drapel Climbing wall near Aigle

    The Drapel Climbing wall near Aigle

    Reading Time: 2 minutes The Drapel Climbing Wall near Aigle is a nice place to climb. When I was there yesterday we were in the shade of the trees unless we were climbing. The temperature for this week is at around 25-27°c daily which is nice. These are almost summer temperatures, at last. The parking for…

  • Climbing in Bramois

    Climbing in Bramois

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Climbing in Bramois is a pleasant and practical experience. This is a climbing area with numerous walls and routes. There are single and multipitch routes ranging from 3-4 up to 7 and 8. The climbing area is within a gorge with nice rock on both side and a river running through the middle.…

  • Admiring the Tour D’Aï from the Via Ferrata de la Cascade

    Admiring the Tour D’Aï from the Via Ferrata de la Cascade

    Reading Time: 2 minutes The weather was clear so I was admiring the Tour D’Aï from the Via Ferrata de La Cascade. I was in Les Diablerets as I am one of the volunteers at the FIFAD film festival. I turned up three hours before I was needed and as I had all my climbing gear,…

  • Getting Up Getu – some impressive shots

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Getting up Getu is short documentary climbing video about Alex Honnold and Felipe Camargo climbing a beautiful roof climb. The most spectacular aspect of this video is the size of the arch that they are climbing. In two or three shots you see the size of the rock formations compared to…

  • “Superhuman” Climbers

    Reading Time: 2 minutes A few days ago the Rio Paralympics “We’re The Superhumans” video popped in to my newsfeed on Facebook and I eventually watched it. The moment that most impressed me is the olympic athlete climbing 2 minutes 20 in. He is dynamic in his climbing technique despite not having any hands. As…

  • Climbing Photography – for when other routes are too wet.

    Climbing Photography – for when other routes are too wet.

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I have been climbing outdoors for five to six years and during this time I have enjoyed both climbing photography and taking video. The two biggest challenges I face are how to keep myself in place and how to be confident that I will stay where I am. This requires trusting…