Archive for July, 2009
Friday, July 24th, 2009
Wind and rain were no deterrent for the 25 road cyclists who started out at one minute intervals from the Minsterley village hall aiming to complete the High Sports KILLER LOOP 09 on Sunday 19th July. The challenge, not a race is 50 miles, 5.000ft of ascent all within a target time of 4.30 ...
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
A THOUSAND SETTING SUNS E9 7a NESSCLIFFE Shropshire sandstone
The route name must surely refer to the three years of outstanding effort by Nick Dixon to finally top out on his latest Nesscliffe masterpiece and prized line. Once all the 'do able lines at Ness' had fallen to the Sand Master he's obviously focused on raising the ...
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Seeing as the very generous Mr Cathcart gave me the last week off work, I decide I had best make the most of it.
My original plan was to head out on a massive climbing binge, but as the weather looked uncertain and finding a spare belayer proved difficult I looked ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
This is the pending video from the last trip to Font. I know, I know... I'm sorry for the delay but is quite hard to keep up with the fans, I mean, while working at the same time... ; )
Enjoy!
To know who was the winner of the High Sports Golden Brush Award and to check out some ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Sunday 19th July 2009
The 2nd annual High Sports KILLER LOOP is a circular 50 mile, 5,000ft of ascent cycle ride through the stunningly beautiful Shropshire hills following tarmac lanes and roads. New course each year.
It’s not a race but an individual challenge. Not for the faint hearted.
Riders will be expected ...
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
A group of enthusiastic climbers started a quest in 2007 to develop even more new bouldering areas in one of the most exotic places on earth, Cuba. This uncharted island (in terms of climbing), is so far only known by a few of the more adventurous climbers and even then it's only the limestone multipitch sport ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Last month top American alpinists, Jonny Copp and Micah Dash,along with filmmaker Wade Johnson, were killed in an avalanche on Mount Edgar (6818 m) in southwestern China.
The pair were at the head of the fast and light alpine game, with numerous hard first ascents and repeats in the big mountains, ...
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