Browsing Category Climbing
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Adventures 0
Full Traverse: Climbing Out of the Grose Valley
What do you get when you combine a 12km walk, 1km bush-bash up a steep slope and a 270m multi-pitch climb up Bunny Bucket Buttress? The Full Traverse of ...
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Climbing 1
Intimidation at Fossil Cave, Thompson’s Pt, Nowra
What happens when you find yourself out of your depth and in thin air at the same time? My friend and climbing partner Garry Lomas confronts his limits at ...
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Books and Ideas 0
Book Review – No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
What do mountaineering and globalisation have in common? This rollicking read, by New York Times journalist, Graham Bowley, tells the story of Himalayan mountain K2’s deadliest day when ...
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Adventures 6
Wrenched into space: an induction to multi-pitch climbing (Part 1)
With a flick, I managed to free our abseil ropes from a wedge between a small ridge of rock spires and the cliff face. Tension released, the ropes, ...
