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DAVE Trailer

Deadpoint Mag - May 17, 2012 - 10:05am
Description:  In the BBC own words - bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18074424 'A new short film about Lochaber-based climber Dave MacLeod is being produced with an aim of showing it at mountain festivals around the world.

Niagara Glen Bouldering

Deadpoint Mag - May 17, 2012 - 9:41am
Description:  Some of our favorite problems at the glen, really fun area! The footholds are ridiculously polished though... Foot Fetish V3 Foot Job V4 (SDS to Foot Fetish) Super Sharp Shooter V6 Mamma Mia V4 Floryshe V8 (More like a 6/7, SDS "Floryhe" is closer to an 8 and much more fun) Horseshack's Reprise V3 Novacaine V5

Joe's Valley Part 1

Deadpoint Mag - May 16, 2012 - 10:20pm

Petzl RocTrip China 2011

Deadpoint Mag - May 16, 2012 - 3:36pm
Description:  Last fall, from October 26-30, 2011, more than 600 climbers gathered with our team for Petzl RocTrip China. All participants discovered and enjoyed more than 250 brand new pitches on unbelievable limestone especially prepared for the event. Among the highlights of the film, watch Dani Andrada's first ascent of the extremely difficult 7-pitch Corazon de Ensueno (8c/5.14b), a route he put up in 2010 over the course of two trips to the area to prepare for the RocTrip.

Heather Robinson Sends Mon Pote Assis (5.14a)

Deadpoint Mag - May 16, 2012 - 11:41am
Teaser:  Heather Robinson joined the 5.14 club yesterday with an ascent of Mon Pote Assis at Mt. Potosi, Nevada.

 

Mon Pote Assis (5.14a)

Deadpoint Mag - May 16, 2012 - 11:22am
Description:  Steve Lapen sending Mon Pote Assis (14a)

New ice routes in Norway with Rab athlete Aaron Mulkey

Deadpoint Mag - May 16, 2012 - 11:14am
Description:  A team of three Americans fly thousands of miles in search of massive unclimbed icefalls in Norway. Rab sponsored climber Aaron Mulkey teams up with friends Kevin Craig and Stephen Berwanger in an attempt to free a major, 1,500ft new line on the mountains above Hemsedal. But even if they can unlock the technical challenges of the Veslehorn mountain, will the weather play ball?

Wild Country Crack School - Episode 3 - Fist Cracks - By Tom Randall And Pete Whittaker

Deadpoint Mag - May 16, 2012 - 10:16am
Description:  Wild Country ‘Crack School’ is a series of six short videos designed to utilise the skills and knowledge of Wild Country climbers Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker to give an introduction to basics of crack climbing. Over six episodes the guys cover all widths of crack: Fingers, Hands, Fists and Offwidths as well as looking at the skills of gear placement and taping up. This video is all about fist jamming.

Enzo Shreds The Red

Deadpoint Mag - May 16, 2012 - 10:05am
Description:  Enzo Oddo and friends spent a month this spring on the steep, pumpy climbs in Kentucky's Red River Gorge. A few of the harder climbs sure got Enzo fired up, which helped fuel his redpoint of Pure Imagination, 5.14d. They soaked up the local culture and had some teenage fun - Southern Style. *Routes: Pure Imagination (5.14d), Lucifer (5.14c), Southern Smoke (5.14c), The Golden Ticket (5.14c/d), Forty Two Karats (5.14c)

Devil's Lake FA's (probably) part 2

Deadpoint Mag - May 15, 2012 - 9:52pm
Description:  Minimally edited footage of the fa's of Storm Troopers right (v9), Rail Gun Left (v8), Purple Dragon (V10), and the second ascent of Battleship (v10). Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin has a ton of bullet proof rock. And it is purple. Climbers: Peter Bonamichi and Ian Cotter-Brown

River of Acheron

Deadpoint Mag - May 15, 2012 - 9:36pm
Description:  Flagstaff AZ-Hinterlands FA at Choss Roof

Energy Boulder, Yosemite

Deadpoint Mag - May 15, 2012 - 8:56pm
Description:  2 problems on the Energy Boulder at Camp 4 in Yosemite: Chapman Overhang v1 Torque Spanner v8

a new climb for rhode island

Deadpoint Mag - May 15, 2012 - 8:32pm
Description:  low down v10

05.11.12 Gunks

Deadpoint Mag - May 15, 2012 - 2:55pm
Description:  Just a fun day at the gunks, climbing as hard as pros just on easy problems haha.. ENJOY!

Lemon Sole 7C

Deadpoint Mag - May 15, 2012 - 2:04pm
Description:  Boulder problem in Portrane, Dublin, Ireland

MacLeod Repeats V15 in Magic Wood

Climbing - May 15, 2012 - 12:16pm
5/15/12 - Dave MacLeod—a prominent Scottish ice, mixed, and trad climber—made the second ascent of Daniel Wood’s Mystic Stylez (V15) on Sunday, May 13, in Magic Wood, Switzerland.

Dominion River Rock: Bouldering and Dyno Comp

Deadpoint Mag - May 15, 2012 - 11:38am
Teaser:  This Thursday, May 17, the Dominion River Rock festival kicks off in Richmond, Virginia.

 

This Thursday, May 17, the Dominion River Rock festival kicks off in Richmond, Virginia. New this year is the addition of a dyno comp with an overall prize purse of 1,700 dollars. The dyno comp will be held Sunday at 1:00 but the organizers are offering a semi-finals exhibition at 5:00 on Brown's Island. From the press release:

BD athlete Chris Schulte bouldering through the Colorado winter

Deadpoint Mag - May 15, 2012 - 9:36am
Description:  Black Diamond athlete Chris Schulte lives and breathes bouldering 24/7, 365. So it's no surprise that he makes the best of Colorado winters and gets out bouldering even in cold, snowy conditions. What is surprising, as you hear in this video, is that Schulte actually prefers it to be freezing cold.

On The Circuit • Official Trailer

Deadpoint Mag - May 15, 2012 - 9:30am
Description:  In the Spring of 2012, four of America's Best Boulderers converged in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado in search of something new. Follow along as Dave Graham, Paul Robinson, Carlo Traversi, and Daniel Woods, establish and repeat some of the world's most difficult boulder problems that surround the now infamous Bear Lake Road.

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