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CARLO TRAVERSI is very much a part of the bouldering ‘nu skool’. One of the USA’s top boulderers at 23 years old, he is the epitome of a ‘powerful climber’. His style is aggressive & dynamic. The list of first ascents & repeats by his name speaks for itself; A successful ascent of the Daniel [...]
Inspiration on all levels
Here at RCUK we like you to see the best quality climbing videos available. Whether it be famous climbers, famous routes, excellent editing or an inspiring story, we choose the videos because we enjoy them and we hope that you will too. The video below is a short one from DPM, a climbing website/magazine based [...]
Century Crack Trailer
OK, so it’s not the most recent of news … and YES we have talked about this before. BUT, we challenge you to watch this trailer and tell us that you didn’t get goosebumps, that the strange feeling deep in the pit of your stomach when the training scenes play through didn’t really happen AND [...]
Islands: Traditional Tales of Lakeland Climbing
When we saw the following film at the Kendal Film Festival in November, we were blown away by the excellent stories unified & produced by Land & Sky Media. It’s the first film to feature at the festival from Land & Sky Media and it was received with a very warm welcome. It’s been a [...]
Video: Webb-Parsons Comes to UK
Our Fine Land lays claim to some of the finest climbing in the world, and is regarded by most as the birthplace of modern mountaineering as we know it. Over the hundred and fifty or so years of climbing history that we have accumulated, the UK has received visits from some of the greatest & [...]
COLD WARS – Video Profile
“The joy of climbing is a private thing between me and climbing…Our relationship is complicated” Andy Kirkpatrick The US magazine Climbing once described Andy Kirkpatrick as a climber with a “strange penchant for the long, the cold and the difficult”, with a reputation “for seeking out routes where the danger is real, and the return [...]
A Man On A Mission – Super 8
At 40 years old, being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes is not the best news for anyone to receive. Put yourself in the boots of a professional expedition mountaineer; spending days, weeks and maybe months at a time away from civilisation… receiving this news would surely signal the end of such an extreme career? Jerry [...]
Why you should always pay attention when belaying …
It’s happened to us all, we get distracted at the crag or the wall when we’re belaying & our concentration is no longer on the climber…but on the distraction. The majority of these instances end with us quickly switching our focus back to where it should be and no harm is done. Sometimes, we’re not [...]
It’s all just too easy …
… or so it would seem for the on-form Jordan Buys at present. Flashes of various E7′s & E8′s not to mention a ground-up attempt (resulting in a ground fall) on the grit test piece The Promise E9 7a are common-place for him at the moment. His tick-list is impressive to say the least. One [...]
KENDAL WALL – VIDEO
If you have been keeping up to date with the articles here at RCUK, you will have read the lengthy feature on the Kendal Wall re-launch on the 4th – 6th November. Dom Bush of Land & Sky Media was on-site all day, documenting the competition, master classes & activities that went on. Dom commented: [...]
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