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In one and a half month you really get to experience a whole lot of things. The past period I spent in Morocco; climbing, bolting, playing and enyoing music, visiting my family and travelling all over the country. First off I headed south, over the Atlas mountains to the classic climbing ar

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                                                (Version Française à la fin..)

So...

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What's new ?

Smith Rock was a lengedary cliff for sport climbing in the late eigthies. What cimber hasn't dreamt of the line "Just do it" ? (5.14c) The First Ascent was made by JB Tribout in 1992....
"To bolt or not to be" is another really technical famous route where more

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Last week, I went with the french team to Cuenca (Spain), for a training course.

The goal of this training course was to try hard routes on sight. We had bad luck, because it rained 4 days in the week, so we climbed under the rain, in the wind and the cold... It was really sticky.

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Version du trip à la française.

A l'occasion de la sortie du sweetspot de Nike ACG sur notre trip en Chine, je vous fais une petite news.

Nike ACG a lancé un mode de communication original. En effet, le but est de réaliser des sweetspots aux quatres coins du globe sur les différents riders du team,

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Ueli Steck is in Nepal top open a route in the Khumbu valley, on the Kang Tengpoche summit. Here are some news from him :

Namche Bazar - Monday, April 14, 2008

Simon and I needed a short break. That’s why we decided to go back to Namche Bazar just for one day. Our

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Aymeric Clouet, Mathieu Maynadier, Julien Dusserre and Frederic Degoulet went to Nepal and did the first ascent of "the Gorillaz Peak" (6741m), in the Ganesh.5 mountain.

Aymeric explains us the story of the film :
"Once again, a gang of young french mountaineers, headed to Nepal

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Watch the movie of X-Tone contest 08, featuring the Petzl team :

Chris Sharma, Dani Andrada, Ruth Planells, Daila Ojeda, Tony Lamiche, Mickaël Fuselier, Julien Nadiras, Philippe Ribière and many others...

Interview by Barbara Mas-Bagà.
Original soundtrack by

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Check the pictures of the trip in Spain on my personal blog.

Click on the "Full Screen" button (right side of the player) in order to watch the photo gallery in high resolution.

Photos by Isa.

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Ueli Steck is in Nepal top open a route in the Khumbu valley, on the Kang Tengpoche summit. Here are some news from him :

Namche Bazar, March 30, 2008

Yesterday we arrived in Namche Bazar. Finally. The flight to Lukla was planned for today. But Simon and I didn’t feel

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YOOOO !! I did a bouldering comp this week-end !!

After severals months of skiing & mountaineering, it was good to restart climbing.
I had a good training with two days in Fontainebleau and three days in Annot.

With a big group of friends we headed to El Cogul, and after

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For all of you suffering from the late winter and snow that seems to have attacked at least big parts of europe, here comes some sunny greetings from Spain (from left: Patxi, Me, Josh, Irati, Daila, Chris).
Ok, it's not super warm exactly right now but it has been. Today we've be

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Québec ice trip makes always mad, but f***ing happy...

There is nothing better than feeling the cold when you get out from Montreal Airport and listening a strong (but sweet) accent, asking you if you want some beans with your poutine meal??...

Mathieu Péloquin - Our friend & Guide Québécquois...

To figure out how was the feeli

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The last past weeks were very busy and fantabulous ! Now I'm back to my sweet place, enjoying life, ski as the snow just felt and training on plastic... But the great feelings and memories of the last few weeks are still very omnipresent in my minds...

Can't stop thinking about the Outdoor


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Beth Rodden completed the first ascent of Meltdown (5.14c) in Yosemite, CA.

She worked on the route for 4 months through the stormy Sierra winter contending with feet of snow. The route is protects completely natural and she placed all of the gear on lead.

I worked harder on this

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