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Traditional climbing is where my roots lie but sport is an easy tick, fitting in easily around work and kids and a desire to perform rather than be scared. As the grades go up the amount of gear goes down making hard routes that can be onsighted hard to find. But I still needed the adventure, it feeling more distant with every soggy summer that passes. Pabay has been on the list for a while, "hard pumpy climbing with excellent gear on amazing rock" was the word.
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Writer, climber and guide Majka Burhardt has a penchant for combining adventure climbing and travel to exotic destinations. She does this with a heart-felt emphasis on gaining an greater understanding of the places she visits and the people inhabiting them. A few years ago,

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Behind every breakthrough in the progression of climbing, there's a true story of doubt and determination, perseverance in the face of failure.
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Difficile de résister à l'appel des grands murs du Yosemite et de ses voies mythiques dont les noms résonnent dans nos têtes…
Afin de se mettre dans le bain en douceur et de ne pas brutaliser un genou quasi tout neuf, nous avons choisi, dans un premier temps, de faire des voies "à la journée", avec des sacs d'un poids, disons, "raisonnable".
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The most significant thing after a new year on crutches is to be on time to focus on next step : being on adventure soon!
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From The Alpine Briefs - issue 2

Detroit auto executives, after making crappy gas-guzzlers that break down on the way to the crags, flew to Washington in private jets to beg for bailout money. A stampeding herd of mouthbreathers kicked off the holiday season of giving by trampling to death a Wal-Mart employee.
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Notre voyage touche à sa fin. J'avais envie de vivre une première expérience en big wall et c'est chose faite....
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This wall is magic - huge, impressive, and made to be climbed...
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With zero knowledge of crack climbing, aid climbing or big wall climbing, we are heading for a Yosemite experience. It is going to be fun, new, hard, painfull sometimes and emotionally intense.
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Yeeeeeeees it is ! DVD of Baffin island movie is on sale : 23 euros for 30 min of frozen joy polar bear encounter ski snow paraglide bigwall climb and basejump.

You can have a look on my interview on TVmountain.com, and book the DVD on line. And if you are wondering what the hell it is about, let's have a lo

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Here is the trailer of the new movie I have just finished.
It's called "The Children's Island"...

we've been 6 of us (Martial, Blutch, Mimouse, Jean-No, david and I) to Gibb's fjord and Sam Ford's fjord last spring with all the toys to

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Here is the trailer of the new movie I have just finished.
It's called "The Children's Island"...

we've been 6 of us (Martial, Blutch, Mimouse, Jean-No, david and I) to Gibb's fjord and Sam Ford's fjord last spring with all the toys to

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There is always something better than to stay looking up at the birds... 

 

 

 Seb Collomb-Gros on wingsuit at Grisetskolten (Photo Sam)

We had a good fresh air tr

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There is always something better than to stay looking up at the birds... 

Seb Collomb-Gros on wingsuit at Grisetskolten (Photo Sam)

We had a good fresh air trip in western Norway last week.

Géraldine, Seb and I, we made some fly over some modern style spots in Molde area guided

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