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Ascending in his chosen sport: Lafayette's Connor Everton takes climbing gold, bronze medals in Chile
Concord :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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Like a real life spiderman, Connor Everton stretches his lanky 5-foot-10-inch, 147-pound frame up vertical surfaces and across boulder-filled terrains. He's not in hot pursuit of criminals, but nevertheless, he is blazing. At Concord's Diablo Rock
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Youth become rock warriors at Breck Rec
Boulder :: CO :: USA | 8 months ago
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Finn Pattenden, a member of Team Summit Climbing, competes in a American Boulding Series local competition at The Spot in Boulder on Sept. 29. A youth climbing night on Tuesday, Oct. 16 will expose any youth interested in recreational or competitive
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IHT Rendezvous: A Man on a Wire Above China's 'Grand Canyon'
Hong Kong :: China | 1 year ago
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The American adventurer Dean Potter highlining last weekend in Hubei Province in China. The best American rock climbers would already seem to have their hands full, from the Gunks and the granite crags in New Hampshire to the Hueco Tanks boulders in
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El Capitan record attempt likey has to wait
Fresno :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Due to inclement weather and scheduling conflicts, the duo likely will have to postpone any future attempts until next summer. Florine, who will be in Fresno on Saturday to emcee the Reel Rock Film Tour, spoke about speed climbing with The Bee's
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Professional tree huggers out on a limb in the name of social climbing
Melbourne :: Australia | 2 years ago
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Ian Munro May 30, 2011 Current Australian Champion Grant Cody from Melbourne during the Australian Tree Climbing Championships. Bulldogs and Hawks or Magpies and Eagles, but Victoria's Grant Cody lost his title as nat- ional tree-climbing champion
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Climbers go up Yosemite's Nose to reset record
Tōkyō :: Japan | over 2 years ago
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Michael Maloney / The Chronicle Speed climbers Hans Florine, of Lafayette, Calif., left, and Yuji Hirayama, of Japan exchange gear on the Nose route of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on July 2, 2008. Their time was 2 hours, 43 minutes and 33
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Climbing the walls keeps him grounded
Morrisville :: NC :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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When he was a toddler, Kai's mom said, the Fayetteville boy was always trying to scale baby gates, trees, basketball poles, the side of the house, whatever he could find. After a while, Connie Lightner realized that her son needed a way to channel
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Climber sets records in scaling Yosemite icons
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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Even the most hard-core climbers wonder how the 24-year-old Sacramento native can make it to the top without the protection of ropes and still manage to keep calm. But June 24, the news was not about Honnold's insane gearless solo climbs but rather
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Russians shine at home climbing World Cup
Lon :: Burkina Faso | almost 3 years ago
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NYC) (LON) (MOW) Russians shine at home climbing World Cup Published 21 June, 2010, 15:48 The climbing World Cup 2010 was held in Moscow this weekend, where RT's Konstantin Potapov caught the most eye-catching discipline - speed climbing.
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Fatal fall a slip away, climber talks of fear
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 3 years ago
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Hans Florine is the Bay Area's best-known rock climber, having repeatedly broken the world record for the fastest climb up the nose of Yosemite's El Capitan. The Lafayette motivational speaker and former All-America pole vaulter has drawn criticism
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