This week ‘The Outdoor Capital of the UK’ has announced details of this years Fort William Mountain Festival. Each year this festival has attracted more attention and participation. This year it looks like it is going to be no different.
Andy Kirkpatrick is probably the best known speaker at the Festival. He is going to be [...]
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Fort William Mountain Festival
Longest Waterfall Climb In Austria
It is a little late, but at the start of December Albert Leichtfried and his climbing partner Benedikt Purner made the first Ascent of the longest waterfall in Austria. BD, Albert’s main sponsors, have only just reported the ascent.
Moonwalk (WI 6 M7) is a 1000m route, 900m of which is a single continuous runnel of [...]
Ski mountaineering pro Nick DeVore signs with Marmot
Marmot have just taken on 24 year old Nick Devore as the most recent edition to marmots global race team. This marks a shift in marmots approach to ski touring and ski mountaineering. We wait we baited breath to see how this shake up effects our binding and ski equipment.
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New iso standard for ski touring
How will This new standard in ski touring equipment effect you? Well in short it should protect you from sub standard equipment, and ensure equipment is only designated as suitable for ski touring it meets the requirments, though it does only specifically effect how ski boots of size 15(foot lentgh) or above, and how they [...]
