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UKC WIDEBOyz interview
In early November 2021, after a summer of recce trips and one previous attempt that ended halfway, Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker climbed a horizontal roof crack over 2500 feet long (roughly the length of Half Dome in Yosemite). The line took the pair four days, with three nights on a portaledge. 'The Great Rift' — their proudest crack line to date — was on the underside of a six-lane concrete motorway bridge…
UKC crag notes:
THe dewerstone
You can hardly blame Nick White, for his beloved South Devon & Dartmoor Guide is brimful of demons and goblins, but its pages did shape my expectations of The Dewerstone. The Devil's Rock, Raven Buttress and route names like 'Leviathan', all gave it a certain foreboding. The crag name itself derives from a bit of typical Dartmoor folklore, Dewer being olde Devonshire for Devil - and the legend tells that He would use his hounds to drive folk to their doom off the top of the towering cliffs…
skyrunning: is it for you? outdoor fitness magazine
What the blue blazes is a SkyRace first of all? Well yes, let’s address that. What’s the difference between trail running, fell running, mountain running and sky running? Everyone will have their own definitions of each and none of them will be wrong, but Sky-running is the current tip of the pyramid in terms of extreme terrain. The idea being that the runner traverses airy mountain ridgelines ‘touching the sky’. There’s a Sky-Running world series of events, and these tend towards being arduous, with lots of elevation, technical exposed terrain, and a high calibre of international standard competitors….
The Alpinist is an intimate documentary of the visionary climber who follows the path of his own passion, despite the heaviest of possible consequences. Peter Mortimer with his co-Director Nick Rosen talk to Mark Bullock about making this unique film, and what Marc-André’s legacy will be.
INTERVIEW: THE ALPINIST
Mark Bullock interviews Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen of Sender Films / Reel Rock.