Comments for Climbing Extreme http://www.climbingextreme.com Just for ice climbing. Tue, 11 May 2010 22:15:29 +0300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Weak spots of quality gear by Climbing Extreme | Helium quickdraws – what’s different? http://www.climbingextreme.com/2010/05/weak-spots-of-quality-gear/494/comment-page-1#comment-85 Climbing Extreme | Helium quickdraws – what’s different? Tue, 11 May 2010 22:15:29 +0000 http://www.climbingextreme.com/?p=494#comment-85 [...] Weak spots of quality gear [...] [...] Weak spots of quality gear [...]

]]> Comment on Almost a serious accident by juho http://www.climbingextreme.com/2009/01/almost-a-serious-accident/74/comment-page-1#comment-10 juho Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:18:49 +0000 http://www.climbingextreme.com/?p=74#comment-10 Thanks for the inspiration. :-) If you would like to provide some additional insights and perhaps links to usefull resources they are more than wellcome. Thanks for the inspiration. :-) If you would like to provide some additional insights and perhaps links to usefull resources they are more than wellcome.

]]> Comment on Almost a serious accident by Toby http://www.climbingextreme.com/2009/01/almost-a-serious-accident/74/comment-page-1#comment-9 Toby Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:01:30 +0000 http://www.climbingextreme.com/?p=74#comment-9 It's a good idea - I alpine climbed in Lyngen with a bunch of Finnish friends and although most of them could climb vertical ice, most of them hadn't had to teeter about on big steep snow slopes before and I really didn't want to be tied to them as a result! One friend Heidi thought that climbing through a cornice was the scariest thing she had ever done - this was after I had had to lead up to it and cut it first! There is so little multipitch climbing in Finland, you get used to finishing a route and just chucking a sling around the nearest pine tree. Obviously building solid, equalised anchors with trad gear takes practice. Snow climbing is also something that needs practice. Two other Finnish friends went to Ben Nevis to climb. Both were excellent ice climbers so on their first route the leader shot up a grade V ice pitch no problems, and then fell off the snow slope above somehow. He ripped all his ice screws and was only held by a nut just a few metres from the lower belay. He spent the rest of his holiday in Fort William hospital having various broken bones sorted out! It’s a good idea – I alpine climbed in Lyngen with a bunch of Finnish friends and although most of them could climb vertical ice, most of them hadn’t had to teeter about on big steep snow slopes before and I really didn’t want to be tied to them as a result! One friend Heidi thought that climbing through a cornice was the scariest thing she had ever done – this was after I had had to lead up to it and cut it first!

There is so little multipitch climbing in Finland, you get used to finishing a route and just chucking a sling around the nearest pine tree. Obviously building solid, equalised anchors with trad gear takes practice.

Snow climbing is also something that needs practice. Two other Finnish friends went to Ben Nevis to climb. Both were excellent ice climbers so on their first route the leader shot up a grade V ice pitch no problems, and then fell off the snow slope above somehow. He ripped all his ice screws and was only held by a nut just a few metres from the lower belay. He spent the rest of his holiday in Fort William hospital having various broken bones sorted out!

]]> Comment on Almost a serious accident by juho http://www.climbingextreme.com/2009/01/almost-a-serious-accident/74/comment-page-1#comment-8 juho Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:42:33 +0000 http://www.climbingextreme.com/?p=74#comment-8 I got a good comment on this post on a newsgroup elswhere with couple of good links (thanks <a href="http://lightfromthenorth.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">TobyA</a>), which I though might be usefull also for the readers of this post. While climbing in Finland self arrest is not something you need to know, but elswhere it is. --> It should be practiced. Though we slid intentionally and because of speed it might have been difficult to self arrest anyways, I should have practiced it beforhand more. Won't make that mistake again. In case you would like to know more about it see: http://www.mountaineering-scotland.org.uk/leaflets/winter.html There's also a very good video about the topic here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LM3xLshmNnk Because of this, I'm going to take in to my to be done articles list an article about the differences in climbing in Finland and real mountain environment. I got a good comment on this post on a newsgroup elswhere with couple of good links (thanks TobyA), which I though might be usefull also for the readers of this post.

While climbing in Finland self arrest is not something you need to know, but elswhere it is. –> It should be practiced. Though we slid intentionally and because of speed it might have been difficult to self arrest anyways, I should have practiced it beforhand more. Won’t make that mistake again.

In case you would like to know more about it see: http://www.mountaineering-scotland.org.uk/leaflets/winter.html

There’s also a very good video about the topic here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LM3xLshmNnk

Because of this, I’m going to take in to my to be done articles list an article about the differences in climbing in Finland and real mountain environment.

]]> Comment on Almost a serious accident by juho http://www.climbingextreme.com/2009/01/almost-a-serious-accident/74/comment-page-1#comment-7 juho Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:42:40 +0000 http://www.climbingextreme.com/?p=74#comment-7 Great that you liked and thanks for asking. :-) You're wellcome to quote text of my posts, backlinking is appreciated. What comes to images, they are a bit trickier part. There are (or will be) quite a few images, to which I or some of the other authors (yes, there will be others), either can't or aren't willing to give distribution permissions further. There for in case of images you can't copy the image it self to your site to be part of your posts, but you can ofcourse use URL's pointing to my site, as long as the image itself stays and is delivered to end users from our server. Great that you liked and thanks for asking. :-)

You’re wellcome to quote text of my posts, backlinking is appreciated. What comes to images, they are a bit trickier part. There are (or will be) quite a few images, to which I or some of the other authors (yes, there will be others), either can’t or aren’t willing to give distribution permissions further. There for in case of images you can’t copy the image it self to your site to be part of your posts, but you can ofcourse use URL’s pointing to my site, as long as the image itself stays and is delivered to end users from our server.

]]> Comment on Almost a serious accident by Reader http://www.climbingextreme.com/2009/01/almost-a-serious-accident/74/comment-page-1#comment-6 Reader Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:12:34 +0000 http://www.climbingextreme.com/?p=74#comment-6 Great! Thank you very much! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog? Of course, I will add backlink? Sincerely, Timur Alhimenkov Great! Thank you very much!
I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
Of course, I will add backlink?

Sincerely, Timur Alhimenkov

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