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All About Crack Climbing

All About Crack Climbing

Are you in awe of the lost art of crack climbing. Want to know how to go about it. Find out here...
  • Mac Brunckhorst
  • Tags: climbing
NEPAL'S LANTANG TREK

NEPAL'S LANTANG TREK

This was one of the most strenuous parts of the trek and had the most amazing sites: clouds rolling in at impossible speeds and snow capped peaks all around and ice on the ground. Temperature changes up here are incredibly fast.
SKI WAXING Q&A

SKI WAXING Q&A

The non pattern sections should still be glide waxed for optimal performance. Even the pattern should occasionally be given a going over with a paste glide wax to prevent snow balling up underfoot. This is because a solid wax melted into a pattern will just fill it up, negating any traction completely.
BLUE LAKE ICE CLIMBING

BLUE LAKE ICE CLIMBING

This is a wonderful glacial remnant; the terminal moraine wall of a long gone glacier creates the barrier that allowed the lake to form. Although blue in summer, wintertime saw something more akin to a moonscape. The lake was like a white flat crater, surrounded by black cliffs encrusted with snow and ice.