Tierra Boulder Battle 2013 - BACKSTAGE PASS

6 ladies are given some holds, a piece of plywood and a few hours. What would you expect ? A boring dispatch of crimp pulling ? A few fall ? Can't be more wrong.... First, the Tierra Boulder Battle is a show. Crowdpleasers problems of a high level of difficulty, perfect custom made holds on a fine structure. Second, these girls RULES. They are beautiful, they climb harder than you and they know how to have a good laugth in between tries. Last but not least, this video is not about the comp, it's about everything around. Jump backstage to see how such a fine event come to life. Thanks to Alex Puccio, Mathilda Söderlund, Mina Leslie-Wujastyk, Mélissa Le Nevé, Therese Johansen and Anja Hodann for beeing awesome during these few days. Thanks to Björn Pohl, all the Klättercentret crew, and all the events partner for pulling such a great show. Many thanks to Makeupe Institute of Stockholm for their amazing job : miststockholm.com/ Thanks for watching !

Patxi Usobiaga multi-pitch

Injuries from a nasty car wreck have forced him to retire from the training rigors required for competition climbing and high-end sport climbing.

Grit Ground Up

Three classic routes from my Peak Distritc's tour on march 2012: Braille Trail, Kaluza Klein and Master's Edge. All graded E7 6c and all climbed ground-up after watching friends trying the moves. I had a fall on the first two: quite safe on Braille Trail (slipped trying to reach the arete) and a bit more scary on Kaluza, but it's part of the fun of ground up climbing. Then I had the pleasure to flash Master's Edge on my last day on grit.