Have you experienced sweaty palms watching someone climbing? Felt anxiety or even incomprehension while seeing another doing something? I do. And that’s a good thing, it means we probably are not capable of doing what that person does. Fear is our first mechanism of security, if we feel afraid about something is because our conscience…
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24h of elevation in ski
It is 4 kind of activities we can do in the mountains; training, social, activities and tests. Yesterday was one of the last. If an activity is when you include different variables a test is when you isolate one of them to explore-it and push-it at your best. Here the variable was elevation and endurance.…
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The History Of Going Fast In The Mountains
Going fast to the mountains is not a contemporary activity. If we think that the innovations or tendencies of the lightweight practices in the mountains are recent we are very erroneous, because since the begining of climbing mountains or walking in the valleys, there was someone who wanted it do it quickly. For some time…
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Some call it trail running, others mountain running, even running in the mountains or skyrunning, or fellrunning. Whatever you call the action of running in a outdoor space in a natural surface it’s not a single discipline but a complete and complexe sport. For simplification of the matter, from now on, in this article I…
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Training, Activities, Test and Social Activities
We all love to go out to the mountains, and all for different reasons and goals; to get fit, to find peace, to exercise, to win a race, to climb a summit, to spend time with friends, to have unspected adventures or achieve a technical route. So what do we do when we go out…
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Ueli Steck’s Training
.Ueli Steck was one of the most polyvalent alpinists ever. Steck is a true all-arounder and has put up M11 mixed routes, free soloed 5.13/8a and WI6, and sport climbed 5.14/8c, done first ascents in 8000m peaks, speed solo ED routes and he has also participated in Ultra Trails. Among his achievements he has open…
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Kilian Jornet’s Training
Training it has been and it is my main occupation. I love to workout and to be pushing my body and discovering his limits, to be able to race or do projects in the mountains on my best possible level. I started training “seriously” when I was 13 years old. Before that, I had been…
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Alpinerunning Playbook
Life is a game of renounces. I renounce clothes,I renounce technology,I renounce the safety rope,I renounce rules and inertia…To be naked. Naked to reborn,without mindets,without playbooks I Renounce life? Never.I renounce death? Not either. I go fast, not to be first, not to win nor compete but because I can, because I like-it and because…
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Acclimatization for Kilian’s Everest 2017
I want to share how I approached my Cho Oyu and Everest preparations and acclimatization programs during my expedition in 2017. Most of what I did was what many alpinists have been doing for years, and I have been trying and adjusting the last 5 years in Himalaya. We placed a strong emphasis on traveling…
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Under Armor dry tooling shoe?
Blogdescalada.com publish in his website http://blogdescalada.com/designer-realiza-projeto-de-bota-de-escalada-em-gelo-para-a-under-armor/ the design from Cory Czarnik of this futuristic dry tooling shoe:
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