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Es Pontàs (climb)
''Es Pontàs'' is a long limestone deep-water soloing (DWS) climbing route on the Es Pontàs sea-arch in Mallorca, Spain. After it was first free soloed in September 2006 by American climber Chris Sharma, it became graded at – the world's first-ever DWS route at that grade, and one of the earliest 9a+ graded rock climbs of any type in history. ''Es Pontàs'' was credited with promoting the emerging sport of DWS, and further enhancing Sharma's reputation and legacy as a pioneer in rock climbing. Sharma's first ascent was featured in the award-winning 2007 climbing film, ''King Lines''. History In 2001, after making the first free ascent of '' Realization/Biographie'', the world's first-ever consensus sport climbing route, Chris Sharma considered quitting climbing and went on Buddhist pilgrimages. A 2003 trip to Mallorca in Spain to meet Miquel Riera, the pioneer of deep-water soloing, led him to "fall in love with climbing all over again". Sharma decided to largely aban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Es Pontàs
Es Pontàs ("the big bridge" in the Catalan language) is a natural arch made from limestone in the southeastern part of the island of Mallorca in Spain. The arch is located on the coastline between the Cala Santanyí and Cala Llombards in the municipality of Santanyí, and is approximately in height. Es Pontàs is only accessible by boat or by swimming, and is a popular scenic location for tourists to Mallorca (particularly at sunrise and sunset) who view it from the 'Mirador Es Pontas'. Climbing area The arch is also a deep-water soloing (DWS) climbing area, and the first routes in the guidebook date from circa 2003 with ''Stop Look and Listen'' and ''Treasure Island'' . The area is most noted for Chris Sharma's DWS routes, and particularly ''Pontax'' in 2005, and '' Es Pontàs'' in 2006. ''Es Pontàs'' was the first-ever DWS route at the grade of , and at the time that Sharma made the first ascent, it was one of only a handful of rock climbing routes in the world at that gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crux (climbing)
Glossary of climbing terms relates to rock climbing (including aid climbing, lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing), mountaineering, and to ice climbing. ebook: The terms used can vary between different English-speaking countries; many of the phrases described here are particular to the United States and the United Kingdom. A B C D E F G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Grade Milestones In Rock Climbing
In rock-climbing, a first free ascent (FFA) is the first redpoint (climbing), redpoint, onsight or flash (climbing), flash of a pitch (ascent/descent), single-pitch, multi-pitch climbing, multi-pitch or bouldering, bouldering climbing route that did not involve using aid climbing, aid equipment to help progression or resting — the ascent must thus be performed in either a sport climbing, sport, a traditional climbing, traditional, or a free solo manner. First-free-ascents that set new grade milestones are important events in history of rock climbing, rock climbing history, and are listed below. While sport climbing has dominated overall Grade (climbing), grade milestones since the mid-1980s (i.e. are now the highest grades), milestones for modern traditional-climbing, free-solo-climbing, onsighted & flashed-ascents, are also listed. A climbing route's grade is provisional until enough climbers have repeated it to establish a "consensus". At the highest grades, this can take ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Rock Climbing
In the history of rock climbing, the three main sub-disciplines – bouldering, Pitch (climbing), single-pitch climbing, and big wall climbing, big wall (and multi-pitch climbing, multi-pitch) climbing – can trace their origins to late 19th-century Europe. Bouldering started in Fontainebleau rock climbing, Fontainebleau, and was advanced by Pierre Allain in the 1930s, and John Gill (climber), John Gill in the 1950s. Big wall climbing, mostly free climbing but with some sections of aid pitons, started in the Dolomites, and was spread across the Alps in the 1930s by climbers such as Emilio Comici and Riccardo Cassin, and in the 1950s by Walter Bonatti, before reaching Yosemite where it was led in the 1950s to 1970s by climbers such as Royal Robbins. Single-pitch climbing started pre-1900 in both the Lake District and in Saxon Switzerland climbing region, Saxony, and by the late-1970s had spread widely with climbers such as Ron Fawcett (Britain), Bernd Arnold (Germany), Patrick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mortimer (filmmaker)
Peter Mortimer (born January 28, 1974) is an Emmy-winning American filmmaker from Colorado. He is best known for being the creator of the Reel Rock Film Tour, as well as the director of feature documentaries '' The Alpinist'', '' The Dawn Wall'' and '' Valley Uprising''. He has produced and directed multiple films related to rock climbing, mountaineering, and outdoor adventure under the production group Sender Films. Early life Mortimer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Colorado College graduating with honors in geology. He later attended the University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ... School of Cinema and Television, receiving his MFA in film. Career His productions have won numerous film festival awards, two sports E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sender Films
Sender Films is an American film production company based in Boulder, Colorado. Productions include outdoor adventure films, television shows, and commercials. Company Sender Films integrates action with story-telling to create climbing/mountaineering and adventure sports documentary films. Sender Films goes inside the sport of hard-core climbing, focusing on climbers driven to obscure accomplishments. According to Outside Magazine, Sender Films has "focused on character-driven narratives..". Over the past three years, Sender Films has produced the six-part series ''First Ascent'' with National Geographic International. They have also been producing adventure film segments for US TV networks such as NBC, The Weather Channel, and Outside TV. Recent work * On March 9, 2018, '' The Dawn Wall'' premieres at South by Southwest in Austin, TX. * Teamed up with the Google Street View team throughout 2015 and 2016 to create the first vertical Street View up t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sporza
Sporza is a multimedia brand of Belgian public-service radio and television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ... network VRT specifically for coverage of sporting events. These broadcasts are organized by the Flemish government and mainly financed with tax money. Current rights Belgium International Logos File:SPORZA-306x225.jpg, Sporza logo used from 31 May 2004 until 2018 File:Sporza Logo.svg, Sporza logo icon from online with VRT External links * Sports divisions of TV channels Dutch-language radio stations in Belgium Radio stations established in 2004 2004 establishments in Belgium {{Europe-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desnivel
''Desnivel'' is Spain's first monthly independent climbing and mountaineering magazine, published since 1981. History and profile ''Desnivel'' was founded in 1981 by Spanish mountaineer and journalist Darío Rodríguez.www.up-climbing.com''Mr. Desnivel (2008)''. Retrieved 20 June 2015.www.irishmountaineeringclub.org''Magazines - Desnivel'' Retrieved 20 June 2015. Under the leadership of Rodríguez the magazine became very influential in Spanish climbing circles. Alpinist (2011)Serkhe Khollu(" .Isabel Suppe - ''Starry Night'' was a finalist for ''Premio Desnivel'', a notable mountain literature award in the international climbing community"). Retrieved 20 June 2015.www.climbingtechnology.com''Desnivel, the leading Spanish climbing and mountaineering magazine'' Retrieved 20 June 2015. The magazine is published monthly in Madrid and is focused on mountaineering (Pyrenees, Alps, expeditions) and climbing (Iberian Peninsula). Today the ''Editorial Desnivel'' is publishing mountaineer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outside (magazine)
''Outside'' is a magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue of the ''Outside'' magazine was published in September 1977. It is published by Outside Inc., a company that also owns various other ventures. History ''Outside'' founders were Jann Wenner (the first editor in chief), William Randolph Hearst III (its first managing editor), and Jack Ford (an assistant to founding publisher Donald Welsh and a son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, Ford assumed the p ...). Wenner sold ''Outside'' to Lawrence J. Burke two years later. Burke merged it into his magazine ''Mariah'' (founded in 1976) and after a period of using the name ''Mariah/Outside'' kept the ''Outside'' name for the merged magazine. In 2021, Burke sold ''Outside'' to Pocket Outdoor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Schubert
Jakob Schubert (born December 31, 1990) is an Austrian professional rock climber, specializing in competition climbing (lead and boulder), sport climbing, and bouldering. He is a four-time IFSC Climbing World Championships, World Champion (2012, 2018, 2021, 2023) and three-time IFSC Climbing World Cup, World Cup winner (2011, 2014, 2018) in lead climbing. He is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist in the Sport climbing at the Summer Olympics, combined event (2020 and 2024). As of 2023, Schubert had List of best IFSC results, won the most men's IFSC gold medals of any male competition climber in history. In addition to competition climbing, Schubert was the first climber in the world to have both Redpoint (climbing), redpointed a graded sport climbing route and climbed a graded bouldering problem. Climbing career Competition climbing Schubert started competition climbing in 2003 when he was twelve years old. In 2004, he participated in the European Youth Cup and World Youth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock & Ice
''Rock & Ice'' is a magazine published by Outside focusing on rock and ice climbing. The first issue came out in March 1984. The first publisher was Neal Kaptain. George Bracksieck worked for him, beginning in January 1984, and the two became equal partners in September of that year. The magazine was bought out within the first year by George Bracksieck, who remained publisher and editor until the end of December 1997. His company, Eldorado Publishing, sold Rock & Ice to North-South Publications, an investment group led by Dougald MacDonald. After a few years, it was sold to Big Stone. The magazine is published eight times a year. It was headquartered in Boulder, Colorado until 2002, when it moved to Carbondale, Colorado. Rock & Ice was purchased by Outside in 2021. The cover of the first issue featured Alex Lowe climbing the first ascent In mountaineering and climbing, a first ascent (abbreviated to FA in climbing guidebook, guide books), is the first successful documente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Hojer
Jan Hojer (born February 9, 1992) is a German professional Rock climbing, rock climber specializing in sport climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing. He is known for winning one IFSC Climbing World Cup, World Cup and two IFSC Climbing European Championships, European Championships in competition bouldering. In May 2010, he climbed ''Action Directe (climb), Action Directe'', one of the most difficult sport climbing routes in the world. From 2013 to 2015, he sent several boulder problems. Climbing career Competition climbing Hojer started participating in German Lead climbing youth competitions in 2004, at the age of 10. From 2008 to 2010 he participated in the Lead Climbing World Cup. Since his performances in lead climbing were never outstanding, he quit competing in that discipline in 2011 and started competing in bouldering. Notable results started coming next year, when he ranked fifth in the Climbing World Championships. He won the seasonal title of the Bouldering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
