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Climbing Magazine Reviews
Climbing Magazine welcomes print, photo, and DVD material for our Reviews department, both online and in print. Please contact Justin Roth for more information.
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 Way of the Warrior
By Chris Weidner - I wish I could do one-armed pull-ups like the 16-year-olds at the gym. Then maybe – just maybe – I could send my damn project. On the other hand, physical strength is just one aspect of rock climbing. Mental strength is also crucial. Unfortunately, most of us have only a vague understanding of what this means. Arno Ilgner’s audiobook, The Rock Warrior’s Way: Mental Training for Climbers ($29.95, warriorsway.com), helps remedy that.  Underdeveloped
By Matt Samet - Allah be praised for the streamlined, simple climbing film — it's a welcome relief. Showcasing the principal Irish cragging areas of the Mourne Mountains, the seacliffs of the Burren and Fairhead, and the boulders of Glendalough, the spirited Underdeveloped (£17.99, underdevelopedireland.com ) is, in the words of the filmmakers, "...simply a story of a bunch of friends from Belfast who went climbing. ..."  Where the Wild Things Climb
By Kristin Bjornsen - If you want back-bumper belaying, noisy crowds, and dirt-free routes, the Adirondacks are not for you. This upper-New York State park makes you work for its treasure of slabs, splitters, and blocs, with half the climbing lying wild and isolated more than a half-hour from the road.  Clear Creek Canyon Rock Climbs
By Kristin Bjornsen - Just 20 minutes from Denver, Clear Creek Canyon serves up more than 400 routes, several of them testpieces authored by the likes of Peter Beal, Tommy Caldwell, Kurt Smith, and Daniel Woods. The stylish Clear Creek Canyon Rock Climbs ($28, sharpendbooks.com ) gives you the inside scoop on all of them.  The Ultimate Euro Tour Guide
By Kristin Bjornsen - Welcome to the Euro tour, with stops at Malta, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. Your guide will be the South Western Europe & Morocco Rock Climbing Atlas ($38.95, rockclimbingatlas.com )  Spray Review
Review by Justin Roth - The chillaxed vibes of Northern California's beaches and inland crags set the tone for Brian Solano's new film, Spray ($29.95; spraymovie.com). The movie opens with shots of beach bouldering and surfing in Humboldt County, an area that serves as a sort of base for the climbers (the film is broken up into geographic segments, and the climbers continually return to the mellow, sandy area).  Yoga for Climbers
Review by Matt Samet - I'm a fair-to-middling yoga bumbler, but have been to enough classes to do a passable Downward Dog and have come to appreciate this ancient practice as a low-impact healing and wellness tool nonpareil.  Rock Jocks, Wall Rats and Hang Dogs
Book review by Tim Pendleton - Have you ever wanted to sleep hanging hundreds of feet above the ground off of a sky hook? If this sounds like your bag you might want to pick up Rock Jocks, Wall Rats and Hang Dogs (1994) by John Long. If you don't know who John Long is you might want to find out.  Forever on a Mountain
In the new offering Forever on the Mountain, James Tabor exposes the controversy that delayed the rescue of the 1967 Wilcox Denali Expedition and cost seven men their lives. Tabor reconstructs the stranded mountaineers' last days from meager evidence of a camp found near the summit.  California Dreamin'
My limited time bouldering in California involved sweat-soaked approaches through unwieldy manzanita only to reach holdless slabs or too-sunny, splitter-cracked highballs. I would've preferred that rabid dogs eat my pancreas, truthfully, than motivate.  Sherman Exposed: Slightly Censored Climbing Stories
I can almost guarantee if you sit down to read the first two pages while drinking a beer (which is probably in good style), beer will come streaming out your nose. I know it did mine, that bartender was pissed. And two things will happen: you will learn who The Vermin is and why you should listen to what he has to say.  December 2007/January 2008 - Reviews
King Lines - a brilliant pairing of veteran filmmakers Josh Lowell and Peter Mortimer; Deep Impact - Deep-water soloing (DWS, aka psicobloc) sounds simple enough: find a cliff above water, and then climb it; Woman on the Rocks - Women climbers should thank Ruth Dyar Mendenhall (1912-1989) for paving the way, and now we can thank her for Woman on the Rocks: The Mountaineering Letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall; Spider Woman roc(k) lessons - 12 months of bouldering and buildering from an anonymous sexy model in a Spiderman mask; Rescue 911 - Christoper Van Tilburg's catchy, if not a tad cliched, Rescue Doctor; Limestone and the Sea (Malta Rock Climbing Guide) - No, you'd have to be a stone-cold foolio not to drool over the mostly trad and mixed (with a few sport crag) possibilities on the stonker limestone of this island chain south of Sicily. |
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