Gripped – August 2019

Canadians WILL STANHOPE, PAUL MCSORLEY, MARC-ANDRÉ LECLERC and American MATT VAN BIEN make the first ascent of Cerro Mariposa vi ...

BRETTE HARRINGTON, INES PAPERT and LUKA LINDIC made the first ascent of The Sound of Silence VI M8 WI5 in memory of Marc-André L ...

Hazel Findlay Hazel Findlay was introduced to climbing by her dad nearly 25 years ago and has become one of the boldest trad cli ...

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Findlay on Le Pirate on Aiguille d’Argentière ...

...British E9 trad and you have freed several routes on El Cap in Yosemite. Is there something you can share withthose who may f ...

Did that experience motivate you to get more into specific goal-setting? It’s funny, I coach people and goal-setting is part of ...

Hazel in CANADA 2010: Sent Squamish testpiece 69, a 5.13b/c trad route near Murrin Park 2011: Visited Blow Me Down wall in Newfo ...

stopping and saying “take” before they were actually climbing at their limit and really trying. Then I suffered an injury and ha ...

Have you learned to embrace being injured over the years? For the majority of my climbing life, I had some sort of injury. I hav ...

I t’s hard to believe that it was almost seven years ago that I wrote an area profile titled “The Okanagan’s Bouldering Boom” in ...

Right: Braden McCrea on Seven Hour Sethna V1 Pho to^ An dy^ Wh ite ...

granite and top it all off with a refreshing swim.” These statements still ring true and many of these areas are now highly deve ...

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with only a few cars, surrounded by trees, and seeing little evidence that boulders are anywhere nearby. Then, you walk for abou ...

climbers from around the world, year after year. In its seventh year, it’s grown into Canada’s largest outdoor bouldering festiv ...

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