C.A.M.P. Rocklete Rob Pizem has established yet another high-altitude 5.13 at Mount Evans. With more projects sure to go down this year, Climbing Magazine calls the P Wall one of the hardest high-altitude walls in North America, “With two 5.13 routes and two possible 5.13 or harder projects, the P Wall may host the hardest collection of […]
Archives for July 2008
Hans Florine Digs the Nano 23
Rockin! The biners are darn light! Funny as much as I’m good at being open to doing new things and taking advice from others to go fast. I didn’t break the habit of picking up biners that others left behind.- On the record run of 2:43:33 I picked up 3 leaver biners. When I got […]
Coral Harness Wins Prestigious Alpinist Mountain Standards Award
“While not the lightest harness in the C.A.M.P. line, the new Coral (an upgrade of the old XLH 255 model) is remarkably light for a fully featured harness complete with belay loop, gear loops and adjustable padded leg loops. The improvements include a pre-threaded and double-backed buckle on the waist (C.A.M.P.’s Sicura buckle), rubberized gear […]
Florine and Huriyama Regain the Nose Speed Record
Hans Florine and Yuji Huriyama, the prolific speed climbing team that established the speed record on The Nose only to have it broken by the Huber brothers last fall, have regained their record with a time of 2hrs 43mins 33secs (2:43:33). Of course Florine was racking Nano 23s to significantly lighten the load (more to […]
