"It is very important for women to climb with other women."
- Zoe Bundros
Excited by a good forecast, Steve House drove north from Bend on Wednesday, May 23, for his sixth attempt on the Emperor (northwest) Face of Mt. Robson (12,989′), the Canadian Rockies’s tallest peak. Fortunately all of the more talented climbers he approached could not go, so I met him in Seattle on Wednesday evening, and we drove up to Valemount, British Columbia, the next morning…
Source: Alpinist Magazine.
Congratulations girl! Don’t forget to organize a party for celebrating 
DNA breakage during replication in Escherichia coli occurs at a frequency 20-100 times lower than previously thought, according to a report published this week in Nature Genetics, which describes a new technique to visualize strand breaks in vivo.“We can be pretty confident…the researchers are as close as you can get [to the real number of breaks],” Aidan Doherty, at the University of Sussex Center for Genome Damage and Stability, who was not involved in the study, told The Scientist…
It was a funny scene I must admit, even though it hurt a lot. I managed to shave some minutes from my regular time and finished almost 1 km away from the virtual partner.
Now I need some ice on my scratched knees…
I’m not the speed climber I was used to be a couple of years ago and I haven’t been focused on that kind of stuff lately. Fortunately for me, having good previous experience in the subject allowed me to perform relatively well for the first 600 meters. After that, my ability to go fast got notably decreased and I was quickly chased, insulted and jumped (as our old tradition dictates).
It was good to see how easy was for her to continue doing laps while I rested my pumped arms once on the ground. I’ll have to get back into that someday, I remember it was pure fun…
PS. Yes, I’m back in town.
It was a 16 km run with a really unusual (for Miami standards) refreshing weather. A great way to close a wonderful week of work with my good friends from the Y! office. I hope to be back here soon, we’ll see…
After several years’ hiatus, the north buttress of Mt. Hunter (14,570′) is back in condition. This iconic abutment in the Alaska Range houses half a dozen routes, yet only two ascents have been done on the buttress in the last six years due to bad weather and poor ice conditions (both were of the route Deprivation [Alaska Grade 6: ED4 5.7 A2++ AI6, ca. 6,000', Backes-Twight, 1994]). But none of the more difficult routes, to the left of Deprivation, have seen an ascent to the buttress top, or the summit, since 2001. In that season Moonflower Buttress (Alaska Grade 6: 5.8 A3 AI6, 6,100′, Stump-Aubrey [to last rock band], 1981; Bibler-Klewin [to summit], 1983) had two ascents to Hunter’s summit (seventh and eighth complete ascents) and another ascent that reached the Come Again exit. Wall of Shadows (Alaska Grade 6: 5.9 A4 AI6+, ca. 6,000′, Child-Kennedy, 1994) also saw its second complete ascent that year…
Source: Alpinist Magazine.
On April 29, burgeoning free-soloist Hansjorg Auer made a ropeless ascent of Via Attraverso il Pesce (The Fish Route: 7b+/5.12c, 37 pitches, 850m) on the south face of the Marmolada, Dolomites, Italy. The route, considered one of the country’s “extreme classics,” was first climbed with aid in 1981 by Jindrich Sustr and Igor Koller of Czechoslovakia. Auer’s recent ascent marks one of the most difficult, long free solos ever tackled…
Source: Alpinist Magazine.
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Yesterday afternoon, I went for a “short” run from Coral Gables to Miami Center. I logged a total of 25 km and “invented” a nice route in the way. Thanks to the GPS I avoided running more than I would have wanted… I would have been running without direction for the whole night otherwise 
I really enjoyed the run, I got to see the beautiful sunset all along the seashore in the downtown. The weather was extremely nice, there was a refreshing breeze all along the course.
I returned to the hotel just in time for doing some stretching, having a healing shower and a big dinner
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