#rockclimbing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rockclimbing, aggregated by home.social.
-
Preliminary report on the St Savvas (Kalymnos) anchor, which failed with lethal consequences on 27th March 2026
Suprise: it's not sulphide stress cracking mediated by sulphate reducing bacteria!
Petzl Gougon 10 mm from 2000-2005 should be treated as high risk until we have better data. It might be a bad batch. They might have been used in other crags.
https://cragchemistry.com/2026/06/08/kalymnos-catastrophic-anchor-failure/
Images are from the Rebolt Kalymnos Facebook post.
-
‘The most stressful TV experience on record’: Alex Honnold and the rise of potential death as live entertainment https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jan/26/alex-honnold-taipei-101-skyscraper-live-netflix-potential-death-entertainment #Television #Culture #TelevisionRadio #Netflix #ExtremeSports #Sport #Taiwan #AsiaPacific #RockClimbing
-
Time to sack off the rental shoes. 💪
La Sportiva Tarantula and Tarantula Boulder are comfy, forgiving first shoes for indoor routes and blocs, with men’s and women’s fits and sticky FriXion rubber.
Our whole Tarantula range is 10% off right now at Inglesport.
Shop here: https://www.inglesport.com/?s=la+sportiva+tarantula&post_type=product&dgwt_wcas=1 👍
#outdoors #rockclimbing #climbing #climbinggear #climbingshoes #bouldering #indoorclimbing #climbinggym
-
Peggyboard Will Have You Climbing the Walls Repeatedly - When you can’t climb actual rocks all the time, what do you do to train and keep s... - https://hackaday.com/2023/10/03/peggyboard-will-have-you-climbing-the-walls-repeatedly/ #rockclimbinghold #climbingwall #rockclimbing #raspberrypi #leds
-
I sent my first 5.10+ today! My left arm is feeling pretty bad and I need to rest it, but dang that was a sick climb. #toprope #belay #rockclimbing
-
Topping out this overhang was so much fun and felt rewarding. I'm resting my arms before climbing out the overhang.
