Nevis Faces is a 6 part series of short films we made for the Nevis Landscape Partnership, exploring various characters who work and live around the Nevis area. Dave 'Cubby' Cuthbertson is a mountaineer and landscape photographer. Watch his overnight stay on Tower Ridge to capture the sunrise over the North Face of Ben Nevis.
Nevis Faces is a 6 part series of short films that Claire and I made for the Nevis Landscape Partnership. It explores the characters of those who work and live around the Nevis area. Dr. Blair Fyffe is an accomplished climber and a scientist with a PHD in slab avalanche release. His keen interest in the mountains, snow, and avalanches has coined him the nickname Dr. Snow.
In episode #6 of my vlog I go through a handful of jumps in mental skills for climbing that I made in climbing. VS-E4 in one day for example! Most of them happened by accidental discovery. One of them happened by basically ignoring the advice of many standard sport psychology textbooks.
Your rock shoes are the most important piece of climbing equipment you must choose. It's really important that you do it right. Not only will it play an important role in whether you end up with good footwear or not, but it will also determine whether you will still have functional feet in decades to come, or have painful, arthritic feet.
Vlog #4: Subjecting your climbing partners to long belays might be okay on a sport climbing trip, but for everything else, it might be better to just go and work moves on your project on your own.
Why is it that some climbers have a badass home training setup and plenty of time to use it, yet they are not improving as fast as some who don't? Set it up and use it sub-optimally and your home wall can be just another source of plateaux in your climbing performance.
We all think wooden hangboards are a no brainer. They are nice to use, they save your skin. They allow you to do more training. More folks are thinking the same about wood holds for the actual climbing. They are not a new invention of course!
I'm starting a vlog. This is episode #1. This vlog will be about all things climbing - hard climbs, new climbs, training, science, deep dives and things I've learned and I think might help you too.