Every meal box in this picture costs exactly $1.26.
Rockclimbing Guidebooks – Pt.2 Uri Anglada & Mexico
One of the cool things about traveling around the planet and climbing, is getting to meet people that are so psyched about climbing at their home crags that they commit to the all consuming and dubiously rewarding task of compiling a guidebook.
We, at the Traveling Climber, have decided to salute the guidebook writer in a series of interviews with several authors that we have had the pleasure of meeting in our travels. Part 2 …
Rockclimbing Guidebooks – Pt.1 Aris Theodoropoulos & Kalymnos
One of the cool things about traveling around the planet and climbing, is getting to meet people that are so psyched about climbing at their home crags that they commit to the all consuming and dubiously rewarding task of compiling a guidebook.
We, at the Traveling Climber, have decided to salute the guidebook writer in a series of interviews with several authors that we have had the pleasure of meeting in our travels.
It’s not all about the climbing – Part 1 … Kalymnos
We have covered a lot in the last year about rock climbing, but that is only one small piece of the story of the places we as climbers and travelers visit.
So we thought we would trawl through the photo archives and show you a different side to a location, that with a quick climbing trip you might not have spotted yourself.
Our first place is of course Kalymnos. How could it not be, as we have spent so much time here in the last few years … (clocking up almost a year and a half!) … and it still surprises us, we are still uncovering it’s many secrets. Continue reading
Hanging Around (on portable hangboards!)
After our first big trip (which lasted 16 months) we came home to the realisation that a long time climbing on the road (mainly tufa limestone) and not hitting up the climbing gyms could actually leave you weaker than when you started off! Technically and strength wise we had made some great gains but in the finger strength department, especially crimping, we were going backwards. We just figured that you could go climbing heaps and that would just make you automatically stronger … apparently not 
China Climbing (Yangshuo Pt1)
Back to China and the first Pinnacle tour underway in Yangshuo!
Rock Climbing – Could Swiss Cheese save your life?
In a former life I worked for an Air Traffic Control service provider, producing training software for Air Traffic Controllers. Like rock climbing, ATC’s have a lot riding on the line, namely other people’s lives. So they take safety and risk avoidance very, very seriously and put alot of time into studying and perfecting accident avoidance systems.
It was here that I was introduced to the Swiss Cheese Model of accident causation. The concept is that between any potential hazard and accident there is a series of steps or layers. Each of these layers has a series of systemic flaws or holes that, given the right circumstances, allow access through to the next layer (Swiss Cheese). If a number of these, sometimes seemly unrelated, holes line up you end with a catastrophic accident.
Pinnacle Sports Kalymnos 2014 Tour – Pt 2
The first week of the tour was all about the detail but the second week was all about the big picture. The wide open landscapes and seascapes are the canvas for our teams efforts this week on either side of Kalymnos and neighbouring island Telendos.
Pinnacle Sports Kalymnos 2014 Tour – Pt 1
The first Kalymnos tour with Pinnacle Sports kicked off with a bang this year. With Pinnacle climbing guides Peta Barrett and Scott Hailstone. We introduced the delights of the beautiful and sunny Greek Island of Kalymnos to three first timers and two returning veterans of previous tours.
“Looking Up” – A review of belay glasses
When we started this traveling/climbing lifestyle a few years ago, our first port of call was Kalymnos, the land of 40m routes! Originally we scoffed a little at the concept of belay glasses. They seemed like expensive, slightly unnecessary climbing “bling”. After about 2 weeks we were seriously considering what we were going to do about our necks. Craning your head backwards trying to keep an eye on your climber for up to an hour at a time on route, day after day is pretty taxing on your neck. Physios can be pretty expensive when you are travelling about and although massages are nice, getting them weekly (which was what we were going to have to do at this point) was going to start adding up.
