This is one of my most personally meaningful images. Not because it took several false pre-dawn starts before we got a sufficiently good cloud inversion for the image I had in mind, but because of the memories this brings me of one of my dearest friends. The climber pictured is John “Crunch” Smoothy, a true
It’s Steve McClure again, making the most of matchstick sized holds, on that grade 33 slab,
Who needs to clip bolts anyway? This photo is from 2011 and shows Lee Cossey attempting his 55m project, which he climbed on his next attempt, and
Not just another image of the Totem Pole, this is the actual first free ascent in 1995. It’s my original image yet has been rarely seen. I’ll explain why below but first….
TWO BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS:
A little Spanish action. Daila Ojeda demonstrating Mind Control (8c+) at Oliana, in Catalunya.
Oz climbing just would not be the same without this man. Not as rich. Not as colourful. Not as interesting or damn entertaining. Show him some love.
This one will test your screen resolution, and isn’t a normal instant in-your-face kinda shot suited to social media, but zoom in, take a look, and you might see
#unpublished Garth Miller on One on One (33/34) at an obscure crag known by some as Little Italy, in Blue Mountains.
Malcolm (HB) Matheson measuring up to Bell Boys Bereavement (26) in The Gorge, Mount Buffalo.
