Outdoors

Hong Kong Climbing

I didnt  exactly have a good experience climbing in Hong Kong. In fact, I didnt have any experience at all. The weeks prior to my trip there I made numerous attempts at contacting the climbing community there which yielded no result. Emails went unanswered and requests for more information was also to find no response.

Trying to connect to the community I tried going to the YMCA with a climbing gym in it and perhaps hook up with some climbers there. I managed to get some directions to Beacon Hill which is just off the Kowloon Tong station
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People

HOT ROCK IN MALAYSIA

The Hot Rock Global Challenge team is here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! If you dont know who they are, please visit their website at http://www.climbhotrock.com

In summary, our hard core hot rock friends are a bunch of climbing enthusiasts who in the famous Big Red Truck BIRT (that has circumvented the globe numerous times) they go from country to country and visit the climbing spots to do some climbing and touring the interesting sights while they are at it.

I heard of Hot Rock some 8 years ago back when it was run by a guy named Stewart who has since retired [...]

Gyms

COMPETITION AT PUTRAJAYA CHALLENGE PARK

1. ORGANIZER
1.1 Jabatan Belia dan Sukan Wilayah Persekutan
1.2 Putrajaya Corporation
1.3 Extreme Sports Association of Malaysia
2. WITH COOPERATION
2.1 Mad Monkeyz Climbing Gym
2.2 Climbing Instructor Academy (CIA)
3. PARTICIPATION
3.1 This is a team event
1 team : 2 men & 1 woman
4. CATEGORY
4.1 Open Team Category
Quota : 30 team
5. EVENT DISCIPLINE
5.1 Bouldering
5.2 Speed Climbing
Jabatan Belia dan Sukan
Wilayah Persekutuan
6. REGISTRATION
6.1 Registration form to be email to shah2412@gmail.com
6.2 Registration closed on 19 November 2009.
7. COMPETITION FORMATE
7.1 Each team should do bouldering and speed climbing.
7.2 Each team has to collect points in bouldering and speed to determine the
winner.
7.3 Bouldering :
• 10 minutes will be given for each [...]

News

Where are the Contributors?

Sorry that lately there have been no updates on this site. It is in a way because I have grown tired of being the only one updating it even if we have a list of contributors who are able to log in themselves and add content about their experiences and news. I have received lots of support from friends and strangers online and offline… but for the most part support has been of the lip service variety, and only a few individuals made the effort to contribute anything, and to those few I say thank you very much.

For all those [...]

Equipment

Belaying Partner Safely, Part 1

This is an English translation of an article by Walter Britschgi featured in Bergundsteigen 2/04 page 64-69

Belaying Partner Safely, Part 1

Elementary Belaying mistakes and the 3-leg-logic

by Walter Britschgi

Note: the following has been translated from the following German source:

http://www.bergundsteigen.at/file.php/archiv/2004/2/64-69%20(sicher%20partner%20sichern,%20teil%201).pdf

If you wish to comment on the translation please email climb@camp5.com