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Review: Grampians Climbing - Sport...

By Neil Monteith (www.onsight.com.au, 2013, RRP$46.95) In the VL bunker we were super excited to get our greedy hands on a copy...

Bouldering World Cup - Innsbruck...

The biggest and the best round of the European Bouldering World Cup season takes place in Innsbruck, Austria, and Vertical...

Bigger than the Second Coming

What could possibly be bigger than the Second Coming of Christ (besides, obviously, the Romanian entrant to Eurovision 2013,...

Bouldering World Cup - Round Four...

So how do I review the best competition of the year so far? First, if you haven’t seen it go straight to the IFSC website...

The Wonder Years

Last night after work I took my son down to our local park. It was cold and windy, and with the end of daylight saving it was already...

Taipan News: Trouser Snake

This season has already been one of the most productive of recent years on Taipan Wall, with the ascent of one of the wall’s...

Review - The Network (film)

Firstly, who doesn’t want to see Taipan – majestically bathed in golden light – and hero-to-climbers Kilian Fischhubber...

Bouldering World Cup - Round Three...

The third round of the 2013 Bouldering World Cup season was held in the Austrian Mountain Village of Kitzbuehel over the weekend....

The Indoor Game

Phil Goebel muses on indoor climbing and calls for participation in the Victorian State Titles, which are being held on 4 May Most...

Arapiles new route - Big Al draws...

In all the brouhaha of the last couple of weeks VL missed some important news. Last Friday Natimuk local and poster...

Andrea Hah: the Punks in the Gym interview...

Vertical Life speaks to Andrea about her repeat of Wolfgang Gullich’s 1986 masterpiece, Punks in the Gym (32), which was the second...

Light is Right? Wrong

Maybe I am getting old, but it seems to me that our obsession with making climbing gear lighter has gone too far. I say ‘maybe...

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