The First Ascent Recovery Tee is a shirt designed for activities where you’re going to be sweating (perspiring for the girls). I really liked this shirt, it kept me dry, felt good and of course it looks good too.

Shoe designers still find ways to tempt those of us who need the perfect shoe for a specific climb. So, as with last year, we asked them to send us their flagship high-performance sport/bouldering model and then a traddie version of the same. We recruited 15 testers with as many different foot shapes and ability levels, showing no mercy to our kicks on rock (and plastic) from coast to coast.
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The SteriPEN Journey is an ultra-lightweight water purification system that can treat 0.5 liters of water in 48 seconds using UV light.
“We’ve got a Hydro-Photon dagger that destroys living organisms by disrupting their DNA,” we said. “Oh…Ijust have a small Swiss Army knife.” the 13 year-old Boy Scout replied. After a quick chuckle and explaining that our “dagger” is really a water purification device, we sat down and explained how UV light from a small device such as this, can purify water, and that its effectiveness has been noted and …

The official launch description of the book reads -
A soulful new twist on climbing literature, the stories in Sharper Edges span two decades of climbing adventures, BASE jumping and family life. With frankness, sensitivity, philosophy and deadpan humour, Andy de Klerk takes you on the end of a rope into his world of extreme danger, friendship, heartache and loss. From the snowy peaks of the world’s toughest mountains, to leaping off cliffs, to the birth of his children, this feisty world legend ventures where no climbing writer has gone before …

Reviewed by Guy Holwill
King Lines
A film by Josh Lowell and Peter Mortimer
This movie follows Chris Sharma around the globe looking for king lines from the Mediterranean Sea to the Venezuelan jungle. For anyone who’s been away from earth for the last 10 years, Chris Sharma is one of the best rock climbers in the world and he’s the poster boy for “the life” of the pro climber.
When I watched this year’s Banff Film Festival, the one thing I noticed was that the standard of photography and the quality of
production has …