Animation edPixar/Disney - Lift

As a starter for the weekend a short animation film made by Pixar and Disney. Keep watching until the 5th minute is finished for the punchline ! Click picture to start the movie.

VIDEO + MINI INTERVIEW Steve McClure - Hubble (F8c+)

Steve McClure, one of Britain's top climbers, recently repeated the Raven Tor test-piece Hubble (F8c+) and in doing so completed one of his major climbing ambitions. Click the picture for the video and see here for the mini-interview with Steve.

The route is a short limestone power problem and was first climbed by Ben Moon back in 1990. Commenting on his blog, Keith Sharples said:
"Hubble was reckoned to be the first Font 8b problem ever climbed. Despite being done nearly 20 years ago, the list of Hubble repeats is very short and entirely restricted to UK climbers."

(source: blog.keithsharplesphotography.co.uk)

Forecast Netherlands (20-8-2009) Severe Thunderstorms

Forecast Netherlands for tomorrow: severe chance for thunderstorms after tropical heat stress.

Picture above is from Boulderen aan Zee 2006 when all the onlookers were stunned to see not one (quite rare in the Netherlands) but three(!!) twisters, or waterspout, at the same time. Lower picture is just an beautiful view from a storm front coming towards a ship on the ocean. Gulp.... it looks like the captain is streerin it's ship into a time warp vortex.

Spiderman, but quite different

A spiderman action in an uncommon style. 's nice to watch all the more since the guy doesn't seem to wear climbing shoes...

(source: Tinus vd Linden Thnx mate!)