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Rock climbing indoors and outside is one of the fastest growing sports in Australia, offering a wide variety of disciplines and types of climbing from indoor top roping to the explosion of social bouldering in...

Rock climbing shoes are a tricky category to review. Everyone has feet that are as different as their individual climbing needs. A shoe that performs exceptionally well for one person, could quite possibly not...

Twice annually the outdoor industry gathers in Salt Lake City, Utah for the Outdoor Retailer trade-show. OR, as it's known, is one of the world's largest trade gatherings, an all important stage for brands to...

Picking up where Part 1 left off. Our little encampment occupied a nice quiet spot at the top of the meadow, with unobstructed views of the imposing face above. This would be home for the next two weeks, so...

This was it, after six months of researching, planning, training, trekking & acclimatisation; I was finally at the pointy end. The temperature was easily below -20 degrees Celsius, but the wind & spin...

Black Diamond started as a backyard project aiming to make climbing safer, easier and cleaner. The company soon ventured to producing skiing equipment and is now popular for an array of technical equipment...

Both my wife and I had been to Bali before but we decided to have a week off and spend it in Ubud in the hills of Bali about 1 ½ hours from Denpasar. In the back of my mind I had thoughts to climb Mt Agung...

Mt Kun (7077m) is part of a massif known as Nun Kun, in the Zanskar Mountains of Northen India. Nun and Kun are both just over 7000m high and stand out as some of the highest peaks in the region, not far from...

The shiny new Suunto Spartan Ultra has just hit the shelves, and I’m stoked to have the opportunity to do some pre release testing for Paddy Pallin. Suunto is marketing the Spartan Ultra (and the rest of...

Oh come on, seriously? how can they claim to be unbreakable... This was certainly my initial reaction to the Gloryfy eyewear range when I first saw it in June at the ORA trade-show last year. Of all the...