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Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Join Stephen Venables in 2013

ME Pro partner Stephen Venables... "2013 will be the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest. It will also be the 25th anniversary of our 1988 Anglo - American - Canadian Kangshung Face expedition, which Reinhold Messner described as ‘probably the most adventurous in Everest history’ (and no we didn’t pay him to say that).

I intend to celebrate our Silver Jubilee in style, starting with a trip to the Antarctic Peninsula. Skip Novak, with whom I have already led two expeditions to South Georgia, has agreed to be co-leader of the Antarctic expedition, and make his 22.5m yacht Pelagic Australis available for a four weeks charter from Ushuaia.

Yacht-based skiing and climbing is one of life’s great adventures; doing it on the Antarctic Penisula is as good as it gets. With eight berths available on Pelagic Australis, there will be scope for both keen Skier/mountaineers and people who would just like to come for the sailing, scenery and wildlife.

The dates: February 1st to February 28th 2013 plus a couple of days each end travelling to and from Ushuaia. We are still working on the detailed plan and prices, which I will send in my next newsletter. In the meantime, please allow yourself to be tempted by this trip of a lifetime, and tell anyone else who may be interested."

For more information checkout Stephen's website here where you can signup for his newsletter

Images - South Georgia 2008 expedition - Stephen Venables Collection

Monday, 1 August 2011

Nick Bullock: Latest

Want to know what ME Pro partner Nick Bullock has been up to over in North Wales? Then head over to his blog here where you can check out his latest post.

Orange Blossom Special. E1 5b *. 30m.

The horizontal break above Scintillating Witches on Golden Wall. photo Nick Bullock Collection

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Welcome to the team - Jen's Holsten

We are pleased to announce a new addition to our Pro partner team... Jens Holsten.

Jens is a alpinist/rock climber based out of Leavenworth, Washington, USA who is fast establishing himself on the US Climbing scene with both his impressive of tick-list of climbs and writing style.

Over this past winter Jen's has been busy putting up new routes in Patagonia such as Jardines Japoneses (650m, 5.10 A1 AI4 M5) with Mikey Schafer and Colin Haley (more info here) as well as several new lines in his backyard of the Cascades, he has also just returned from climbing trip to Yosemite.

Below are a few shots of Jen's putting some of of AW11 Styles to the test out on Mt. Huntington, Alaska back in early June’11.

You can read more about Jen's and his recent exploits over at his blog here

Thursday, 21 July 2011

Mountain Equipment mit Gore-Tex® Active Shell: bereits jetzt exklusiv bei ausgewählten Händlern

Das neue Gore-Tex^® Active Shell – extrem leicht, hoch atmungsaktiv und macht jede Bewegung mit

Firefox Jacket

Firelite Pant

Das lange Warten hat ein Ende: Startschuss für das neue Gore-Tex® Active Shell 3-Lagen Laminat!

Bereits jetzt, zwei Monate vor dem offiziellen Verkaufsstart im September, habt Ihr die Möglichkeit das absolut neueste Gore-Tex® Laminat zu testen, denn Mountain Equipment bringt bereits jetzt jeweils eine Jacke und eine Hose für Damen und Herren in die Shops.

Ob auch ein Shop in Eurer Nähe dabei ist, seht ihr hier:

http://invia.de/news_detail.php?id=123

Sunday, 17 July 2011

Hills, light drizzle and cramping thighs

Was it really a year ago I wrote this?
Hathersage Sprint Triathlon time again. I really like this triathlon because, as it says on the t-shirt, "it ain't flat".
I left the tradeshow a bit earlier than usual to be back on Saturday night in time for my 9.18 start on Sunday morning. There was intermittent drizzle and a bit of a wind, but nothing like the rain that came in the afternoon.
Despite my plans following last year's triathlon, I didn't do all the training, so had no great hopes beyond taking a couple of minutes off last year's time by not spending an age in each transition.

Feeling tired with the main hill still to come

I don't have the splits yet but I had a pretty good race. I swam harder, was closer to the limit during the bike and hammered down the hills in the run, finishing in 1:31:27.