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I hold and squeeze the finishing hold using the full might of my thumbs, the strongest pins of the hand. Realising I won't fall I whisper a sweet nothing into the resin and drop off. In the time it takes to impact the foam beneath me the moment is gone. A flush of the toilet. The person you swap eyes with on a bus opposite you. That last crisp you had.
Nothing until the end
Nectar in written form is dead. Long live the audio.
Updated. www.nectarclimbing.com
Some new words, brief words at that. Yes I put them in the wrong section...
THE Cave on Cat Ba Island, Vietnam. It's is a walk down the road out of town and up into a side street. We get lost but some builders point us in the right direction. We walk through an elderly...
Handing over to Dave Roberts while I'm away. I know, who will post all these updates?!
Gutten Nact,
Read this
Danke
Good evening,
Read this
Thanks,
Luke
Local crags, in many ways these are the most important. Driving an extra hour to that amazing place for the weekend is but a drop in the ocean, but driving an hour after work to get your fix is...
Hi
While you're making breakfast please watch this beautiful piece of nothing with Dave Roberts
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RF2Rm6WfsWM
From an original concept by David Roberts and Ric Booth. Filmwork by Ian Nesbitt. Soundtrack recorded at Harwood Street Studios, Sheffield; Ben Tenpenny (osc...
Please check out this new podcast from one man psyche builder Gus Hudgins. Perfect training music.
First up, a mix from Mr. Climbing Works, Sam Whittaker aka DJ Galup
Enjoy!
Podcast/ Radio show featuring techno and house music talent that we're lucky enough to be surrounded with here at our base in Sheffield, and beyond.
If you like a piece of writing on the site please feel free to share it 🙂
Notes in the margin - by Andrew Moles
“To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime’s experience...A gap in a hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small...
Redpoint by Peter Goulding
Last August I found something I really wanted to do. Cool name, on the slate, technical - not too technical, unthuggable. Not too long either. Definitely pushing my grade. I got on it, and...
Two themes that pop up quite often are the sea cliffs of this island and redpointing on the short limestone cliffs. Peter and Andy have wrote about these topics in a very honest way. Hope you're all enjoying summer starting.
Has anyone done something they'd like to write about?
Peter and the sticky black
http://www.nectarclimbing.com/words/on-friction
The grit at Black Rocks is cold. Its frequently green and greasy, but not today. The temperature is low, maybe a few degrees above freezing,the wind is arctic and dry. It tries to snow, a couple of...
Tis the season to be jolly, fa-lala-la-lala-fall off
http://www.nectarclimbing.com/words/city-slickin
Sorry for the lack of updates folks. Stuff on the way in a week or so
Oli G gives us his short and sweet 2015 round up.
Spoiler: He didn't do Liquid Ambar
http://www.nectarclimbing.com/words/the-good-the-bad-and-the-grounsell
A climber in a flat land lets us in on his inner thoughts when you're deep into training and potentially questioning why you started and where it ends?
http://www.nectarclimbing.com/words/mid-way-through-the-training-cycle
A couple of new framed photos up on the site
I like the idea of the perfection, that moment when all those moves come together in a single moment. The quality of the experience, enriched through time and interaction: getting to know the route,...
There is a shrub of the Nilgiri Hills, the kurinji, which is only said to flower once every twelve years. Lives and marriages are measured against the indigo blossoming of the slopes, and each...
Bedtime Story
David Roberts has kindly sent in a short story
Have a read and don't take a breath when the going gets weird.
Thanks David
There is a shrub of the Nilgiri Hills, the kurinji, which is only said to flower once every twelve years. Lives and marriages are measured against the indigo blossoming of the slopes, and each...
After the climbs are done the chalk is soaked away ropes de-tangled and bagged a last look at the crag an empty stomach driving home after the sport is done you have friends a mixed bunch, I give you...
Chris and Guy talk about their very English adventure in the Picos De Europa
I can remember the first time I read the name Naranjo De Bulnes; it was while reading through a particularly inspiring thread on UKBouldering.com entitled 'Long, Hard and Moderately Free'. From the...
Ben Silvestre takes you to a place where most of us fear to tread
Mike stands back as I knot the end of the rope and hurl it into the void. It falls cleanly into space, the coils whipping over the edge until it snaps tight, the end hidden by a thick blanket of...
Dunc Campbell on his favourite subject - North Wales Rock
North Wales; one of the best climbing areas in the world. Hundreds of classic, adventurous, brilliant routes in a variety of settings, sculpted from a variety of rocks, requiring a variety of...
http://www.nectarclimbing.com/words/the-power-of-low-expections
Expectation has a funny effect on redpoint performance. As soon as you know a route “will go”, that sneaky excited feeling comes into play. If a route “goes” quickly thereafter, the feeling...
Warm your icy fingers on retrospective orange limestone
Mallorca 2015
Climbing; the cause and cure of all my problems
I sit at my desk and let out a big sigh, inhaling deep to refill the lungs I get a twinge in my ribs. After a split-second of pain I realise that my face doesn't hold a grimace but a smile. Almost...
228 likes, that's someone's favourite number.
It appears the seasons are changing (I'm using the winter duvet)
Has your summer finished or do you have more to give and take?
Send a picture you've taken and a short piece of text, that way you can say 1100 words in one fell swoop.
Updates coming soon, I'm done for this year, time to start pontificating.
- Luke Passer
A reflective piece of writing from the enigmatic Ben Silvestre -
http://www.nectarclimbing.com/words/the-irony-of-empty-spaces
He's on a roll, it's the Livingstone -
http://www.nectarclimbing.com/words/strawberry-fields-forever
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