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[slideshow] Bigwall Route Development in Namibia (NMAG winner) · Thursday, October 6th, 2022
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Start: Thursday, Oct. 6th, 7:00 pm
Description:
We are kicking off this year's slideshows by one of last year's Neil MacKenzie Adventure Grant winners. Nina and Cole Robertson went to Namibia this past summer for some bigwall adventures, developing a new route on the magestic Spitzkoppe.
Come join us listen to Nina talk all about it!
Location: IRC 3 (woodward)
Here's a sneak peek from Nina:
After receiving the Neil Mackenzie adventure grant, my brother and I spent a month camped beneath a red granite massif called Spitzkoppe. Located in the ancestral territories of the Indiginous Damera people, Spitzkoppe emerges from the arid Namibian deserts of southwest Africa. We were there to develop the last unclimbed line on the peak. The project was a comedy of errors; an opportunity to build relationships with a new ecology and geology; a stress test of our relationship as adult siblings and an exploration of my own limits as a climber. It turned out to be sixteen pitches of toe cramping slab, which we called The White Streak because the route follows a bleached water runnel, which drops 400 meters straight down from the southwest face. I began wanting to learn the hard skills of big wall climbing and route development. However, I left knowing more about myself, my blindspots, and my fears than bolt placement, jumaring or portiledge life.
Posted: 2022-09-29 10:15:15
Last modified: 2022-10-06 15:27:14