Something inspiring to start your week:

Here's something that I just thought that I'd share. It isn't some new gear that's been brought out this week or a new route that's been done. Instead it's some incredible cinematography which has been done as part of Yosemite HD. Myself, having never been to Yosemite, has to settle with the fact that this might be as close as I get to this American climbing Mecca, but strangley that's ok with me. I've got a life time's worth of climbing in North Wales, let alone the rest of the UK. Then again, who knows... I might make it to Yosemite after all.

Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.

This is also the first time I've tried to embed a video from Vimeo.. I think its worked!

A heavy gravity day...

I know I've used this as an excsue before and it's a commen (if somewhat joking) complaint when climbers can't do a move. However some research produced by NASA shows that you can indeed have a heavy gravity day. 

 

The picture above is taken from here. It is a exaggerated relief map that shows how the amount of gravity you'll feel in certain areas. There is apparently a low point just off india and a high point in the South Pacific. So next time you're feeling like you can't pull up any more, I guess you could just blame it on excess gravity.