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36 | CORINTHIAN SPIRITS
Over the last few years, the limestone crags around the small town of Leonidio in the Peleponnese have seen a signi cant surge in visiting climbers. French photographer Sam Bié travelled there with a team of top climbers including Japan’s Saatchi Amma to reveal the place that’s already being called ‘the new Kalymnos’
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12 | CRYSTAL VOYAGERS
A portfolio of stunning images to round up the 2016 Real Rock Tour, featuring big walls on Baf n Island, the Bugaboos, and rising star of US climbing Brette Harrington in Yosemite
18 | THE WIND IN THE PINES
Japan lies off the radar of most European and American climbers, yet there’s superb trad and sport crags to be found amid the black pines, plus some stunning granite bouldering. David Pickford travelled there last autumn to uncover the secret vertical world in The Land of the Rising Sun
28 | THRESHOLD SHIFT
Last year, leading British mountaineers Nick Bullock and Paul Ramsden went to the seldom-visited western region of Tibet to attempt the unclimbed North Buttress of Nyainqentangla South East: this is the story of their epic climb of a superb new route in one of the wildest parts of the Himalaya
Regulars
6 | HOT LINES
Jeff Lowe’s Eiger masterpiece, Metanoia, nally gets a second ascent, young Brits on form in Spain, plus a special report on the ways in which age can be an advantage in climbing and mountaineering
42 | THE CLIMB INTERVIEW:
RICKY BELL
David Pickford talks to Ireland’s leading climber, Ricky Bell, about the routes, crags, and characters that have de ned his climbing life, the unique nature of the Irish scene, and the big lines we might expect to hear of in the next few years
54 | VERTICAL DIARY:
FOUR DEGREES OF SEPARATION
Andrew Coish was part of the Shef eld climbing scene in the early 1990s, and was closely involved with its fabled centrepiece - the ‘Old Schoolhouse’ training board. This is the true story of a real British climbing legend
57 | MY CLIMBING LIFE
Eleanor Fuller talks to British climber Tim Hakim about the challenges of climbing with early onset Parkinson’s disease, and his plans for the Eiger North Face this year
59 | GEAR OF THE YEAR
Kevin Avery reviews the groundbreaking new Procline ski boots from Arc’teryx
60 | GEARING UP
Kevin Avery examines the crucial issues of cooking, hydration and nutrition in the mountains, with expert advice from nutritionist Rebecca Dent
68 | MOUNTAIN WORLD
Lindsay Grif n reports on the spectacular Cerro Kishtwar in the Indian Himalaya, one of the most appealing and impressive peaks in an overlooked region of the Greater Ranges
76 | THE CLIMB REVIEW
An exclusive preview of Multipitch Climbing in Europe,
a stunning new photographic book by globe-trotting Dutchman Martin Fickweiler, plus we review Rock Climbing in Yosemite Valley, a lavish new guidebook to America’s most famous crag, and Surviving Logan by Erik Bjarnason and Cathi Shaw
82 | POSTCARD FROM THE EDGE
Reverend Bob Shepton, skipper of the yacht Dodo’s Delight, keeps watch on Greenland after two members of his team closely avoid a polar bear’s picnic
48 | INTERSTELLAR SPACE
Steve McClure investigates what it means to be a 21st century rock star, how that’s different to what it meant a generation ago, and what the young climbers of today might need to become the leading lights of their own era
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