The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival starts their Fall Series tonight at The Rio Theatre, kicking down the doors with a special talk from Jon Walsh, a Calgary based alpinist, who has sought adventure in high and wild places for over two decades, followed by the film Citadel, directed by Alastair Lee.

The first mountain film shot in 4k, Citadel features hardcore UK alpinists Matt Helliker and Jon Bracey as they attempt the stunning NW ridge of the remote peak ‘The Citadel’ deep in the Neacola range, Alaska. The world’s first mountain film shot entirely in 4k, a stunning visual treat reveals alpine climbing like never before.

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Here is an update of Ondra today. He is going to top out soon!

End of pitch #28 . @adam.ondra @blackdiamond #dawnwall #elcapitan #yosemite #liveclimbrepeat #blackdiamond

A video posted by Pavel Blažek (@pavelblazek) on Nov 21, 2016 at 12:53pm PST

End of pitch #25 . @adam.ondra @blackdiamond #dawnwall #elcapitan #yosemite #liveclimbrepeat #blackdiamond

A video posted by Pavel Blažek (@pavelblazek) on Nov 21, 2016 at 12:45pm PST

This weekend, The Knotty Burl played host to the Squamish Access Society’s Golden Scrub Brush Awards. Special thanks goes out to SAS for making this event happen each year and supporting the developers in our community.

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Defy Training is a great video series featuring a variety of techniques to improve training and cross training for climbing. These massage video will only make you stronger! The first of this series is less serious in nature. Four more videos below!

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That is a wrap of day one at the 2016 SCBC November Sessions hosted by Climb Base 5. What a wild show! A big second of the year win for both Jani Zoraj and Kin Wah Lai!

Here are the final results. Follow Squamish Climbing Magazine for update!

Women’s Open

1. Jani Zoraj
2. Tiffany Melius
3. Lucie Horzova
4. Sophie Buitendyk
5. Christy Spurrell
6. Gillian Haigh
7. Heinz, Jana
8. Vest, Allison

Men’s Open

1. Lai,Kin Wah
2. Luo,Ivan
3. Taplin, Jesse
4. Wellington, Matthew
5. Mah,Jason
6. Johnson,Gavin
7. Hoy, Ryder
8. Funk,Andrew

Starting early this morning, Climb Base 5 kicked off the second bouldering competition of the year! With competitors rom across BC arriving early, we have the results going into finals that will be starting at 345pm. Here are the competitors going into finals.

Jani Zoraj at Fall Classic. Photo by Shane Murdoch ©

Women’s Open

1. Zoraj, Jani
2. Hrozova, Lucie
3. Vest, Allison
4. Buitendyk, Sophie
5. Melius, Tiffany
6. Haigh, Gillian
7. Heinz, Jana
8. Spurrell, Christy

Men’s Open

1. Johnson,Gavin
2. Luo,Ivan
3. Taplin,Jesse
4. Mah,Jason
5. Wellington,Matthew
6. Lai,Kin Wah
7. Funk,Andrew
8. Hoy,Ryder

*will be updated as results become available

This weekend, Climb Base 5 will play host to the second bouldering competition of the season. Doors open for finals at 345pm and will surely not disappoint. The house was packed last year, so be sure to get their on time to get you place on the mat.

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Today, Adam Ondra reported via Instagram that he has made it to pitch 13, where he will rest for the day and continue his push to the summit of El Capitan on Thursday. Pitch 13 is where the business really starts, with the two hardest pitches standing in his way to the summit. Very exciting!

Adam Ondra (@adam.ondra) continues his blitz of the #DawnWall on #ElCap, Yosemite, completing pitches 10 (5.14a), 11 (5.13c), 12 (5.14b) and 13 (5.13b) on day two of his final push. Ondra called it "a pretty tough day" and "more exciting" than he expected. Read more about Ondra's #finalpush on rockandice.com. #whatsyourdawnwall #bigwall #bigstone #yosemite #sending

A photo posted by Rock and Ice (@rockandicemag) on Nov 16, 2016 at 9:09am PST

Es Pontas (9a) was set up by Chris Sharma in 2006 after 3 years of working on the route. The line got popular by showing his ascent in the movie “King Lines” by BigUpProductions. Many climbers have tried to do the second ascent since then, but no one succeeded – until Jernej Kruder showed up in October 2016 and repeated the route after just 39 tries. He agreed to Chris Sharma in not putting a grade on the route: “I’ll just stick with Chris’ words: This thing is so specific. For sure it’s about 9th grade, but there are so many different factors. Like the dyno. If there are 200 people in the world climbing 9a, maybe just 10 percent of them can do it. Then there is the fear factor. The mind battle of trying it all over again without knowing if you’re able to do all the moves or not.”