Rock Climbing

The snow covered mountains overlapping each other stretched before me with near familiarity. A party of seven, we wound our way up one of Mount Cupola’s iced couloirs, careful to space ourselves, [...]

5:00AM. The alarm sounded, my blood pumped coffeelessly in the sunless cold. My slumbered senses jarred with the harsh start of steep rock. Months earlier I heard her name: Mount Hopeless. [...]

Click to read Michael Donovan’s previous reviews: Part 1 on Black Diamond Hexentrics, and Part 2 on Wild Country Rockcentrics. DMM Torque Nuts: Torque Nuts are the only hexes I’ve placed in [...]

Contributed by: Shawn Michaels @ The Smart Lad An outdoor climbing experience can be a little different from your childhood backyard climbing endeavors. Even people who are adept in a rock [...]

Click here to read the first part of Michael Donovan’s review on hexes, the Black Diamond Hexentrics. Wild Country Rockcentrics: I still remember the day my Rockcentrics arrived. My trad [...]

Contributed by: Dan Lawler, CTO @ WayWiser As a mighty Auckland weekend climber, Friday climbing missions are a hard operation to pull off, despite Auckland traffic being simply delightful and my [...]

We laced our crampons and lashed our ice axes tightly to our wrists, ready to take on Girdlestone: the sharpest peak of Ruapehu’s twelve, and my first alpine obsession. We started up the steep [...]

“Would you rope up on this?” asked the Alpine Instruction Course students, pitching up the north shoulder of the pinnacles. Piers, Michael and I smiled, knowing what only mileage lets you know: [...]

String those nooses up people, I’m about to ask for a lynching because I’m going to finally open my mouth in public about hexes. The big brother of nuts and the poor cousin of cams; wrapped up in [...]

WayWiser recently caught up with Andrew Powell, National Marketing Manager for Bivouac Outdoor – a position he’s held for the last 15 years. Andrew’s currently based out of [...]