planetFear News

PlanetFear Open 24

2010-07-27

The third and final race of the planetFear Endurance series began with rather more of a splash than a bang on Saturday, as 63 teams, eager to round off the series in style, embarked on an epic 24 hours of endurance, navigation and adventure in and around the North Wales National Park.

DMM International Recall on the Dragon Camming Device in size 6

2010-07-27

Reported on UK Climbing.com is the announcement that DMM have recalled certain model numbers of the DMM Size 6 Dragon Cam.

UKC report:

'23 July 2010: DMM International has identified a raw material problem that may affect the strength of certain units of the Dragon Cam in size 6 (Product Code A7056A). This recall only involves the Dragon Cam in size 6 and no other sizes of Dragon Cam are involved.

The problem originates from a structural defect in a raw material that is uniquely used to make a single component on the size 6 Dragon.

Serial Number to Serial Number

100410391B 100410495B
100530326B 100530430B
100530326B 100530430B
101160512B 101160601B
101310001B 101310100B
101400101B 101400200B
101400001B 101400100B
101440201B 101440300B
101440101B 101440200B
101440001B 101440100B
101670001B 101670085B
101681214A 101681298A
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planetFear Open Adventure Endurance Series Results

2010-07-26

Results are now online courtesy SPORTident via the Open Adventure website for the planetFear Open 24 and the series winners.

http://www.openadventure.com/results.php

Report and video from the Open 24 will be available shortly...

Arco Rock Masters 2010

2010-07-22

The town of Arco in the Sarca Valley, Italy has just been host to the 2010 IFSC Rock Master World Championships. Founded in 1987 the Rock Masters has enjoyed 22 years of uninterrupted climbing competition, and has since its existence been considered ‘ahead of its time,' as far as climbing competitions go.

The Rock Masters saw one of the first ever artificial walls built and in 2000 Arco Town Council spent over half a million Euro's re-developing the wall. The competition has come a long way since its inaugural event now 23 years ago, from humble beginnings climbing the Rupe del Castello wall on real rock, to the insitu competition wall where media coverage from the event now spreads across the globe.

It's not just the wall that's seen re-development over the years, the nature of the competition has also changed, what was once an invitation only event where 16 of the world's best climbers fought it out, now sees entries from anyone pr

planetFear Open 24 Wales Teaser Image

2010-07-21

Open Adventure's James Thurlow has released a teaser image from one of the special stages that will take place as part of the planetFear Open 24 this weekend in Wales.

Check out the planetFear Facebook page for the teaser image and to see if you can guess where it might be...

http://www.facebook.com/planetFear