planetFear News

Jen Olsen Fractures Vertebrae at BMC International Winter Meet

2012-02-03

The BMC International Winter meet took place from the 22nd to the 29th January at Glenmore Lodge, Scotland. At the end of the week's meet I had the fortune of meeting Canadian climber Jen Olsen, who is currently on the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup circuit however I wished it had been under better circumstances.

Haglofs Highlander 2012 Location Announced

2012-01-31

Hands on Events have announced that the venue for this year's Highlander is Kinlochewe. The village lies at the head (or south end) of Loch Maree, and is one of the main access points into Torridon.

UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup South Korea - Results

2012-01-20

For only the second year Cheongsang, South Korea was host to the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup as the first round of the series took place. Athletes from all over the world took to the stage, however once again the Russian team have displayed their dominance in the speed and lead competitions

Robert Paragot To Receive Piolets d'Or Lifetime Acheivement

2012-01-20

In 2009, the first Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Walter Bonatti. Bonatti became somewhat the patron of the award and in hommage to the man who gave his spirit to it, it is now called: the Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement - Walter Bonatti Award.

Robert Paragot will become the fourth recipient of this prestigious prize. A true amateur, the Parisian who started his climbing at Fontainbleau began his alpinism career in 1950, with the north face of the Drus. In 1954 he took part in one of the most incredible ascents in mountaineering history - the south face of Aconcagua (6995m, Argentina): the last 2000 metres of the ascent were climbed in alpine style with four bivouacs.

The climb was the first in a series of innovative expeditions: 1956, with a small team, on the Mustagh Towers (7273m, Pakistan), 1962 Jannu (7710m, Nepal), and in 1966 the north face of Huascaran (6768m, Peru). In 1971
he led an expedition to climb the wes

planetFear YouTube Account Hacked

2012-01-17

I would like to announce to all our readers and customers that within the last 24 hours - at time of going to press - the planetFear Youtube account has been compromised and subsequently shut down. This action has happened against our will and without our knowledge.

Although we do still retain copies of most of the videos posted on the YouTube channel, at present due to the action taken by someone who has gained access to our account, any links and embeds used to view the videos elsewhere on the web have been lost.

We are attempting to recover the account through the appropriate channels however the most likely outcome of this is that all information held on the YouTube channel has been deleted, including links, comments, viewing statistics and subscribers.

In the coming weeks we will attempt to restore the information previously held there but due to the volume of videos uploaded we are anticipating this taking some considerable time.

I would like to apologi