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Backcountry.com: The Goat:  The Vertical Limit Guide to Climbing

The Mountain World:  Monday Morning Time Waster

ClimbingNarc.com:  Learning To Climb…At The Vertical Limit

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The best #climb ing instructional film ever: http://bit.ly/6uxgBR - Don't let little things like physics get in the way of entertainment. 12/16/2009

Check this video out -- Vertical Limit Guide to Climbing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxtg7raPDYo 12/16/2009

an inaccurate how to climbing -- by the movie Vertical Limit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxtg7raPDYo (HILARIOUS!) 12/14/2009

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The Vertical Limit Guide to Climbing
Backcountry.com: The Goat —

Monday Morning Time Waster
The Mountain World — Fantastic sequence of annotated "instructional" clips from the baddest bad climbing film of all: Vertical Limit.

Learning To Climb…At The Vertical Limit
ClimbingNarc.com — Back in the year 2000, I distinctly remember being excited when the “climbing” movie Vertical Limit came out.  My excitement wasn’t so much about the movie itself, but rather the excuse it gave for a large group of climbing friends to get together and go to the movies.  Always good times. As for the movie itself?  Well…if you’ve seen it you know.  Vertical Limit is quite possibly the dumbest movie ever made, with one possible exception.  It was almost as if there was a contest among the makers of the movie to see who could get the most absurdly improbable climbing scene in the movie. ...

2009 Year In Review Part 4
ClimbingNarc.com — Click here to read Part 1 (Jan. – March) here to read Part 2 (April – June) and here to read Part 3 (July – Sept.) of the 2009 Year In Review. On to Part 4: October 40-year-old Yuji Hirayama visited Canada (in September really) and repeated Cobra Crack (5.14 trad) among other notable achievements (Link). Big Up Productions released their latest movie, Progression.  I interviewed Josh Lowell about the movie (Link) and provided my thoughts in a review (Link). The 2009 Triple Crown Bouldering ...