I’ve always been skeptical of Gore-Tex footwear, and it’s almost guaranteed that I’ll have cold feet regardless of the temperature (unless I’m clunking around in double boots), so I was curious to see how the Lowa Cristallo X Pro Gore-Tex boots would perform climbing and scratching around the Canadian Rockies.
“In amongst the purple Chianti haze, I spot a thin crack in hard rock. Replacing the heel-hook I grab the small wires from my harness and without hesitation bite the green wire. A sickly-battery-taste makes me gag…”
Simon Richardson shares his inspiration: Giusto Gervasutti. “As a teenager, consumed by a newfound passion for mountaineering, I had a voracious appetite for climbing books. I read my way through the school library and then the local town library, seeking out more adventures and experiences on the written page, so that I could gauge my own faltering beginnings in the sport.”
I stumbled across an article on buildering and what it’s perceived to be in the non-climbing community. I was surprised to find out that it’s been around since 1905 when Harry Gardiner started climbing various tall buildings around the world, eventually climbing about 700 around the world.
The swell-forecasting models were predicting the biggest swell of the year to hit northern Africa by week’s end, and the crew had only a matter of days to slip away to the world’s best waves.
