What does this represent? Founded in 2002 by professional rock climber, Ben Moon, we are a small team of passionate individuals with a lifelong love for climbing and the great outdoors. After climbing them Moon named them after French military disasters, first the Maginot Line, at Volx, and secondly Agincourt, at Buoux.In 2004 Moon was still climbing, although he was concentrating on bouldering and teaching. I’d been doing that for about ten years, then a couple of guys got in touch with me separately, Dale Cebula an app developer and Chad Jensen from Alaska who’d developed a LED system and together we developed the LED version of the Moonboard with runs off the app via Bluetooth. Bor Levičnik, Signorina Fottemberg, 7a, Cadarese, Italy © Aleš Česen — with Aleš Česen and Bor Levičnik. Please let us know if you think data we have about Ben Moon (rock climber)'s height is not correct. A lot stronger and also a lot fitter. Copyright © 2017-2020 Moon Climbing Ltd. All rights reserved.
Does anything surprise you nowadays?Well the level of the top climbers, in particular Adam Ondra, is unbelievable really.
It’s definitely considered 8c, the first 8c in the world.
Do you think climbers are a lot stronger then you guys were in the ’80’s and ’90's?Yes I do. We’ll see.Info: www.moonclimbing.com. Wolfgang had put up Wallstreet a few months before you did Agincourt. I really, really want to try and get Northern Lights finished. It takes about 3 minutes to climb and it’s really really sustained at a certain level, around the Font 7B+/7C mark I’d say. I left home when I was 16 and moved to Sheffield when I was 17.
With the current state of affairs throughout the world, many of you have decided to take the plunge and build your own MoonBoard. Three decades after having established Agincourt, the first 8c sports climb in France, Britain’s Ben Moon returns to Buoux to test himself on some of the crag’s cult classics - such as La Rose et le Vampire by Antoine le Menestrel - and recall what it was like during that pioneering period in the 1980’s when sport climbing was just being developed. Certainly. There were no climbing walls at this time (1983) so we climbed outside wherever we could, whatever the weather.
MoonBoard Holds: 7/10/20. And in fact the place where I fell off on the redpoint is being done differently, too.
If you’ve only got 40 minutes, with the app you can blast through a load of problems really quick.
I remember having a telephone conversation with Wolfgang about it, he was obviously interested in my opinion and how Action Directe might compare to Hubble.
The Moonboard came about because we had the Schoolroom in Sheffield where we trained on these very basic holds and boards and that’s when I got the idea of having a board with standardised fixed holds so that anyone could recreate and climb on exactly the same problems. The hardest route I had climbed in 1983 was around E3 (maybe 6b+) and by the summer of 1984 I had climbed Statement of Youth. As the sport developed from its embryonic beginnings, in less than a decade Moon pioneered climbs from 8a all the way to 9a, leaving his mark like few others before or since. Ben Moon, then a 29-year-old rock climber, surfer, and adventure photographer, assumed that the blood in his stool and his ongoing fatigue were due to the rigors of traveling or to a virus he had picked up along the way.
In 2015 he proved that age is no barrier to hard sport climbing and, aged 48, he climbed the 9a Rainshadow at Malham Cove, while in 2018 he made a rare repeat of the fierce 8c+ Evolution at Raven Tor, England. Northern Lights at Kilnsey is a route I first started trying in 1993, I spent about 30 days over the next three years trying to do it.
What’s important to understand is that back in the early 1980’s bolts were pretty new and, in Britain in particular, not particularly appreciated.Yes very definitely. It was considered one of the hardest rock climbs in the country, but the reason why it made so much noise wasn’t only because it was so hard, but because I’d placed six or seven bolts on it.
To be honest I can't believe how it's all worked out because I couldn't have planned it better if I tried and I can't believe I am writing this.
It’s the proud lines that you feel most proud of.Sport climbing and bouldering. It’s not like it’s the hardest, but it’s a real classic.
And like I said, it didn’t actually take me that long. Is that speed down to the fact that it really suited your style of climbing?I’m probably more strength orientated, although I reckon my endurance is pretty good.
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A driving force in the 1980s and 1990s climbing scene, Ben was among the first climbers to instigate modern redpoint tactics on climbs and helped revolutionise the sport. In a way I didn’t really realise I’d done something particularly special, it only settled in years later.
I failed to repoint it and in the end gave up, then Steve McClure contacted me in the late '90’s asking whether it was an open project and I told him he was welcome to try it, especially since I'd given up sport climbing at the time and was just concentrating on bouldering.
Hubble is essentially a very hard 6 move boulder problem straight off the ground. And maybe nowadays indoor climbing is even bigger than outdoor climbing! Ben Moon photography video motion lifestyle, adventure, portrait, and music BEN MOON STILLS/Adventure STILLS/Norway STILLS/Faces STILLS/Daniel Norris STILLS/Alex Honnold STILLS/Life STILLS/Bands STILLS/Medellín STILLS/Album Art STILLS/Nau MOTION about clients contact PRINTS BOOK Celebrities more often then not want to keep their love affairs secret, if you happen to know the name of Ben Moon (rock climber)'s partner, please leave a comment in the section below.
Many people ask about the amount of money Ben Moon (rock climber) makes from Instagram. I remember when Marc Le Menestrel came to the UK in the early 1990’s and he walked up to Stanage with what was perhaps a prototype crashpad on his back and we all wondered what it was. I suppose Voyager Low Start means a lot to me because it’s the hardest boulder problem I have climbed and was unrepeated for a long time.
In the UK they were quite controversial at firstIn the UK, yes, not really elsewhere I wouldn’t say.
In some ways it’s ideal for climbing walls because they don’t need to set any problemsWell that’s one of the interesting things, because of how most climbing walls are managed nowadays, problems change every 4 - 6 weeks, so with new problems being set there are never any benchmarks. */. I look back on those early teenage years as some of the best. TOPO: the crag Buoux. And to leave your mark, above all with Agincourt, France’s first 8c.During a 10-day period in 1988 I repeated La rage di Vivre, Le Minimum and Le Spectre, which at the time were the hardest routes in Buoux and among the hardest in the world.
Concentrating hard on one project makes it difficult to concentrate on other aspects in your life. Ben Moon "Climbing is one of the best things to do in life and travelling is another one. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. Bouldering in Gran Canaria by Max Raeuber, Hangboard Training Routine with Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen.
You mentioned Jerry. While few can say they have climbed one of Ben’s routes outdoors, they can at least try their luck on his Moonboard benchmarks indoors.
Up until Northern Lights I’d never really spent that long trying a route. Of course I’ve not always been super motivated, for example for the first 5 years or so after my daughter was born I was less keen, but that’s normal, motivation goes up and down but the important thing when you’re not super motivated is to hang in there and keep going until your motivation returns.
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