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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jan 29, 2015 - 07:37pm PT
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Addy doesn't work. . .
boo hoo!!!!
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jan 29, 2015 - 08:24pm PT
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Wonder what sort of Border Patrol thuggery might be waiting there for the next poor guy who does that without the proper "papers"?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jan 29, 2015 - 09:07pm PT
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Fukkin' Canadians, eh?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 29, 2015 - 10:33pm PT
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He's Canadian? I thought it looked like he had two left-handed axes.
Probably didn't know he was on the wrong side of the falls, too.
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Jan 29, 2015 - 10:42pm PT
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Frozen Poutine.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jan 30, 2015 - 03:07am PT
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Looks like some sweet 5+ but it did look reasonably solid with rock behind the ice not water.
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wallyvirginia
Trad climber
Stockholm, Sweden
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Jan 30, 2015 - 04:27am PT
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This one reached mainstream news in Sweden. Maybe something did change concerning media's interest in climbing after the dawn wall ffa?
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Gunkie
climber
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Jan 30, 2015 - 06:11am PT
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Looked like the US side of the falls.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jan 30, 2015 - 07:11am PT
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Unreal. . .
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jan 30, 2015 - 07:33am PT
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Anyone who says New York sucks for anything outdoors has never been to upstate New York.
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Jan 30, 2015 - 07:42am PT
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Bad ass. Ice climbers are crazy.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jan 30, 2015 - 07:43am PT
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Ice climbers are crazy Always have been. Always will be.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jan 30, 2015 - 09:46am PT
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Yup.
That would be a Hoser climbing on the You-Ess side [Goat Island] next to Horseshoe Falls.
The gorge has long been closed to ice climbing, and it says it took him about a year to get permission to climb there.
Nice to see a proper lead of the falls, and not some toprope. Of course, they had to put in the dangling legs shot, eh?
Great send, Hoser!
Incidentally, Niagara Falls is formed where the water flows over a caprock of hard dolomite. There is a weaker shaly layer underneath, and the water erodes that preferentially. What this means is that the lip of the waterfall is constantly collapsing - especially Horseshoe Falls - and that the falls are receding [moving upstream] at a few feet per year. Certainly the lip of Horseshoe Falls is noticeably farther upstream than when I was a kid.
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Under Achiever
Trad climber
Los Angeles
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Jan 30, 2015 - 09:50am PT
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I just deleted my thread: "Niagra Falls: First Ascent"
Before posting it, I searched for 'Niagra' on SuperTopo. Good grief.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jan 30, 2015 - 09:57am PT
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Damn Yankees, can't spell worth a damn. ;)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 30, 2015 - 07:14pm PT
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hey there say, all... wow this was fun, in quite a few ways, :)
neat stuff...
thanks for sharing... :)
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
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Jan 31, 2015 - 03:03am PT
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Will, aka Captain Adventure, missed a great opportunity ...
He should have d-bagged his paraglider and jumped out of a high hovering helicopter, spiral diving his wing into a spot top landing on the top of the waterfall, and then rapped, and then had done the ice climb. I'm dissapointed Will.
Just kidding. Great guy with a great eye for record breaking adventure. Pretty cool.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jan 31, 2015 - 08:36am PT
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Only real men climb ice
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 31, 2015 - 10:14am PT
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Fact ....
If he didn't drink Red Bull he would never have made it .......
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Yury
Mountain climber
T.O.
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Jan 31, 2015 - 07:27pm PT
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the lip of the waterfall is constantly collapsing - especially Horseshoe Falls - and that the falls are receding [moving upstream] at a few feet per year. Erosion essentially stopped after significant flow of water was redirected to power generating stations on both sides of the border. Current flow of water doesn't have enough power to cause erosion.
As far as I understand at least in the last 10 to 20 years the lip of the waterfall was stable.
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clandrock
Mountain climber
North Vancouver
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He is on the Canadian side of the falls ... you can see the horseshoe shape in the last couple of scenes.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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still awaits a summer ascent
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melski
Trad climber
bytheriver
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woweewoow,,I did;nt know you were a CAN--oook pete,,so that would explain how you knew he used 2 lefthand axes and the route was so much shorter on that side of the river,,,
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 20, 2015 - 08:57am PT
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When asked "what are you going to do next?", although it is hard to hear over the sounds of the water, Mr. Gadd is believed to have replied, "well I have to go back down".
[Click to View YouTube Video]
It apears that there are about 30 videos now. Here is a copycat climb. I honestly do not know whether this guy is from Canada or U.S. It's problematic, he wasn't interviewed seemingly because he was fluent in neither French nor English.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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