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Full text of a booklet about the British urban guerrilla group the Angry Brigade in the 1960s and 1970s containing timelines, communiques and contextual information.

Sometimes reading the route and committing the sequences to memory aren’t enough. Sometimes you need a full-on book to help you send… or at least that’s how it went for the Belgian climber Simon Lorenzi on the first ascent of The Big Island Assis (“Assis” means “sit,” for the non-Francophones), what is being called one of the hardest boulder problems in the world, possibly the second (or third, depending on consensus grades) V17 in the world. The first V17 in the world was Nalle Hukkataival’s  “The first part is reachy so I was lucky to have a good ape index and a book in ...

I still remember the first Reel Rock showing I ever went to. It was Reel Rock 7 (“La Dura Dura,” “The Shark’s Fin,” “Wide Boyz” and “Honnold 3.0”), and they had it on the UAH campus in Huntsville, Alabama. As far as I know, it was the first and last time Reel Rock came to Huntsville. This was probably because only fifteen people showed up and five of them were a bunch of high school kids, myself included. Everyone who bought a ticket won something from the raffle (a friend of mine who didn’t even climb won a crash pad, which I was a bit peeved about).