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Thursday, 29 May 2008BOULDER, Colo. - As a result of the increasing demand for Nepal adventure travel, Intrepid Travel announces a new technical climbing trek up Mera Peak.
Nepal's highest trekking peak, Mera Peak, offers all that makes Nepal a classic adventure travel destination. Warm up with steady ascents over 10 days, trekking across Nepal's famous mountain scenery. Follow Dig Glacier with stunning views of the north face of Mera to Khare, where there is time to become familiarized with the trekking kit and get in some climbing practice.
Nepal adventure travelers will trek to 6,476m and take in some of the most spectacular views as they follow glaciers, frosted rivers, and rocky valleys. Along the way, Intrepid Travel will teach travelers the art of walking in crampons and using an ice pick. These new skills will prove of good use as travelers work to ascend the summit of Mera Peak.
Adventure travelers on the new Mera Peak Nepal adventure will:
- learn to use technical climbing gear
- follow magnificent glaciers
- camp among mountains and valleys
- climb to the summit of Mera Peak
- explore the sights of vibrant Kathmandu
- experience Nepal's spectacular wilderness
The Mera Peak adventure trek lasts for 21 days and costs $3070 (plus local payment of $300). To learn more about this exciting new Nepal adventure trek, visit: www.intrepidtravel.com.
Intrepid Travel is running a 10% off discount promotion on all new Nepal and India adventure tours through June 30, 2008. For more information on this promotion, visit: http://www.intrepidtravel.com/nepalindia.
With over 19 years of experience, Intrepid Travel is one of the world's leading small group adventure tour operators. Intrepid offers over 400 itineraries in more than 90 destinations worldwide. Intrepid trips are designed to go off the beaten track, meet the locals, and travel in an unconventional way, joining locals on their transport, in their markets, and even in their homes.
For more information, contact Alexia Nestora at Lasso Communications, 303-898-3376, http://www.lassocommunications.com. /PRNewswire/
Wednesday, 28 May 2008Climb Up So Kids Can Grow Up is gearing up to be an even more exciting event this year! With amazing sponsors, great prizes, and committed participants, it promises to be an event which will save many lives.
Please register at ClimbUpSoKidsCanGrowUp today, whether you are an individual or participating as part of a team. Individuals raise a minimum of $115 and teams raise $5000... d on't worry! We provide many tips for fundraising on our website. The participant who raises the most money will win cool gifts from the outdoor industry, including backpacks, climbing chalk, magazine subscriptions, shoes, Larabars, and a luxurious hotel weekend stay for two in DC, among other things.
Our top prizes include a safari for two to Namibia, thanks to the generosity of CrissCross Namibia Safaris, and a trip for two to the top of Kilimanjaro, thanks to the generosity of Summit Expeditions and Nomadic Experience (SENE)!
Proceeds benefit children served by the American Foundation for Children with AIDS. AFCA provides life-saving medication, food, and medical supplies to HIV+ children in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Uganda.
For more information and to register, visit www.ClimbUpSoKidsCanGrowUp.com.
Tuesday, 27 May 2008Boulder, Colo. - La Sportiva is sponsoring the world premier of Big Up Productions' latest cutting edge climbing film, Dosage V. This latest installment of the Dosage series will take the art of climbing videography one step further with non-stop action, breathtaking visuals, and an unmatched roster of the world's top climbers.
The World Premier will be in Boulder, Colo. at the Bould er Theater on Wednesday, June 4 at 8pm. Tickets are $12 if they are purchased in advance from The Spot or the Boulder Rock Club, or $14.50 at the door of the Boulder Theater. Either way, every ticket includes a free day pass to The Spot.
"Big Up has redefined the entire climbing film genre again and again with their Dosage series and the climbing community has been anxiously awaiting the latest installment," said Jonathan Lantz, president of La Sportiva North America. "Dosage V promises to take us all to some of the most scenic and most difficult climbing routes on the planet."
La Sportiva will bring several of their athletes as special guests at the show including Beth Rodden, Paul Robinson, Ty Landman, and Jason Kehl. Also, La Sportiva athlete Daniel Woods, the top-ranking American in the Bouldering World Cup this year, will be attending the premier.
Immediately following the premier, free beverages will be available at the Bacaro After Party with the purchase of a La Sportiva Pint Glass to support The Access Fund.
ABOUT LA SPORTIVA
Celebrating their 80th anniversary, La Sportiva brings a strong alpine mountaineering and climbing heritage to their line of performance mountain footwear. This core experience enables La Sportiva to offer the most versatile technical climbing, mountaineering, Mountain Running®, and hiking shoes on the market. For more information on La Sportiva, visit www.sportiva.com.
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www.climbing.com
Sunday, 25 May 2008Palatine, IL - Exergame Fitness & Avanti Fitness teamed up to launch the debut of the world's only motorized climbing wall - the Skywall. Carlos Aviles of Avanti Fitness says, "Upon introducing the Skywall to the American market, our goal at Avanti Fitness was to find a distributor that could provide installation, maintenance, and develop training programs for the world's only motorized climbing wall. Exergame Fitness has proven to be exactly what we are looking for. The experts at Exergame Fitness have the ability to ensure every Skywall customer has success by offering every possible service in the distribution process. It is our pleasure to have this exclusive relationship with Exergame Fitness and we look forward to facilitating the Skywall in America."
Tommy Seilheimer CEO of Exergame Fitness added, "We are very excited to have worked an exclusive partnership with Avanti Fitness for the American market as well as providing our nine international distributors with a product that is cutting edge and fun. The Skywall is a new innovation in climbing and will provide kids, teens, adults & all climbing enthusiasts with pre-programmed courses which can take competition and personal goals to a higher level. Our company is always focused on products that generate excitement and results right off the bat. When you walk into a room and see the Skywall looking at you, your first response is to climb it. It's simple, engaging, and delivers huge fitness-based results."
The Skywall is the only fully motorized climbing wall with preset courses that change speed and incline (10 different speed/pace levels).
Skywall Product Details:
- Three Wall sizes (Large: 11'H x 8'W x 5'L - Medium: 10'H x 8'W x 5'L - Small: 9'H x 8'W x 5'L)
- Compact, space-saving design which is easy to install
- Ideal for kid and adult fitness centers
- Motorized system with 10 automatic settings
- Range of modules with varying level of difficulty
- Customized settings
- Shut down button and safety features
About Exergame Fitness:
Exergame Fitness is the world's largest distributor & supplier of Exergame fitness products to YMCA's, schools, JCC's, park districts, health clubs, hospitals, kid zones, family entertainment centers, casinos, government/VA, and more. Exergame Fitness provides Facility Planning & Installation, Grant & Funding Assistance, Program Design & Product Training, Turnkey Marketing Support, Free Layout Designs & Concepts, Detailed Programming Curriculums, Finance & Lease Options, and more. (PR.COM)
Thursday, 22 May 2008Los Angeles, CA — xRez Studio will soon capture the magnificence of Yosemite valley in unprecedented detail, orchestrating 20 photographic teams, each shooting over 10,000 images simultaneously throughout the park for assembly into one massive image.
The Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project began in summer 2007 as a discussion between xRez Studio and Greg Stock, staff Geologist of Yosemite National Park, about constructing a comprehensive, large scale gigapixel image of the valley walls in high detail. The image would become a tool for Stock’s research of rockfall behavior in the park, an ongoing hazard with the large percentage of vertical faces present in the valley. By using gigapixel imagery as an aid in re-photography, the project hopes to create an extremely detailed snapshot in time of present-day geologic conditions in order to assist future analysis of rockfall activity. Furthermore, the image will create a valuable asset for the search and rescue operations within the park, allowing detailed inspection of a given area ahead of a rescue operation.
Artistically, by capturing the full extent of the valley’s massive walls in unprecedented and extreme detail, a unique and historic image will be created that should stand for decades as an artifact of lasting cultural heritage for both the park and its many visitors and enthusiasts.
Utilizing cutting-edge emerging technologies in high resolution photography and 3d rendering techniques appropriated from the visual effects field, the final image will be one continuous, unwrapped panorama of all valley wall faces, assembled from 20 separate photographers positioned throughout the valley rim, all exposing 500 overlapping images in unison in order to achieve a congruency of light. Later in post-production, the 20 image sets will be stitched and draped onto a 1M digital 3d terrain model, recreating all shooting positions in an extremely high resolution 3d database. From this model, a synthetic camera will create an image as if flying down the center of the valley, resolving all of the gigapixel images shot into one of the largest terrestrial-based images yet created. The final image will be a long, continuous strip of all of Yosemite’s walls, a single massive image made from close to 10,000 individual frames.
Interactive displays, online exploration, large exhibition prints, visitor center installations, and fine art posters will all be final tangible results of the historic project. A 150-foot long continuous print will be displayed at this year’s Siggraph computer graphics conference in Los Angeles in August.
The Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project is dependent on support from many sponsors, including primary sponsor Microsoft Live Labs and Microsoft Research, The Yosemite Fund, Canon USA, Autodesk, Bogen Imaging, LowePro, WavGen, and Gigapan equipment loaned from Carnegie-Mellon, NASA, and Google. Shooting is planned for late May, with image completion by August.
For more information, visit www.xrez.com/yose.html.
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www.climbing.com
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