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Allison Vest (born June 26, 1995) is a Canadian rock climber known for competition climbing, bouldering and sport climbing. She won the Canadian Bouldering Nationals in 2018 [ 1 ] and 2020. [ 2 ] She also came first in Canadian Lead Nationals in 2019, [ 1 ] and placed 10th in the World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar in 2019. [ 3 ]
Sean McColl (born 3 September 1987) is a professional rock climber from North Vancouver, Canada.In competition climbing, he competes in the competition lead climbing, competition speed climbing, and competition bouldering disciplines, and has won major competitions in all three.
Hiking to the ridge from Lions Bay takes approximately four hours and gains 1,280 m (4,199 ft) in elevation. Most hikers stop there as both the East and West Lion peaks require rock climbing equipment and expertise. The East Lion is out-of-bounds for climbing as it is located in the Greater Vancouver watershed.
Darlene Thomasina Pidgeon (born 1975) is a Canadian rock climber known for being one of the world's strongest female boulderers in the early 2000s and 2010s, was for a time the strongest female Canadian boulderer, and was the first Canadian female to climb the grades of V10, V11, and V12. [1]
Yip was born and raised in North Vancouver. [3] Her mother is Scottish and her father is Chinese. [4] She began climbing when she was nine [5] when her godparent's children became interested in climbing. [6] She won her first National Climbing Championship when she was twelve. She trained to be an engineer, specializing in mechatronics.
In the morning they broke into two groups, the others climbing Mount Elsay (then known as Mount Jarrett) and headed up Bishop Creek. Among the Bishop party was a Mr Cromie, former owner of the Vancouver News-Advertiser (which became the Vancouver Sun). Upon reaching the summits of the two mountains at about 9.30am, the two parties of climbers ...
The British Columbia Mountaineering Club (BCMC) is a mountaineering organization, based in Vancouver, British Columbia.Founded on October 28, 1907 as the Vancouver Mountaineering Club, it became one of the centres of Canadian Mountaineering, particularly in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia.
The steep southern slopes of the North Shore Mountains limit the extent to which the municipalities of Metro Vancouver's North Shore (West Vancouver, the District of North Vancouver, the City of North Vancouver and the Village of Lions Bay) can grow. In many places on the North Shore, residential neighbourhoods abruptly end and rugged forested ...