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Friday, October 23, 2009

Mental Training


Click on the text to access this short article by Will Gadd. It was posted on his blog and was written about the subject of mental training for competition climbing, however I think it applies equally as well to cutting edge alpinism. I will go further and venture to say that this is the most overlooked element of an alpinist's training.
Posted by Hock at 1:56 PM
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