Tall Tales of Hot Rock
These pages tell the story of Hot Rock... from unpublished 1st ascents to epic adventures, and from the best travellers tales to a baby's-eye view of the trip. Together with some brilliant piccies of course. Enjoy!
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High and Dry in Persia An article about the Hot Rock Silk Routes month climbing in Iran. Big Walls, dehydration and gunfire!! |
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Southern Sandstone Short article on the climbing we found in Southern India around Hampi and Badami on the Silk Route trip. Monkeys, temples and bouldering!!!!! |
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Turkish Delights Tales from Turkey on some awesome new routes and existing crags. Loads of mosques, beaches and limestone walls. |
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Chaos in Kenya The 'On the Edge' magazine article about the 1999 East Africa expedition in Kenya. Bagfulls of new sports routes, crocs and burning mountains |
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Sinai Tales from the two times Hot rock has been climbing in Egypt. Plenty of big unclimbed sandstone, camels and blokes called Mohammed |
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Desert towers Dave's diary exert from the big walls of Kassala in Sudan on the Global Challenge. Run out slabs, soaring cracks and deadly birds. |
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Zanzibar Hot Rock takes time off from climbing on the spice islands. As much mopeds, beaches and dolphin swimming as you could shake a stick at |
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The lost Mountain The story of the first ascent of Mt Wehni by Hot Rock. The trip to this un climbed volcanic thumb of rock in remote Ethiopia is worth a read. Loads of recalcitrant donkeys, big walls and the arc of the covenant |
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The Rocks The best little campsite in the world. Boudering and routes that start out of the bar |
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Base Jump Kenya Read Daves view of mad Stevo's Kenya B.A.S.E. jumps. Freefall, getaway taxis and chaos. |
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Sahara The truck of climbers cross the Sahara desert from Egypt to Sudan. Plenty of digging, breakdowns and sand |
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The warm heart of Africa 2 weeks climbing in Malawi from deep water bouldering to 1,700m big walls. Loads of lizards, chilling and falls |
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Zimbabwe Granite Based in East Zimbabwe, Hot Rock explore the vast area of unclimbed granite domes. Mucho new routing, slabs and ladies of the night. |
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Namibian Adrenaline Vic falls to Swakopmund as Hot Rock Skydive, White water raft and do some awesome big desert climbing in the Kalahari. Splashes, off widths and freefall galore. |
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Wobbling Wombats Hot Rock goes first world with a two month transit of Australian crags. Loads of G'days, epics, awesome sandstone and wombats |
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BiRTAs The Big Red Truck Awards. Who will take the Homer Simpson award for stupidity? Stacks of quotes, climbs and cook teams |
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Mini-Me Read the story of the first Hot rock baby Kira. How was life on the truck in South America. Tonnes of nappies, gurgles and crawling |
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Enchanted valley Patagonia adventures living in a cave and climbing in the Andes from the round the world crew. Lots of cracks, caves and cold |
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Climb Indo Hot rock searches for crags In Bali, Java and Sumatra as they weave their way back to England. Bucket loads of Jungle, conglomerate and Owls. |
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The Reunion Fi gets reunited with the truck as the group explore the fantastic limestone cliffs of Malaysia and Singapore. Plenty of complaining dutch, flying trucks and killer bees |
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Oriental Rock The story of Hot rocks passage through Thailand and Laos. Gross amounts of cocktails, pumpy sea cliffs, deep water solo's, night ascents and water fights. |
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The Crash The torrid tale of the near disastrous truck - tree interface on the silk route trip. Lot's of bent metal, shattering perspex and topless trucks. |
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Traaaaiiiiiiiiiinnnnn The story of Hot Rock climbing in Bolivia and Peru. Quite enough tales of breakdowns on rail crossings, tear gas and cragging. |
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Tequila Sunrise Fi, Dunc and Co tackle the huge limestone walls of El Potrero Chico in Mexico. Mucho stories of tarantula's, new routes, falling blocks and bottle pushing |
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U.S. of A. Hot Rock go's stateside after hiccups at the border and sizzling days at Joshua tree. Like heinous amounts dude of borders & boulders |
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Riding the Pig Rich Heaps account of his first big wall route on the 1999 Hot Rock Africa Expedition up Mt Poi. 600m of skyhooks, Rp's, tied off grass tufts and faith. |
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Pasa Del Condor Hot Rock tackle some Andes classic rock. Grande amounts of views, runouts and christmas food. |
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Himalayan Hot Rock A team of four take on the ascent of Paldor in nepal in 2001. Himalayan size amounts of self arrested falls, whimpering team members and cold feet. |
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China Climber The climbing around Yangshuo in southern China on two different Hot Rock explorations of the area. Boiled snakes, boat-trips and endless limestone |
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Equatorial Ice The ascent of Cotapaxi in Ecuador by Dunc N' Crew on the 2003 South America trip. Cracking amounts of cloud, cold hands and snowy wandering. |
