Climber Online is dedicated to providing an online, global resource for climbers of all disciplines and abilities. This week Climber Online has focused on a purely individual web site by Bob Austin. Many of you will recognize the name from the newsgroup 'rec.climbing', as Bob often contributes helpful information.
Some sites deliver hard, dry and useful information.
Others strive to paint a more vivid picture of the actual climbing scene. I grab the rope with my right hand and using my left for balance press my feet hard against the wall and begin sprinting back and forth across the golden face. I thrust my body forward, left hand extended, and latch on. Sweat begins to ooze from my fingertips as I fumble with the rack, remove a Talon hook, place it on a tiny granite granule and begin to pray. I lurch backwards skidding back across wall in a helpless rag doll arc.