Monday, 25 July 2011

Rock Hard

More shots from my recent trips to climbing areas in and around Hanoi. These visits have confirmed two things: 1) These people are strong, 2) I am very weak. But I went back to the Vietclimb gym a week after I took the photos, and swarmed and sweated my way around small sections of the wall like an ill, muscle-free spider and I now know two more things: 1) After 6 months of such stuff I'll need to walk through doorways sideways, and 2) At that time you would be ill-advised to ask me to hold your watermelon - I'll crush it in one hand like a quail egg. Truth.

Friday, 15 July 2011

Halong No

Further to the post below which fooled no-one, here are a couple of outtakes from a couple of shoots that took place last weekend at a climbing gym, and a rockface in Quoc Oai, outside Hanoi.

Sunday, 13 February 2011

Slo Pony

Towards the end of last year I went with The Word to Halong Bay for some Emeraude luxury and then a bit of rock climbing with Onslo from Slo Pony who, despite having been lost and frozen all night somewhere in Halong Bay in a boat not much bigger than a coracle was still laughing and full of energy; enough energy to climb an overhang with the same ease with which I'd make a sandwich.