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Wide Ponies and Offwidths

Climbing Gold by Duct Tape Then Beer

Jun 12, 202652:49Sports & Recreation

Offwidths – for most climbers they are a necessary evil, but for a fringe fraction, hard, often inverted offwidth climbing is the main attraction. We talk with offwidth climbers Sam MacIlwaine and Pete Whittaker to discu...

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