# Sandy Allan

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Sandy Allan, IRATA number 3

Ever wondered how the 3 levels of the IRATA training syllabus came about?I guess if you have a chat with Sandy Allan, IRATA number 003, you would hope he would shed some light on the back story.Having started rope access back in the early 80's Sandy has a tale to tell, you may need a cup of tea or …

Ep 24 - In Some Lost Place Audiobook (Chapter 1)

In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the Himalaya – the giant Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat, the world’s ninth highest mountain. At ten kilometres in length, the Mazeno is the longest route to the summit of an 8,000-…

Clouds Come and Go

In the last two episodes we looked at aspects of flow, whether seeking the euphoria as an escape or chasing it as a performance tool. But there's an area of climbing where flow won't be enough. The objectives are too long, too complex and too unpredictable. At altitude everything becomes harder, y…

EpicTV Weekly #13

00:28 After four accidents in one week, one of which was fatal, Chamonix’s town hall called a halt to wingsuitering. Two Chamonix locs – wingsuit pilot Roch Malnuit and paraglider pilot Sean Potts – state their views on the decision. 16:04 On 15 July, after 13 days of difficult climbing on the 13-k…

Third Man Syndrome

In 1916, struggling across the mountains of South Georgia after the loss of the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton sensed that his party of three had become four. T.S. Eliot carried the idea into The Waste Land with "Who is the third who walks always beside you?", also a reference to the biblical tale of…