Dakota Walz (https://www.dakotawalz.com/) put together this world travel + climb map for our travels the past year and a half. His work is incredible and I have to add a plug for his digital artistry. This 15-month sabbatical transformed Jeff and my sport climbing (and really our overall relationship with rock climbing) at a quantum level. We both progressed our max grade from 5.12a to 5.13a, exactly as we set out to do from the Read more
From lush jungles to rugged coastlines, sandstone cliffs to alpine granite, Jeff and I dedicated the last year to climbing and exploring some of the world’s most stunning destinations. Here’s a location-by-location guide to our adventures. The start of the sabbatical The first three months of 2024 were an absolute chaotic turmoil, but we finally picked up the pieces and started our Sabbatical! We quit our jobs, sold our car, sold our condo, literally gave Read more
TLDR; Listen to yourself: If you’re tired: Remember, the value of a workout isn’t just what you do during your training: The real benefits come from recovering afterward, as your body gets stronger, faster, leaner, and healthier. Questions to ask yourself What is your RHR, in the morning before getting up? Higher lower or average? What is your sleep quality? 8 hours? Able to fall asleep easily? What is your HRV? It’s only one factor, Read more
We spent our first week in India in the rural town of Badami in South India, known to tourists for its impressive Cave Temples, and known to climbers as perhaps India’s best sport climbing. It is close to the legendary bouldering and spiritual nexus of Hampi. If Hampi is India’s best Bouldering area, Badami may be India’s best sport climbing area (albeit much more recently developed and thus less well-known and lacking the Chris Sharma Read more
I’ve tried to start finger training many times over my 10+ years of climbing but have never been able to stick to it. My biggest difficulties were: In the past, I had a Trango Rock Prodigy hangboard mounted in my house, a load of weights, a harness and pulley system. I got marginally stronger but also got minor injuries in both hands when training two finger pockets. Luckily for me, lumbrical injuries heal fairly quickly. Read more
Jeff and I worked with Kyle Willis at High Mountain Gear to create a Russian Ice Hammock for our trip to the K7 massif in the Karakoram. Just like every climber in the world, we stand upon the shoulders of those who came before us. We took inspiration from other designs we saw, like Steve Swenson/Mark Richey, Andy Kirkpatrick and Paul Ramsden. We scoured the internet as well and found a New Zealand article and Read more
Via dei Ragni: Grade VI, 95deg snow/rime/ice, M4, 1000m Scribe/Photos/Climbers: Jeff and Priti Wright Google Street View: Cerro Torre Summit 360 Panorama We’ve had a picture of Cerro Torre on our desktops, phone wallpapers, and posters above our bed for the past 5 years. It was the reason we took up ice climbing in the first place. In February 2016, we made our first attempt on this route, hoping to at least get a glimpse of the scale of the mountain and understand what Read more
Climbers: Priti and Jeff Wright Climb Date: January 18, 2022 – January 21, 2022 Climbs/Rappels Overview In January of 2022, we completed another Patagonian “Smash ‘n Grab”, summiting three of the four peaks in the Torre Range via previously established routes (11 days Seattle-to-Seattle): Aguja Standhardt, Punta Herron, and Torre Egger. Including our ascent of Cerro Torre in 2020, we have now climbed all four summits of the Cerro Torre skyline, making Priti the first Read more
