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Natalie Afonina
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2008
Doing a lot of climbing, adventuring, storytelling and documenting my adventures near and far. Find me on instagram or my website to get in touch!
Ice Climbing Montana: California Ice in the Beartooths
An all time classic deep in the heart of the Montana mountains. A fairly involved approach with 1500' of gain up WI1/2+ steps leads to 700' of beautiful steep ice climbing with difficulties up to WI4/4+ that tops out on the Beartooth Plateau up at 10,000k of elevation. We tried to take a shortcut to get down, but dropped too low into a cliffed out couloir before reversing and traversing to find the descent proper! Great full value day.
It took Jackson Negri and I 2:45hr to get to the base from the car and a roundtrip time of ~11hr car-to-car. Beautiful climbing with long rope-stretching pitches, some mountain goats and a grizzly bear scare made for a classic Montana backcountry ice outing!
It took Jackson Negri and I 2:45hr to get to the base from the car and a roundtrip time of ~11hr car-to-car. Beautiful climbing with long rope-stretching pitches, some mountain goats and a grizzly bear scare made for a classic Montana backcountry ice outing!
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Big Walling in Yosemite (Slow and Heavy): Freerider in 7 days
มุมมอง 24K6 หลายเดือนก่อน
I met Michelle 24 hrs before we set off to climb El Cap together. Not a bad start to a climbing partnership when your first pitch together is on the Big Stone! It was her first time aid climbing or up an El Cap route, so we went big and heavy and brought enough food and water for 5-6 days of climbing. This gave us all the time in the world to have a relaxed, chill ascent where we weren't presse...
Big Walling in Yosemite with Strangers: The Prow on Washington Column
มุมมอง 14K7 หลายเดือนก่อน
48 hr prior to heading up the wall I received a Facebook message from a random stranger on the internet who was looking for a climbing partner after his original partner had to bail early. 'Why not' I thought? Worst case...well there were a lot of worst cases, but sometimes the internet provides. I jugged up the first 3 pitches to meet Ben Bickel (for the first time) and continue the climb with...
Multipitch Sport Climbing in Montana: Cold Forged Steel in the Bridger Mountains
มุมมอง 8469 หลายเดือนก่อน
Alpine bolt-clipping for pitch after pitch on spectacular limestone slab in the Bridger Range, just out of sight from the Bridger Bowl ski area. 5 pitches of gloriously sticky crimps and footholds with surprisingly high-quality rock, difficulties up to mid-5.10, only one or two spots where a cam was useful and bolt-clipping the rest of the way. Great half-day romp objective with a spectacular r...
Alpine Climbing in Montana: The Beartooths Tower of Innocence
มุมมอง 9489 หลายเดือนก่อน
'Montana has no rock climbing'... yeah kinda true except not. Hidden away are granite walls that require a bit of grit, anticipation of the unknown and sense of old-school-style adventure to climb. On the last day of autumn, before a winter storm blew in, we rallied for a day climb of the Tower of Innocence (5.10 8-ish pitches of adventure climbing on granite) in the Beartooth Mountains. Beauti...
Alpine Climbing British Columbia, Canada: Mt Slesse
มุมมอง 2.6K9 หลายเดือนก่อน
Took advantage of a late autumn weather window to get on the classic Mt. Slesse ridge climb. Expectations were high, rock quality was low, exposure was 5 stars and the positioning on the ridge was one of a kind. We wanted to relax and watch the sun set and rise without being in a hurry, so we split this climb up into two leisurely days. Highly recommend going for a bivy mid-climb because the sl...
Climbing Grand Teton: Solo of Upper Exum Ridge
มุมมอง 2.1K9 หลายเดือนก่อน
Great day out climbing with my good friend Aaron Mulkey on the Grand. My first time climbing in this mountain range and Upper Exum was the perfect route to get acquainted. We initially were going to simul as a group of 3, but I quickly realized it would be safer and easier to solo next to them and out of the way than to try and simul on a 70m through dozens of other parties. Climbing felt secur...
Lost City Trek Colombia: La Ciudad Perdida
มุมมอง 1.3K9 หลายเดือนก่อน
5 days trekking to the Lost City in Colombia's northeast corner. Home of the Tayrona people. Waterfalls, snakes, torrential downpours, beautiful sunsets, and ancient ruins in the most beautiful part of Colombia.
Climbing Wind River Range: Pingora & Wolfs Head Cirque of the Towers
มุมมอง 2.1K9 หลายเดือนก่อน
"I don't think I've rappelled or multipitch climbed in 2 years" - my partner Mara 😂. One of those perfect trips that starts with a phone call and then 24hr later you and your friend are driving through the night to meet up at the trailhead. Mango smoothies, bagged salads, warm granite and incredible views are hard to beat. My first time climbing in this range and it blew me away. Mara and I had...
Big Walling in Yosemite: Freerider on El Capitan (Free Ascent by Mike Holmes)
มุมมอง 24Kปีที่แล้ว
6 days on the wall, 13/30 wet pitches, snow on our bivy ledges, waning hours of daylight, a post-covid lingering cough and Mike Holmes was still able to send and free climb Freerider! What a beast. It was late November, a huge snowstorm blanketed the valley, but Mike Holmes, Kyle Higby and I saw a weather window and decided to make an attempt on Freerider, a route on El Capitan (the one Alex Ho...
Alpine Climbing in BC, Canada: The Tantalus Traverse
มุมมอง 6K2 ปีที่แล้ว
With a two day weather window showing up on the forecast, we set off on this 25 mile, 17,000' of elevation gain traverse across the skyline which seems to be a right of passage for any alpine climber in the BC area. The significant snow this year allowed for fairly easy travel and by doing this in 3 days we were able to enjoy beautiful sunsets at our open bivy sites. We approached from Sigurd C...
Alpine Climbing in WA Pass: The Hitchhiker (5.11-, 900')
มุมมอง 4.1K2 ปีที่แล้ว
Led all the pitches of The Hitchhiker (5.11-, 9 pitches, 900') on South Early Winter Spire at Washington Pass on June 25, 2022. Very snowy for the year, so crampons and ice axe were necessary and post-holing was definitely the first crux! Dry rock, baby goats and perfect sticky granite for nine full-value pitches were the reward. Moderate, modern alpine climbing in the North Cascades with all p...
Climbing Castle Crags: Cosmic Wall
มุมมอง 1.9K2 ปีที่แล้ว
Driving from SF to Seattle on I-5, somewhere right around where you're ready to pull over for the night, you'll see granite spires poking out. I've driven past them for years and finally decided to make a pit stop. We climbed Cosmic Wall which is 700' of chill, romping goodness that tops out on a ridge summit. With 2500' of elevation gain on a winding hiking trail, it's a great way to stretch t...
Climbing in Alaska's Brooks Range: Arrigetch Peaks
มุมมอง 5K2 ปีที่แล้ว
It was summer of 2020. The summer of covid lockdowns and I was getting cabin fever. Somehow I convinced two of my lady friends to join me on an expedition to the Gates of the Arctic National Park. 3 weeks later begins the tale of how a blonde, brunette and a redhead bushwhacked their way through the Arrigetch Peaks. There was far more backcountry bushwhacking than climbing, epic bush plane flig...
Climbing in Yosemite: Voyager on Fifi Buttress
มุมมอง 4.2K2 ปีที่แล้ว
Weekend warrior trip to Yosemite from San Francisco to climb Voyager on Fifi Buttress. First established in 2013, with 700 feet of beautiful crack climbing, clean falls and very well-protected, this is a gem of a climb and has quickly become a Valley classic. We started the climb around 11am and were down in time for swimming, meadow hangs and campsite fires! This was my 3rd time climbing this ...
Climbing in Patagonia: Aguja Guillaumet
มุมมอง 14K2 ปีที่แล้ว
Climbing in Patagonia: Aguja Guillaumet
Climbing in Patagonia: Aguja de l'S via Austríaca
มุมมอง 8K2 ปีที่แล้ว
Climbing in Patagonia: Aguja de l'S via Austríaca
Ruth Gorge Alaska Climbing - Goldfinger
มุมมอง 3.5K10 ปีที่แล้ว
Ruth Gorge Alaska Climbing - Goldfinger
As a non-climber; did you sleep in your harnesses or were your sleeping bags somehow anchored ?
Not necessary here. Giant ledge that would’ve been very very very difficult to roll off of so we didn’t anchor in to sleep
Wow. Impressive. Thanks for sharing.
super !!
Nice climb, I would definitely start with the bigger bivvy 😅
This is an example of how low grade climbing is tough, for people maxed out at the grade (not the team here, I gather). Things you don't find on a repeat of the Phoenix, 5.13: Route finding difficulties. Lots of bouncy ledges if you fall; (post friends), no pro. I started climbing at 12 in '72. Nuts were just coming out. I lead everything. Grades are often a lark, too, because the gate keeper types have the skill where they can do a 5.3 as a 5.5, and make use of that extra hold. I can remember some pretty sketchy leads.
Where in the us do you live?
Wow, spectacular views! Thanks for sharing 🖖
sick!
Im a pretty decent climber but thinking about the exposure gets my hairs up. How is the exposure on that ledge? We're doing this this month.
Awesome. You 2 rocked it on style. Me and an old NOLS buddy are headed in to climb Pingora in August. I’m 58. He’s 60. ✌️🤩
When someone else is living your dream
Great video. Curious as to why you took your boots off to cross the river? Don't you worry about slipping over.
Because I like dry feet
Hi! Wondering what company you did the hike with? Thanks!
That looked fun. Your attitude inspires others 😁
Trying to plan this traverse for August. Where did you guys set up your 2 bivy sites?
Trying to plan this traverse for August. Where did you guys set up your 2 bivy sites?
Trying to plan this traverse for August. Where did you guys set up your 2 bivy sites?
This is so cool, I didn’t realize it takes so long to get all the way to the top! Nice job you guys
I always keep the lower out video downloaded. 😂
Love it, I'm looking at this route for July this summer!
How do you get down?
That is where I climbed and guided trips for 35 years. You were blessed with the killer weather. Denali Park is my home
That's a gorgeous climb, and a perfect day for it.
what is that knot for the rappel? it's not fisherman and not EDK.
Figure 8 follow through
What sizes of cams did you use? what would i need if I want to do it?
Looks like some real good ice climbing !
@17:36 those are some bulky man hands
Lens distortion on the go pro. I actually have really small hands and have a hard time finding gloves that fit
Envious!
Bello!
I gotta get in shape. This looks so rad and so fun. I’ve gotta get back into climbing.
Instagram reel sent me here, another channel I can live vicariously through 😂 👍
Craziest thing I've seen so far!
Coming from a “boulder bro” this was sick!! Nicely done!
Ben seems so chill
Hell ya, amazing climb!
Beautiful video. Full of smiles and courageous climbs. Congratulations from Italia. And sorry for my bad english😅
You ladies are simply ,Amazing! However, I get anxieties just watching your video😂
Great job and great video!!
Красивый видос!
Epic film , respect ladies !, ❤
Great vid!!
You are the coolest , hottest, gnarliest woman I’ve never met. Damn. Kinda wish I knew something about climbing. I just race DH mtn bikes.
epic!
Outstanding!
Congrats for the video, keep going with the channel please, i enjoy a lot! 😀
How do you take chicken sausages up a wall like that and not have them go bad? o_o
Sausages of all kinds have lots of preservatives. If they don’t get too warm, they’ll last a week. I usually put mine wayyyy deep into a haul bag so they’re in the dark and insulated throughout the day. At night, it’s cold enough to keep them chilled
rad keep it up !
Great stuff!!
Super cool and authentic video! Happy to have stumbled upon you and your channel 😃
Beautiful ladies climbing a beautiful wall, having fun,enjoy… thanks for sharing