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Cobra Crack is a 45-metre (148-foot) long traditional climbing route on a thin crack up an overhanging granite rock face on Stawamus Chief, in Squamish, British Columbia. The route was first ascended by Peter Croft and Tami Knight in 1981 as an aid climb .
The 2006 cult climbing film First Ascent, [7] followed Berthod's unsuccessful efforts to make the first free ascent of Cobra Crack, a 5.14b (8c)-graded traditional climbing route in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada; [8] which was at the time considered the world's hardest traditional crack climb (it was later free climbed by Sonnie Trotter).
"The Cobra Crack", won the best short film at the BIMFF in 2006. "If you're not falling" won Best Short Film at BIMFF in 2008 and "First Ascent" is the winner of multiple awards. Trotter is also prominently featured in the opening scenes of the hit motion picture 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2' being chased by Bella while free soloing.
Cobra Firearms, also known as Cobra Arms and officially as Cobra Enterprises of Utah, Inc. was an American firearms manufacturer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Cobra Firearms was distantly related to the "Ring of Fire" companies of inexpensive firearms makers [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and may have been a reincarnation of Raven Arms [ 3 ] and possibly Davis ...
Ethan Pringle (born May 30, 1986, in San Francisco, California) is an American rock climber with notable ascents in sport climbing (his 2015 repeat of Jumbo Love, the world's first 9b-graded route), in traditional climbing (his 2016 ascent of Blackbeard's Tears, one of the world's hardest traditional climbs), and in bouldering.
“The first thing I would do is get a big bowl and crack 300 eggs into it,” he told Fast Company back in 2001. But that experience was formative for the pimpled teen and it clearly paid off for ...
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The accident was caused by a fatigue crack in the spline, which ultimately caused the power transmission shaft to fail. The helicopter crashed into the sea. [13] 1997-12-19 SilkAir Flight 185: Musi River, Palembang, Indonesia Boeing 737-300: Pilot suicide (disputed by NTSC) 104