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Ads is the name. Adventure's the game. 📸 Outdoor freelance photographer
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My worst red flag? 🚩Toxic optimism. Thought I could fix the rust and repaint the van in a weekend. Two months later, I emerged from a cloud of dust and paint fumes - $15k saved by doing it myself, but bankrupt in sanity, and took a solid loan of blood, sweat and tears to go with it. Wouldn't recommend... but at least this winter, the water is staying outside my home on wheels. The Winter Sprinter lives on ❄️
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#vanlife #vanlifestyle #sprintervan #vanconversion #astro #astrophotograph #longexposure #indiancreek #nomadict #milkyway #nightphotography
20 Oct 2025
Shot some photos with a random bloke a couple of weeks back for an upcoming project 👀 They say never meet your heroes, but turns out @realwillgadd was even more of a legend in person than he appears in the spotlight. A day of trying to contain both my giddy stoke and self-imposed pressure, but the stoke lost for sure 😅 Will spotted this rowdy alternative roof curtain that had me tucked high up in the back corner with my crampons around my ears for the photos... Shoving my butt in Will's face wasn't exactly how I expected to get to know him but it was a solid icebreaker for sure 🙃
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📸 Sony A7IV / 14mm F1.8
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#mixedclimbing #snow #winter #mountains #mountain #mountaineering #climbing #rockclimbing #climb #climber #hiking #climbinglife #sportclimbing #iceclimbing #canada #canadianrockies #rockymountains #rockies
26 Mar 2025
Truly one of the most memorable movements I've ever made in ice climbing, even in climbing in general 🤯 This roof of Aquadisiac is normally formed as a full hanging dagger but due to the wild season we've had, it's now a 3 metre roof with a wafer thin curtain to use for feet. Cutting loose under this monster, gently finding delicate feet on the curtain so as not to break it while fighting for solid tools around the roof... you don't get that every day! It's rated M7 WI6... but with the roof in its current state I think you could argue the ice was tougher than that. Took this photo of George pulling through the lip, but was lucky enough to go back the next day with Andy and get the ice on lead as well.
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📷 Sony A7IV | Sony 14mm | f5 | 1/1250s | ISO1000
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#mixedclimbing #snow #winter #mountains #mountain #mountaineering #climbing #rockclimbing #climb #climber #hiking #climbinglife #sportclimbing #iceclimbing #canada #canadianrockies #rockymountains #rockies
03 Mar 2024
Appreciating the fluidity of life. Of the wonderful 12 person crew we had in the Bugaboos this year, literally none of them are in my immediate circle at the moment. The closest is a 5 hour drive away, almost all of the rest are back in their home countries of Ireland, UK, USA and New Zealand. In Australia I lived a largely consistent life - friends, work and living seemed a lot more predictable, and I suppose I equated permanence with quality and meaning. While here in this lifeatyle, it's quite the opposite. Initially I found this saddening (and I'll admit, pretty lonely), but it's forced a perspective shift for me. Appreciating the friendships, connections, circumstances and experiences as they come and as they are. Not taking them for granted and, as some connections come to an end, appreciating the journey that was. It's a shift that, even if I return to some semblance of stability, I hope to hold on to for the rest of my life. Big love to my friends all around the world 🧡
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📷 Sony A7IV | Sony 14mm / Sony 24-105mm
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#mixedclimbing #snow #winter #mountains #mountain #mountaineering #climbing #rockclimbing #climb #climber #hiking #climbinglife #sportclimbing #iceclimbing #canada #canadianrockies #rockymountains #rockies
16 Nov 2025
It's fun to be the Gumby again. In the rare moments of calm on the big schnoz recently, I caught myself thinking about why these ridiculous pursuits pull me in so hard. A lot came up, but at the core—it’s the thrill of learning something new and being wildly out of my depth. Sure, I could show up more prepared and with more than a few hours’ sleep… but I froth that rapid growth and the chaos of being a total beginner again.
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That said, I did at least have one day of big wall experience prior to El Cap. A throwback to last year with @rowanbulpit on the Washington Column - not a failure... A 'learning experience' that quickly taught us we had no business on The Nose that year 😅
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📷 Sony A7IV | Sony 14mm | 1/240 | f2.0 | ISO250
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#climbing #rockclimbing #climb #adventure #mountains #climber #hiking #climbinglife #mountain #sportclimbing #tradclimbing #tradisrad #bouldering #yosemite #yosemiteNP #bigwall #elcapitan #thenose
12 Nov 2025
For Halloween this year , @chris.cam__ and I dressed up as two people who looked like they knew what they were doing on a big wall. Our facade on The Nose (El Capitan) quickly became pretty obvious 😅
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For 6 days we balanced on a precariously fine line between success and total failure. With almost zero aid or big wall experience and about 22 hours sleep over those 5 nights, we were figuring out every pitch, every problem and every process on the fly while our brains and bodies were red-lining the entire time. And we made it work, but holy moly, it took absolutely everything we had in our tanks.
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It's really hard to capture our experience with words. I started climbing 6 years ago. I've seen countless movies of big wall adventures, of climbs on El Capitan (both free and aid), but none of them convey the true complexity, difficulty and physicality of life on a Big Wall. We definitely made it hard for ourselves in some aspects, and I can't wait to go back and try some others with more efficiency once my fingers have stopped bleeding, but it was a monumental and gruelling team effort for both Chris and I (as well as for two friends we made on the wall).
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Definitely more photos and stories to come, but this was a photo I grabbed when we first rolled into the valley. The familiar sight of blinking head torches 1000m up on the wall, with a daunting prospect of whether that would be us in the days to follow.
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📷 Sony A7IV | Sony 14mm | 15s | f2.5 | ISO2500
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#climbing #rockclimbing #climb #adventure #mountains #climber #hiking #climbinglife #mountain #sportclimbing #tradclimbing #tradisrad #bouldering #yosemite #yosemiteNP #bigwall #elcapitan #thenose #astro #astrophotograph #longexposure #milkyway #nightphotography
05 Nov 2025
Butterflies and nervousness always set in as I'm trying to get those pitiful hours of rest before a midnight start. This night in the Bugs was deathly still; the only things I could hear were the gentle tumbling of distant rockfall and the thunderous snoring next to me. So I got out of the tent to stretch my legs, only to see that the clouds had lifted and the Milky way was out to play. I didn't get much more sleep that night, but I did get some pretty cool snaps of the Howser Towers which we would be climbing the next day.
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📷 Sony A7IV | Sony 14mm | 20s | f1.8 | ISO3200
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#mixedclimbing #snow #winter #mountains #mountain #mountaineering #climbing #rockclimbing #climb #climber #hiking #climbinglife #sportclimbing #iceclimbing #canada #canadianrockies #rockymountains #rockies#astro #astrophotograph #longexposure #milkyway #nightphotography
23 Oct 2025
Pretty sure the main reason my Mum uses Instagram is to see whether I'm still alive... Which makes me pretty much dead for most of the last two years 💀 Time to spool up the content turbo and spray some old adventures down the tube!
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I've been failing to get to the Bugaboos for the last three summers - forest fires, thunderstorms and faffology have got in the way each time. Finally scored a two week stint there this year and golly did it deliver! I'd frankly forgotten how good it feels to move around in the alpine, even the rambles like Bugaboo Spire were an absolute dream. Just being back in these landscapes, it made me feel at home again ❤️ Debbie and Ed cruising the descent down towards the col with the majesty of the Howsers behind them.
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📷 Sony A7IV | Sony 14mm | 20s | f1.8 | ISO3200
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#mixedclimbing #snow #winter #mountains #mountain #mountaineering #climbing #rockclimbing #climb #climber #hiking #climbinglife #sportclimbing #iceclimbing #canada #canadianrockies #rockymountains #rockies#astro #astrophotograph #longexposure #milkyway #nightphotography
22 Oct 2025
Most people can't climb 5.12c at their peak - yet Stas got tantalizingly close to pipping Chain Reaction last year while being borderline disabled with a herniated disc in his back. He could barely walk to the rock and winced in pain carrying a bag, but putting a rope on this lad is like saying WALKIES to a doggo 🐶 The lad is unstoppable - unless you ignore said herniated disc, continue climbing in the 5.12s while cranking all manner of painkillers, and eventually end up unable to roll out of bed several days later. But they're just details...
Side note - my boy is talented. Audio on this post is from a little side project of his - @manorismband 🧡 Give them a listen!
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📷 Sony A7IV | Sony 70-200mm | 1/2000s | f3.2 | ISO200
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#climbing #rockclimbing #climb #adventure #mountains #climber #hiking #climbinglife #mountain #sportclimbing #tradclimbing #tradisrad #bouldering #indiancreek #smithrock
08 May 2025
Years before coming to Canada I'd wanted to give van life a shot, but I had no idea if it was a novelty that would quickly wear off. I'm over two years deep into this passion project that's been a rollercoaster from the get go, and I can't see it ending anytime soon. There's the cliche reasons for sure, but it's also helped simplify my life, contain my desire for useless shit, and also a creative and engaging outlet for my relentless noggin. I'll never be done building this bloody thing, and maybe that's why it hasn't got old, but evening views like this also help 🙃
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📷 Sony A7IV | Sony 14mm
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#vanlife #vanlifestyle #sprintervan #vanconversion
23 Apr 2025
We made life way fkn harder than it had to be on the Garrabaldi Neve Traverse, carrying all the usual overnight junk while still pushing to do it within the day, including the summit. But jeepers, it was such a joy to be camping way out on the Neve under the full moon again.
If you were to doomscroll waaaay back through my feed, you'd see a lot of my original content came from shooting places where I'd camped. Particularly lellow tents in cool places in the mountains. I just loved the novelty... The contrast to life in comfort and the awe of the shit surrounding me. This took me right back... As the moon popped over this ridge, I was a kid in a bloody candy store 😍 Except the candy was unbridled froth for the outdoors, and the price was just our willingness to struggle for it. Cheers for the company @shaun.brown.bro @eazy_flies ❤️
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📸 Sony A7IV / 14mm F1.8
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19 Apr 2025
Nightmare On Wolf Street ranks as probably one of the higher acclaimed routes in the Rockies, and boyyyyyy did it deliver on that promise 🤘 Photos are a little garbage on account of trying to belay some precarious climbing that took Ed a couple of attempts to get clean. Red-pointing pitches on the Stanley Headwall isn't the typical style, but typical has never been my vibe anyway 🙃
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📷 Sony A7IV | Sony 14mm | f5 | 1/1250s | ISO1000
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#mixedclimbing #snow #winter #mountains #mountain #mountaineering #climbing #rockclimbing #climb #climber #hiking #climbinglife #sportclimbing #iceclimbing #canada #canadianrockies #rockymountains #rockies
09 Apr 2025
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