 | Currently, the new version of Vietclimb.com, V3, is still in stages of on-line development. Be nice to the author who receives neither royalties nor Happy Endings, but has red eyes from staring at the screen. Although Vietclimb.com concentrates mainly on rock climbing in Vietnam, you can find, dear readers, information linking you to other crags in the region. Thus,... |
Vietclimb.com offers you, in French and in English : - All available information and a self-use guidebook for rock climbing in Vietnam including Deep Water Soloing, Cat Ba routes, Halong Bay routes, Ba Be, Quoc Oai, bouldering in Nha Trang and Dam Mon, Ninh Binh, Hanoi, etc. ; - A tiny book to learn Vietnamese (pdf file, “save link target as”) created by Nico, to help you make your acquaintance and interact with the population, and to avoid being caught in an ambush. Most importantly, you can learn all the parts of a motor bike engine in Vietnamese; - A forum to ask a silly question, post a smart reply, find a climbing partner and more if luck is on your side; - A video library with several hundred rock climbing videos classified by geographic area; - Some articles about Vietnamese daily life, administrative details, and some tips to give you the desire to learn more about Vietnam; - A lot of news, an updated blog, a comprehensive page of web links about Vietnam and rock climbing, a fresh band of Companieros, and much more; - A section “discovering North Vietnamese Mountains” on motorbike with a bunch of routes. In preparation: - A summarized Vietnamese translation focused on what is rock climbing, and a think tank/forum to talk about Vietnamese translations for technical rock climbing words which does not yet exist in Vietnamese; - Some exhaustive articles about rock climbing in Asia (so far Japan, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong) Dong Chi, VietClimb needs you to support our efforts to promote responsible rock climbing in Viet Nam! If you have any suggestions and comments, please do not hesitate to contact us. And if you can offer your time for translation (especially from French to English) we’ll buy you a beer when you next come by!!
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