An avalanche in Italy slightly injured a Czech skier
An avalanche in Italien Alps slightly injured a Czech skier. The snow fall hit the participants of the ski competition close to French border. It injured seven people all together.
The invitation for the 1st round of Hungarian Cup in lead climbing of kids and youth came from our friend from Hungary. It takes place on March 4/5 2006 in Budapest.
The bouldering competitions starts - The Prague Boulder Bar ends
This weekend Feb 25th 2006 the first competition in bouldering listed in Czech ranking starts. The competition takes place in Prague Boulder Bar and is the last action there because the famous Boulder Bar gym is going to close down to clear the spot for some new luxury hotel.
UIAA released new rules for the World Cup competitions. Among the most important things are changes to three rounds insted of two in bouldering competitions. And that every kid who will be 16 years old during the year can start, that can mean that Austrian wonder boy David Lama who will be 16 in August can match with the world elite in lead climbing from the begining of the year.
The 3rd World Cup competition 2006 in ice difficulty and speed climbing was in Busteni, Romania last weekend 10/11 Feb 2006. There have been no Czech participators. The results of the bests:
An avalanche in Italy slightly injured a Czech skier
An avalanche in Italien Alps slightly injured a Czech skier. The snow fall hit the participants of the ski competition close to French border. It injured seven people all together.
Czech news site iDNES reported:
http://zpravy.idnes.cz/zahranicni.asp?r=zahranicni&c=A060303_192421_zahranicni_dp
The avalanche fall at pista Artesina Rocca Giardina in north west Italy in province Cuneo.
The World Championship in ski mountaineering takes place there and according to the Czech mountaineering union web site "today an avalanche fell down in area where the competition of the World Championship in ski mountaineering took place. All members of the Czech team are OK."
Update:
From the participant of the World Championship Štěpán Pleskač:
During the competition a smaller avalanche fell on to the head part of the competiton row of juniors and it buried about 30 people. The avalanche was about 150 metres long and it was created by blown snow at the spot where nobody expected it.
Almost all of them helped themselves. The organizers immediately stoped the race and started to rescue. Four Czechs were among hit people, all of them helped themselves. One of them Radoslav Groh was a minor injured at his knee and at hospital he was a bit sewed.
There were more injured people from other teams.
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An avalanche in Italien Alps slightly injured a Czech skier. The snow fall hit the participants of the ski competition close to French border. It injured seven people all together.
The 1st international contest of bouldering
Dear funs of natural bouldering. This year Petrohradské PADání (Petrohrad Falling) is scheduled on Saturday May 27 2006.
The 3rd World Cup competition 2006 in ice difficulty and speed climbing was in Busteni, Romania last weekend 10/11 Feb 2006. There have been no Czech participators. The results of the bests:
