Ice climbing in Lužicke hory (Luzicke Mountains), North Bohemia, location Klíč has been prohibitet. The local preserve officials decided about that. Insted of this place climbers can further continue in ice climbing in the wall of Břidličný vrch at area of Lužické Mountains.
Check out the video of a brave accent of a high ball in the new atractive granite bouldering area in Petrohrad (between Prague and Karlovy Vary - Karls Bad). German readers can may remember it from the Klettern magazine article from November 2005, where there is a large photo of Kometa in Brana.
At the this year first World Cup competition in ice difficulty climbing in Valle Daone (Italy) last weekend (22 January 2006) the Czech climbers ended: Standa Hovanec 26th, Jan Doudlebský 47th, Jiří Slabý 50th, Martin Louda 53th.
A snow avalanche killed a skier in Beskydy mountains (eastern Moravia, east part of Czech Republic) on Wednesday Jan 25. He and his coleague skied down out of the official skiing slope. The other guy escaped without any hit.
A World Cup Ice Climbing competition will take place on January 27/28 2006 in Northen Bohemia Tanvaldský Špičák ski resort in Jizerske mountains (Czech Republic). It will be 2nd year of the action named Tendon Icebreaker Ice World Cup.
Update by a new photo in the article
Ice is ready in one of the main Bohemian ice climbing area Oldřichov in Jizerske mountains (close to Liberec), according to the reader´s discussion (Forum) in Czech version on www.lezec.cz .
Lanex Cup, the series of kid´s climbing competitions, was renamed as Tendon Cup. It was in consequence of a new brand "Tendon" for ropes by Lanex manufacturer.