Avalanche hazard of the 3rd grade (from the 5 grade international scale) is announced by Czech mountain rescue service in Jeseniky (Northern Moravia) and in some avalanche prone spots in Krkonoše.
Tomas Mrazek – the climber of 2004 on the Lezec.cz index
The climber of the year 2004, according to Lezec.cz ranking (the section Top Climb here in the left column on the CzechClimbing.com) is Tomas Mrazek. Coincidentally, he is also the climber of the year on the international site 8a.nu- which reflects the climbers hardest routes sent on rock.
"Hi, I send a Greetings from Thailand,"
Czech top climbing couple Tomáš Mrázek and Helena Lipenská wrote today in sms to CzechClimbing.com (Lezec.cz) and it´s readers .
From 8a.nu: Tomáš Mrázek has onsighted Jui Dum, 8b at Railay Beach. Tomáš who won the World Cup 2004 goes to #2 position in the 8a.nu ranking and strengthen his position as beeing climber of 2004!
Avalanche hazard of the 3rd grade (from the 5 grade international scale) is announced by Czech mountain rescue service in Jeseniky (Northern Moravia) and in some avalanche prone spots in Krkonoše.
Accident and similar situation in Slovakia:
On Tuesday Jan 4 2005 a Czech mountaineer died under an avalanche in the High Tatras, Slovakia. The avalanche hit two mountaineers, one of them fortunately escaped uninjured. The second one did not survive after 8 hours under snow. They went on the tourist track where the avalanche was not expected and they had their transceivers turned off in their bags. 3rd grade avalanche hazard was also announced in the High Tatras and the situation continues, the Slovak mountain rescue service reports www.hzs.sk.
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Three Italian mountaineers have climbed a magnificent new line and reached the top of Cerro Torre in Patagonia.
UK climbing.com has reported that Markus Bendler had accomplished a new 9a at Schleier Wasserfall!
