Earlier this month the RRGCC (Red River Gorge Climber's Coalition) and Petzl joined forces to organize what was one of the largest outdoor climbing events since Konstein. Huh?
Maybe you think that Pilates is for joga-mat-carrying, twenty-something single girls who eat granola in the morning and not much else the rest of the day. But Pilates is also a great way to get in shape for climbing.
Rost'a recently wrote in his diary here on lezec.cz the FA of what is to be the hardest boulder in CZ- Posledni Mazoret, which he graded as 8C. Rost'a is currently ranked number one on both our site and 8a.nu for bouldering.
Prague Mayor Bem released his film from his ascent on Everest
UPDATE: The full version of the film released Prague Mayor Pavel Bem presented his own movie from his ascent to Mount Everest. The trailer from the film which was this week presented in festival Tourfilm in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad, Czech Republic) was published by the Czech general news portal iDNES.
This year the World Championship in climbing after moving from Marbela has moved to the other end of Spain to Avilés. After our Sunday's arrival we attended the opening ceremonial, which was a bit boring. Already the following day there were three qualification routes in lead climbing awaited for us.
Info from World Championship in climbing, Avilés (ESP) 2007: Czech Martin Stranik was 2nd in bouldering tonight! Dmitry Sharafutdinov (RUS) and Anna Stohr (AUT) win.
Rock Master: Tomas Mrazek 3rd, and 1st in after Duel
The news from Rock Master: Ramon Julian Puigblanque (ESP) and Angela Eiter (AUT) win, Tomas Mrazek (CZE) was 3rd. But Tomas Mrazek won the after competition Duel. Silva Rajfová was in bouldering 5th, same as Libor Hroza who finished in speed on 5th place. UPDATE +Legends
Earlier this month the RRGCC (Red River Gorge Climber's Coalition) and Petzl joined forces to organize what was one of the largest outdoor climbing events since Konstein. Huh?
Yeah, that's right, I said it- Konstein. Most of you will not remember the event where the American climber John Bachar wowed Europeans by soloing their projects...
Emily Harrington on No Redemption, 8a/8a+
photo by Pete McDermott
Said Belhaj: master of rock, purveyor of Funk
photo by Pete McDermott
Anyways, the Rocktoberfest featured some of the best North American and European climbers working together to crack the enigma of some of the long standing projects in the Red...and party. About 1200 people attended the event's main party, and from the looks of things it could only had been funner if Edu himself were there.
This Kentuco-european dance party lasted longer and rocked harder than the Wiemar Republic
photo by Pete McDermott
Sean McColl on the FA of MILF Money, 8a+
photo by Pete McDermott
The event raised over $32,000 dollars towards the mortgage payment for the Murry-Pendergrass Preserve, a tract of land purchased by the RRGCC that contains about 40% of the climbing in the Red, with potential for more.
Daniel Woods getting diggy down down on the infamous Dogleg, 7b.
photo by Pete McDermott
'Now I gets back the very next week/ only to learn the trick was turned like a Technique/ twelve hun'ed- last thing in the world that I wanted/ was my girl going out every night gettin blunted...'
photo by Pete McDermott
Special thanks to Pete McDermott for being so beautiful that the author dreams about him at night, a cowboy silhouette in the light of a Miggie's campfire. And also for the pics.
The Compound: Miguel's Pizza as seen from the god like perch on the bumper of Pete's truck, god is that thing big. that's what all the girls say.