The Canadian film Asiemut about a bicycle tour across Asia won the main prize of the International Mountaineering Film Festival in Teplice nad Metují 2007 (North of Czech Republic) today.
Adam Ondra wins lead comp in Junior World Championship Ecuador
UPDATE +photos Adam Ondra (14) won the Junior World Championship in lead climbing in Ibarra, Ecuador, this weekend. Silva Rajfová finished 5th in her category, and Martin Stráník 6th in his.
Free climbing perhaps the hardest bigwall route in the South Hemisphere is the main task of the expedition Karambony 2007, which French web Kairn.com organized to Tsaranoro in Madagascar with the participation of Francois Legrand and other world-class climbers.
Tomas Mrazek did 8c+ PP and is back in the rock ranking
Top competion climber Tomas Mrazek reports several hard sends from his last trip to Southern France. He did one 8c+, four 8c's, and onsighed one 8b+. The sends from this trip lifted him back to 2nd position on the CzechClimbing.com ranking, just behind Adam Ondra.
Photos from Adam Ondra´s climb of multi-pitch Silbergeier 8b+
Look at a few photos of Adam Ondra in the mountain multi-pitch route Silbergeier 8b+, which he climbed besides the other extreme ascents two weeks ago during one day of the practising (look at the article from August 5th 2007).
Adam Ondra sends hard multi-pitch routes in the Alps
Besides Abysse, 9a (in the news from Friday) Adam Ondra has entered into his diary here on CzechClimbing.com recently climbs of hard multi-pitch routes in Alps: Silbergeier 8b+ and Zub za zub 8b+ in Rätikon, the Alps region in Switzerland and Austria.
Young Czech climber Adam Ondra (14) did on August 1st, 2007 the route Abysse 9a in French area Gorge du Loup on Wednesday. He did the masterpiece of French Alexandre Chabot in only three attempts .
Czech young climber Adam Ondra (14) has been nominated among candidates for the second edition of the Arco Rock Legends which will take place on 07/09/2007, on the eve of the XXI Rock Master at Arco (Garda Trentino, Italy).
It was at Weissenstein in Frankenjura when I met him for the first time.
When they came (Wolfgang and Kurt Albert) I was about to pull with help of one quickdraw to reach another one on Strohdach route (9-). Wolfgang was mildly smiling and said to Kurt. Aha neue still?
We have recently visited the grave of the biggest sport climber in the world to remember the 15th anniversary of his death.
This anniversary, which falls on the month and day of 31st of August is very important for the sport climbing world.
Despite that for most climbers life has moved on and it seems memories of the iconic climber are beginning to fade, we would like to pay homage to Wogü on this day.
(24. October 1960 – 31. August 1992)
Wolfgang was on the forefront of climbing difficulty, estabishing the hardest route in the world at four different times.
Climbing milestones:
1984 Kanal im Rücken (10 UIAA),
1985 Punks in the Gym (10+ UIAA)
1987 Wallstreet (11- UIAA).
Action Directe 11 (fr. 9a), which has become the benchmark for the grade, despite very few repeats.
“Wolfgang showed the way for the climbers in Frankenjura and for the rest of climbing world, not only with his climbing but with his attitude toward life. His loss for climbing is great, but for so many people the loss runs much deeper. The point of light that we have followed, whether we were aware of it or not, has been extinguished.“ Geoff Weigand, Climbing No. 135