A rather bold statement, no? While I am by no means an encyclopedia of American climbing, I have been around the block a few times. And the Red River Gorge is the nicest house on Sport Climbing Street, believe that. While other areas, such as Smith Rock, may have more historical value, no single area in the US offers as much variety as well as quality as the Red. Don't believe me? There is only one way to find out...
UPDATED by story and photos+video Adam Ondra (13-years-old, CZ) climbed the route Martin Krpan 9a in Osp, Slovenia, this Saturday November 11. Brano from Slovak web climb.sk posted the info to CzechClimbing.com.
A week ago we returned from the succesful expedition Madagascar 2006. Tomáš Sobotka and Ondra Beneš (D.Žleb Company, Czech Republic), and then two Austrians: Harald Berger and Florian Scheimpflug participated.
Andreas Bindhammer, who did a week ago the first repetition of the route Abysse 9a (set by Alex Chabot), thinks it should be 9a/a+, because during the attempting he broke two important footholds.
Tomáš Mrázek finished 5th in the finals of the World Cup competition in bouldering today in Moscow. Tomáš Mrázek finished in bouldering World Cup 2006 overall on the 6th position. He the 1st in combination of lead and bouldering.
UIAA Climbing Council released provisional competition calendar
UIAA Climbing - International Council for Competition Climbing (former name UIAA ICC) has released the provisional competition calendar 2007 and confirmed terms of the competitions of the World Cup in Prague and Brno (Czech Republic).
Dimarockmaster is competition in masters category for elite invited climbers and we could not have missed that even though we had been quite exhausted after all the events we had taken part in last year.
Provisional ICC calendar: lead in Prague, bouldering in Brno
According to unofficial provisional ICC calendar for competiton climbing in 2007 there should be the World Cup competition in lead climbing in Prague on May 26/27 2007 and the World Cup in bouldering in Brno (east side of Czech Republic) on November 9/10 2007. The World Championship in Marbela (ESP) should take place on September 17-23 2007.
Overall World Cup 2006 in lead climbing results: 1st
Patxi Usobiaga (ESP), 2nd David Lama (AUT), 3rd Tomás Mrázek (CZE) and Flavio Crespi (ITA). Women: 1st Angela Eiter (AUT), 2nd Sandrine Levet (FRA), 3rd Charlotte Durif (FRA).
The Combined Word Cup Ranking 2006 (Bouldering and Lead): 1st Tomás Mrázek (CZE), 2nd David Lama (AUT), 3rd Jorg Verhoeven (NED). Women 1st Angela Eiter (AUT), 2nd Natalija Gros (SLO), 3rd Maja Vidmar (SLO).
The news from Saturday 18th November:
World Cup competition in lead climbing Kranj, Slovenia - the Czech team: Martin Stráník 11th, Tomáš Mrázek 13th, Silva Rajfová 21st. Patxi Usobiaga (ESP) has already won the overall World Cup 2006.
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UPDATE +video Kranj, Slovenia, finals results: 1st David Lama (AUT) , 2nd Cedric Lachat (SUI), 3rd Jorg Verhoeven (NED).
UPDATED by story and photos+video Adam Ondra (13-years-old, CZ) climbed the route Martin Krpan 9a in Osp, Slovenia, this Saturday November 11. Brano from Slovak web climb.sk posted the info to CzechClimbing.com.
A week ago we returned from the succesful expedition Madagascar 2006. Tomáš Sobotka and Ondra Beneš (D.Žleb Company, Czech Republic), and then two Austrians: Harald Berger and Florian Scheimpflug participated.
Andreas Bindhammer, who did a week ago the first repetition of the route Abysse 9a (set by Alex Chabot), thinks it should be 9a/a+, because during the attempting he broke two important footholds. 
Tomáš Mrázek finished 5th in the finals of the World Cup competition in bouldering today in Moscow. Tomáš Mrázek finished in bouldering World Cup 2006 overall on the 6th position. He the 1st in combination of lead and bouldering. 
Adam Ondra (13-years-old) climbed Strelovod, 8c, in Mišja peč- Osp, Slovenia.
UIAA Climbing - International Council for Competition Climbing (former name UIAA ICC) has released the provisional competition calendar 2007 and confirmed terms of the competitions of the World Cup in Prague and Brno (Czech Republic). 
Dimarockmaster is competition in masters category for elite invited climbers and we could not have missed that even though we had been quite exhausted after all the events we had taken part in last year.
According to unofficial provisional ICC calendar for competiton climbing in 2007 there should be the World Cup competition in lead climbing in Prague on May 26/27 2007 and the World Cup in bouldering in Brno (east side of Czech Republic) on November 9/10 2007. The World Championship in Marbela (ESP) should take place on September 17-23 2007.
Download video (12 MB, 20 min) - Video from the World Cup in Kranj 2006
