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.
Updated topo of the acscent Czech climbers Marek Holecek and Jan Kreisinger did new 2000 metres long route on NW face of Mount Meru (6310m) in difficulty 7a, M5, 80 degrees ice in Garhwal Himalaya, Uttar-Pradesh, India.
Vysoke napeti 8b+ in Adrspach area has another repetition
The legendary route Vysoke napeti (The High Tension) for 8b+ (Fr) in Teplicke skaly (Adrspach sandstone area, Czech Republic) had another PP repetition by Czech climber Lubos Mazl.
We have received a message from a photographer Bruno Karadza who is also behind the web www.penjanje.net that Tomas Mrazek and his girlfriend enjoyed their holiday in Croatia.
Two Czechs Václav Šatava and Dušan "Stoupa" Janák finalised the 17 years old project Fram on the south face of Marmolada, running between The Fish and Via Italia. They sent it in PP style on 11.-13.9.2006 and graded the pitches above the Fish Cave 8+, 10-, 9/9+, 9+ and 5 (UIAA).
According to the new Slovak website www.climb.sk other young Czech talents succeeded there as well: Monika Kuhn-Gaberová and Edita Vopatová (both 14-year-old girls) sent the very overhanging route Maňána 7c/c+. Look also at the entries in the CzechClimbing.com route data file Maňána 7c