Premiere of film Piskari (Sandmen), bigwall expert from Calalunia Sílvia Vidal and more of climbing movies, guests and actions is scheduled on this year Festak, that is the 29th International Mountaineering Film Festival (MHFF- nicknamed Festak), that begins next Thursday.
EYC in Pieve (ITA): Czech got gold, silver and bronze
Czechs young climbers Veronika Scheuerova, Jan Kriz, Jan Dosedel and Miroslav Dosedel got 2 golden, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals on the European Youth Cup EYC in Pieve (ITA) in speed climbing last weekend.
Jorg Verhoeven (NED) and Momoka Oda (JAP) won World Cup in lead climbing in Imst, Austria) this weekend. From the Czechs the best was Tereza Svobodova on 32nd position among women.
Czech Mrs. mountaineer Zuzana Hofmanova died on Broad Peak
Zuzana Hofmannova, one of the Czech best woman mountaineers died on July 31st, 2012 when she did not come back from the summit of Broad Peak, her 4th 8000 meters high mountain. The sad news was published on the expedition site:
Czech mountaineer and politician (Member of Czech Parliament and ex mayor of Prague) Pavel Bém with Slovak mountaineer Peter Hámor reached the summit of K2 (8 611 m) in Karakoram on August 1st 2012.
The best Czech climber Adam Ondra escaped this summer Dipsy to Norway and according to his climbs it looks like the temperature there is very good for hard climbing.
The organizers of the Festival of Alpinismus in Prague in November 2012 announced that the mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner is the most probably expected among the main guests.
Spanish bigwall lady Sílvia Vidal will be the guest of Fesťak The 29th International Mountaineering Film Festival (MHFF- nicknamed Festak) in Teplice nad Metuji (Adrspach Rocks, Northeast Bohemia, CZ), takes place on August 23-26, 2012. One of the main guests is the spanish bigwall lady climber from Spain Sílvia Vidal.
Invitation for the another annual of the International bouldering competition came from our friend from Hungary. The competition for kids and adults takes place on June 23/24th 2012 in town Zsombó, near city Szeged, southern Hungary, close to Romanian and Serbian border
Premiere of film Piskari (Sandmen), bigwall expert from Calalunia Sílvia Vidal and more of climbing movies, guests and actions is scheduled on this year Festak, that is the 29th International Mountaineering Film Festival (MHFF- nicknamed Festak), that begins next Thursday.
Trailer of the film Piskari :
Besides the film Piskari - about 40 years of trad climbing in Czech sandstones - there are other climbing films on the schedule.
About the mountaineering and getting old is Polish film Deklaracja nieśmiertelności (Declaration of Immortality).
Trailer:
The Fastest Man on the Mountain is the name of the Swiss film with Ueli Steck solos speed climb in Alps, Yosemites and Himalayas.
The movie:
EC Rocktrip 2011 is report from the Czecch local climbing and bouldering competition on the Czech local rock. Trailer:
Grand Libre au grand Cap (High Difficulties at Grand Capucin) about Arnaud Petit and Stéphanie Bodet tries free climb rout on Grand Capucin that is 450 m long and 8b.
Bask climber Iker Pou is the star of the film Iker Pou – Nit de Bruixes. He climbs route for 9a+ in Margalef, v in Catalunia. The film:
Iker Pou figures in the another film that names Pou Brothers: Pan Aroma Expedition about ascent of the route Pan Aroma, in Italian Alps (8c/500m) on Cima Ovest, Tre Cime di Lavaredo.
Magic Bean - is the film about Arnaud Petit trad climbs 70 m long route Black Bean 8b in Ceüse, France. The film:
The Czech film Skalni muz (The Rock Man) about the specific climbing marathon in Czech Sandstones. The film is here:
The next film should by attractive for boulderers. Beal Petrohradské Padání (Beal Petrohrad Falling 2012) about the internation natural rocks bouldering competition in West Bohemia by the winner of the last year poll on our site CzechClimbing.com Ondrej Smrz.
Ondrej Smrz has on Festak the 2nd film Sherpa Soda 2, this one should be some kind of Czech fun:
CzechClimbing.com/Lezec.cz as media partner of Festival, has again opportunity to grant an award to the film that our readers most like: Award of the website CzechClimbing.com/Lezec.cz. The poll would be open on the start of Festival on the homepage here.
The guest Sílvia Vidal has slideshow „Alone on the Wall“ on Saturday 25.8. at 18.00 in the festival cinema. About Silvia viz:
Festak 2012: Sílvia Vidal etc...
There would be Czech Championship in bouldering on the bypass program too.
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Premiere of film Piskari (Sandmen), bigwall expert from Calalunia Sílvia Vidal and more of climbing movies, guests and actions is scheduled on this year Festak, that is the 29th International Mountaineering Film Festival (MHFF- nicknamed Festak), that begins next Thursday.
Jorg Verhoeven (NED) and Momoka Oda (JAP) won World Cup in lead climbing in Imst, Austria) this weekend. From the Czechs the best was Tereza Svobodova on 32nd position among women.
Zuzana Hofmannova, one of the Czech best woman mountaineers died on July 31st, 2012 when she did not come back from the summit of Broad Peak, her 4th 8000 meters high mountain. The sad news was published on the expedition site: 
Czech mountaineer and politician (Member of Czech Parliament and ex mayor of Prague) Pavel Bém with Slovak mountaineer Peter Hámor reached the summit of K2 (8 611 m) in Karakoram on August 1st 2012.
The best Czech climber Adam Ondra escaped this summer Dipsy to Norway and according to his climbs it looks like the temperature there is very good for hard climbing.
The organizers of the Festival of Alpinismus in Prague in November 2012 announced that the mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner is the most probably expected among the main guests.
The 29th International Mountaineering Film Festival (MHFF- nicknamed Festak) in Teplice nad Metuji (Adrspach Rocks, Northeast Bohemia, CZ), takes place on August 23-26, 2012. One of the main guests is the spanish bigwall lady climber from Spain Sílvia Vidal.
Invitation for the another annual of the International bouldering competition came from our friend from Hungary. The competition for kids and adults takes place on June 23/24th 2012 in town Zsombó, near city Szeged, southern Hungary, close to Romanian and Serbian border
This year a small groupe of firends met in the heart of Frankenjura in Betzenstein.
