Petrohradske Padani international bouldering competition
This year´s annual of the international bouldering open air competition Petrohradske Padani in Petrohrad, western Bohemia, Czech Republic, takes place on 24th-26th April 2015.
Ivan Sifra, Czech mountaineering personality, who was active also internationally, from East Bohemian town Lanskroun, died on Tuesday January 6th suddenly on a heart attack in almost 60 years age.
Czech Radek Jaroš climbed K2 and has all 14 of 8000ms
Czech mountaineer Radek Jaroš climbed on Saturday July 27, 2014 on K2 (8 611 m). With this summit he has done all tops of Crown of Himalayas and is the 1st Czech and 15th person on the world who climbed all of 14 eightthousanders without oxygen concentrator.
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Legendary Czech sandstone climber Bohumil Sykora died
Legendary Czech sandstone climber Bohumil Sykora died last week on 24th June in age of 83 years.
He first climbed the brave hard trad routes on Czech sandstones in Adrspach and Teplice nad Metuji (North East Bohemia) in 50s and 60s.
Then he emigrated to Germany where he climbed with his son Milan Sykora. Milan performed elite climbing there. Especially he founded the route Action Direct, the first 9a and after attempreing to climbing he left it to Wolfgang Gulllich who did the first ascent.
Later Bohumil came back to Czech Republic to live in Adrspach area and presented the tradtion of the Czech clibming btw. by writing the book Piskari (Sandstone climbers) about history of this climbing tradition.