The new Czech route, City of Gods in Brazil has been unbolted
The new route City of Gods 8a+, that two Czech climbers- Tomas Sobotka and Jiri Lautner- put up in January 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Mount Pao de Azúcar (Sugar Loaf) has been unbolted.
The Czech sport climbing commission has released the provisional calendar of Czech Cup competitions including the Czech Chamionships in bouldering, lead and speed climbing.
Martin Stráník has sent two 8c in Osp. Both routes are situated in Misja Pec, Slovenia and he did both "Vizija" and "Strelovod" quite quickly (the third respective fourth go). On top of it he did in second try the route Marjetica, 8b+. Impressive.
Silva Rajfova (CZ) 3rd on Slovak Cup in bouldering
Silva Rajfova from Brno, Czech Republic, finished on the 3rd place on the competition of the Slovak Cup named ClimbingStar, that took place on the last Saturday (February 10 2007) in Bratislava.
UPDATE photos Czech climber Jiri Pelikan was 18th in overall World Cup ranking after at the 3rd competition of the World Cup 2007 in ice climbing in Busteni, Romania, that took place on Friday and Saturday February 9-10 2007.
Bouldering competition 2. Ostbayerische Bouldercup 2007, organized as the meeting of climbers from Czech Republic and Bavaria takes place on Saturday March 3rd 2007 in town Bleibach, Bavaria, Germany.
The new Czech route, City of Gods in Brazil has been unbolted
The new route City of Gods 8a+, that two Czech climbers- Tomas Sobotka and Jiri Lautner- put up in January 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Mount Pao de Azúcar (Sugar Loaf) has been unbolted.
Cedric Larcher from Kairn.com, which is published from Argentina, wrote me the news. According to his information it is forbidden to bolt any route in this zone for ecological reasons.
This new route led to a real problem in Rio, and the local federation nearly decided to unbolt all the routes of this sector, he wrote.
Tomas Sobotka wrote me last week about the decission to chop the route: "Before we began the route, we asked several times and the only limitation we were given was the prohibiton of power drills and doing the routes on east and south face, which was under the surface of cactuses. Three weeks and plenty of climbers saw us there, and nobody had a problem. A week before our departure the local guides started to say that they don't want the new route there, to not begin some boom of new routes on the Sugarloaf. We do not believe it would happen, because locals are not able to set up new bolts even on small cliffs, so they climb toprope. We argree to the removal of the bolt hangers, so the bolts will still be at interested climbers´ disposal and climbers will have to screw them during the ascent. But according to what I have seen, nobody will climb it. But it's not important, we are glad we climbed it, and they can do whatever they want. After we climbed it someone had already stolen from the belay stations even old slings, I think someone will stole also the bolts."