Red Bull Bloc Buster: Elite climbers on natural rock sculptures
The world elite from bouldering, including the Austrian Kilian Fischhuber, Angela Eiter, Anna Stöhr and David Lama, are invited to the Red Bull Bloc Buster, world’s first inside-city bouldering event on natural rocks to be held on 1 September 2007 at the Austria Center Vienna (AUT).
Czech Cup competition and Czech Championship one week postponed
The competition of the Czech cup in lead climbing in Brno, on the indoor wall Rajce has been postponed from 24th November 2007 to 1st December 2007, the Czech Championship in lead and speed climbing was moved from 1st-2nd December 2007 to 8th-9th December 2007.
Edita Vopatova, who is 14 years old, is actual the leader of the women's ranking on CzechClimbing.com after her summer climbing trip where she did 2 x 8a PP (both on the 3rd try),
Adam Ondra and Tomas Mrazek recently added some hard sends to their diaries here on czechclimbing.com, which is nothing new. But non-czech readers may notice that they recorded them in the style of pink point (PP), prompting the question, 'What the hell is Pink Point?'
Alex Chabot climbs the new may be hardest route in Deverse
Last week, French climber Alex Chabot did what he thinks to be the hardest route of Deverse: "PuntX" (Gorges du Loup, France), service Kairn.com informs. So it should be at least 9a, if there are other routes of the 9a grade: Abysse or Kinematix.
The 24th annual International Mountaineering Film Festival (also known as Festak) is coming next week in Teplice nad Metuji (North-East Bohemia) on August 23-26 2007.
RHM: international meeting of climbing women in Czech sandstones
RHM 2007 - the internationationl meeting of woman mountaineers took place in Czech Republic sandstones in Tisa on July 21-29. From the foreign participants the white haired super veteran Angela Soper from UK attracted interests of the most of all,
Czech Mountaneer Dies on exp. to Gasherbrum with Czech minister
The cause of the death updated-Czech media reports that Czech mountaineer Jiri Danek died on Gasherbrum (8080 m) Karakoram, Pakistan during an expedition which included the Czech Deputy of Prime Minister and Environmental Minister Martin Bursik. The minister himself is said to be OK,
Red Bull Bloc Buster: Elite climbers on natural rock sculptures
Vienna 1 September 2007
The world elite from bouldering, including the Austrian Kilian Fischhuber, Angela Eiter, Anna Stöhr and David Lama, are invited to the Red Bull Bloc Buster, world’s first inside-city bouldering event on natural rocks to be held on 1 September 2007 at the Austria Center Vienna (AUT).
The natural rocks should be roughly six-metre-high pieces of rock from the Ukraine, Brazil, USA, Australia and Morocco, prepared by an artist.