...A dreadful accident happened about a week ago in Turkey with Zalia, a daughter of Salavat Rakhmetov, famous boulderingist, he won World Championship 2005 in Munich at the age of 38. ... full story
Our friend, reporter, and a master climber of Bohemian and Saxon sandstone Vlada Slouka died last week among his beloved sandstone towers. ... full story
The World Champion and the winner of the World Cup 04 in climbing Tomas Mrazek and his partner Helena Lipenska just have escaped from the lethal tsunami today in Thailand. ... full story
Many parts of High Tatra Mountains areas were declared natural disaster areas after a savage storm killed two people and left a trail of damage across the national Park. ... full story
Two Slovaks are among the 9 mountaineers murdered in Pakistan
Two Slovaks are reported among the 9 mountaineers murdered in Pakistan this weekend. According to the Czech and Slovak climbing community they should be: Anton Dobeš a Peter Šperka ... full story
Second wave of via ferrata set recalls within six months
Considerable deficiencies found in many via ferrata sets
A group of manufacturers issued last month a recall of certain via ferrata sets following a meeting of the UIAA (International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation) Safety Commission in Munich, Germany. A report was published on February 25th, 2013. ... full story
Dear valued users, customers and business partners, We, the Czech manufacturers of climbing equipment, feel it is important to issue the following joint statement after the tragic accident of August 5th, 2012, ... full story
The white powder magnesium come to the czech rock approximately 30 year ago. The young climbing audience had invited this new material with exciting. On the other hand the old sand climbers strictly refused to use this. ... full story
Banska Bystrica - A Czech tourist, who had been reported missing in the Low Tatra mountains in Slovakia since last Friday, was found dead in early afternoon hours on Monday, Milan Tatarka, from the local Mountain Rescue Service centre, has told CTK. ... full story
An avalanche killed a snowboarder in Jeseniky Mountains, CZ
A snowboarder died today because of snow avalanche in Jeseniky, the mountains in the east part of Czech Republic. He was multiple wounded and died during the transport to local hospital. ... full story
Accident in Australia on bolt failure done by CZs or Poles?
We got the news from Australia about a fatal climbing accident that happened in Blue Mountains, Australia. It was on route recently equipped by bolts which are dangerously used. Local climbers are thinking that the climbers who bolted the route may be from Poland or Czech Republic. ... full story
Vlado Plulik- climbing partner of Slovak Dodo Kopold- is missing from the last Thursday. Dodo Kopold who toped on Thursday Broad Peak (8047m), writes in mail published on his expedition site that Vlado Plulik probably fell down among glacier crevasses. ... full story
The safety commission of the Czech Mountaineering Union recently reported an incident which involved a falling climbers rope being cut completely over the edge of a well worn carabiner. ... full story
Slovak women mountaineer (47 year old) died on Saturday, Feb, 16, 2008 after she and her partner lost on the way to a mountain chalet in High Tatras, Slovakia. ... full story
Roman Brt, former member of Czech national climbing team, died
Roman Brt, the author of a lot of top level Czech traditional sandstones routes and ex member of the Czech national climbing team, died on Sunday November 4th, 2007. ... full story