Adam made the 2nd ascent of Alexander Hubers Weisse Rose, 9a, at the Austrian Schleier Wasserfall. We made a short interview, with him about the send. ... full story
Festak - International Mountaineering Film Festival 2008
How was it?
The Grand prize of the 25th annual of International Mountaineering Film Festival (MHFF) was granted to Slovak film Neznama Antarktida (Unknown Antarctica) by Pavol Barabas about walk from borders of Antarctica to its highest point. The festival nicknamed Festak in Teplice nad Metuji (close to Adrspach sandstone towers, north east Bohemia, north of Czech Republic) finished today. ... full story
Ennstall, Austria - sport rock climbing just around the border
Some of the most popular areas visited frequently by Czech climbers are just across the border. One of them is Ennstal- close to Linz, Austria- which is well know mostly by climbers from Souther Bohemia. ... full story
Adam Ondra climbed multipitch WoGü 8c in Ratikon (SUI)
Adam Ondra climbed multipitch WoGü 8c in Ratikon, Switzerland, last weekend. The route by Beat Kammerlander from 1997 had originally suggested two pitches of 8c and Adam is prepared to confirm the global grade of entire route, Adams father wrote today on Czech version of CzechClimbing.com. ... full story
Barefoot Amongst Czechs is name of the article and short movie from the Czech sandstones area Adrspach from the American point of view. The report and video was published on the North Face blog. ... full story
The annual Petzl Roc Trip in Millau, France took place on June 25-30 2008 with the participation of invited Czech climbers Adam Ondra and Martin Stranik. ... full story
It was just a very unexpected opportunity: "Would you go with me to Cuba?" my friend Hop asked. There must be some climbing. So the aim was the limestone paradise of Vinales, but for some organizational reason we went via the snobby beach resort Varadero, and there we discovered bouldering potential. ... full story
The 2nd international climbing and mountaineering website meeting took place in Prague. The web masters discussed further development of the cooperation founded in 2007 in Volx, France and established a basis of the global network of climbing websites. ... full story
Ostrava Boulder Centrum 2008, the 1st round of Czech Cup in bouldering took place last weekend in Ostrava, (North east of Czech Republic), was organized together with Slovakian Cup and Slovaks defeated Czechs. ... full story
2nd Report Dima, Basque, Spain: Tomas Mrazek (CZE) and Muriel Sarkany won Master Dimarock, the main competition in climbing event in Dima, Basque Country, Spain last night. Chris Sharma (USA) and Natalija Gros (SLO) were 2nd, ... full story
Adam Ondra climbed Action Directe 11 UIAA in Frankenjura, Germany. He climbed the legendary route from Wolfgang Gullich on Monday 19th May. ... full story
IFSC European Youth Series (L) - Prague (CZE) 2008
finals
Adam Ondra (CZE) and Katharina Posch (AUT) won the youngest categories today in the finals of IFSC European Youth Series in lead climbing in Prague, Czech Republic. Mario Lechner (AUT) and Dinara Fakhritdinova (RUS) won the older categories. Jakob Schubert (AUT) and Mathilde Brumagne (BEL) won the oldest categories. ... full story
World Cup in bouldering in Salt Lake City: Adam Ondra won
Adam Ondra won today the World Cup competition in bouldering in Salt Lake City, USA. It is his 2nd victory in row. He did 4 tops as the only one in the finals. Mejdi Schalck (FRA) was the 2nd, Jakob Schubert (AUT) 3rd. ... full story
Barbora Bernardová won today her category on the Youth European Championship in lead climbing in Perm, Russia. From the Czech boys in the last part of the event Lukáš Mokroluský was the most succesfull with the 3rd place in lead climbing. According to the overall results Czech girl Markéta Janošová was 2nd in climbing combination. ... full story
Adam Ondra: video of projecting "the hardest 8B+ in the Galaxy"
Adam Ondra published new video from the attempts in a quarry in his hometown Brno-Maloměřice on boulder project, that could be "the hardest 8B+ in the Galaxy" according to Adam. ... full story
First ascent from North to Kangchung Shar (Himalayas)
Czech mountaineers Zdeněk "Háček" Hák and Jaroslav "Banán" Bánský climbed the first ascent from the North to the top of the six thousand metres mountain Kangchung Shar in Nepal. They finished the ascent via the south side of the mountain. This is the first traverse of the massive at all. ... full story
Adam Ondra and Stefano Ghisolfi: interview on Youtube
Adam Ondra and his friend Italian elite climber Stefano Ghisolfi talks about top climbing in one hour long interview, that Adam Ondra published on his YouTube channel. ... full story
Czech Lucie Hrozová announced her 2. boulder problem at 8B Fb grade. She did boulder Conquistador in Sklapsko area at South Moravia on East of Czechia), that was done by Czech girl Jana Vincourková last year. Lucie is the only 2nd Czech female who did this bouldering grade after the 1st Jana Vincourková. ... full story
Martin Stráník did the new boulder Black Panther 8C
Czech Martin Stráník announced the new FA of the boulder problem 8C in Vesec near Liberec, North Bohemia, NW Czechia. He named it Black Panther and considers it as the one of his proudest first ascents in Czechia. ... full story
Czech girl Aneta Loužecká was the 7th in the finals of the World Cup competition in lead ice climbing in Kirov, Russia. Daria Glotova and Nikolai Kuzovlev won (both from Russia). ... full story
Ice climbing ECH: Aneta Loužecká CZ 4th in speed, 6th in lead
Czech girl Aneta Loužecká as the only Czech representative was the 4th in speed and 6th in lead climbing on the ice climbing European Championship in Champagny-en-Vanoise, France. ... full story
Eliška Adamovská climbed her first 8c+. She did route Pal Norte in Margalef, Spain. It is the hardest route written by Czech female in the diary on Lezec.cz. The harder route 9a climbed only Gabriela Vrablíková in 2019, but she did not enter the climb to the DB. ... full story
The competition Dry Tool Cup Brno 2020 was held as the International Championship of Czechia and European Cup of lead ice climbing on Saturday near Brno, South Moravia, SE Czechia. The best Czech were Aneta Loužecká and Pavel Vrtík, who became the Czech Champions 2020. ... full story
Geyikbayiri is the largest sport climbing area in Turkey. The crag itself is situated 25 km from the busy tourist city of Antalya, with the only "tourists" being rock climbers! ... full story