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
Russian mountain.ru protests against Russian aggression in Ukrai
The Russian mountaineering server mountain.ru has published a call to end military operations in Ukraine, stating that it is a disgrace to Russia and its citizens for several generations.
It takes a great deal of courage to write such a statement in present-day Russia and attach your signature to it. There are 234 names under the call so far. ... full story
Adam Ondra: let us help the Ukrainian people suffering from war
Adam Ondra published a call to support the People in Need organization, which can quickly help the Ukrainian people suffering from the war. He wrote on social networks: ... full story
Aneta Loužecká: 3rd in speed and 5th in lead at WCH of N.America
Ice Climbing
Aneta Loužecká succeeded at the North American Ice Climbing Championships this weekend in Ouray, Colorado. She was 3rd in speed and 5th in difficulty, she said on Facebook. ... full story
Czech championship and European Cup in ice climbing
DryToolCup Brno 2021, ie the international Czech championship in ice climbing on lead and at the same time the 3rd race of the European Cup in ice climbing 2021/2022 was won yesterday by Tyler Kempney from the USA and Finn Enni Bertling. The best of ours was Aneta Loužecká 4th. ... full story
Zdeněk Hák and Jakub Kácha climbed the west wall to Ama Dablam
Czechs Zdeněk Háček Hák and Jakub Kácha climbed the direttissima west wall of Ama Dablam (6812 m). Yesterday they descended to the second altitude camp of the normal route and today to the base camp. They climbed a direttissima west wall called American Direct, which was first climbed in 1990, as specified by Háček's sponsor Climbing Technology CZ this afternoon. ... full story
Adam Ondra and Eliška Adamovská won the Czech Republic lead climbing championship in Brno today. The second were Martin Stráník and Michaela Smetanová, the third Šimon Potůček and Nikola Králíková. ... full story
Rishat Khaibullin and Tereza Cibulková won the Czech Republic Speed Climbing Championships in Brno yesterday. Kazakh Rishat Khaibullin set a time of 5,682 seconds in qualifying, which is only a few tenths of the world record (it is 5,208 s and is held by Indonesian Veddriq Leonardo from this year's World Cup in Salt Lake City). ... full story
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic:
Czech climbers stranded in Pakistan are returning home
The two Czech climbers Jakub Vlček and Petr Macek, who got stuck in Pakistan after climbing Rakaposhi and the subsequent action to save them, "are returning home after difficult negotiations", Czech Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhánek said on Twitter a moment ago.
"I would also like to thank the Pakistani side for its helpfulness and at the same time emphasize that everyone abroad is responsible for its actions," wrote Min ... full story
Adam Ondra and Eliška Adamovská won today the Czech Bouldering Championship in Slaný. The second were Martin Stráník and Michaela Smetanová, the third Štěpán Volf and Markéta Janošová.
Adam Ondra and Eliška Adamovská were the only ones to give all four tops in the finals. ... full story
Martin Stráník in difficulty 4th, Eliška Adamovská is 9th
Martin Stráník finished tonight at the 4th place in the finals of lead climbing on the World Climbing Championships in Moscow. Eliška Adamovská finished 9th in the semifinals. Austrian Jakob Schubert and South Korean Seo Chaehyun won. In second place were Slovenian Luka Potocar and American Natalia Grossman, in 3rd place were British Hamish McArthur and Italian Laura Rogora. ... full story
Ascent to Rakaposhi (7788 m) by a Czech-Pakistani expedition
The Czech-Pakistani expedition on Facebook informed about the successful ascent to the Pakistani mountain Rakaposhi (7788 m), which has an extraordinary elevation of about 6,000 meters from the foot to the top. ... full story
International Mountaineering Film Festival in Teplice nad Metují
results of the film competition 2021
Slovak film Unwanted self-portrait (Nechcený autoportrét) by Rasťo Hatiar yesterday received the Grand Prix of the film competition of this year's International Mountaineering Film Festival in Teplice nad Metují, Czech Republic. ... full story
Adam Ondra won the Boulder KO at the legendary Arco Rock Master competition today, Martin Stráník was in boulder 2nd. Italian Laura Rogora won the women's boulder, Eliška Adamovská finished in 8th place. In the evening, the following lead duel was won by Italian Stefano Ghisolfi and Slovenian Mia Krampl. Adam Ondra was 3rd in the duel, but still 1st overall. ... full story
Markéta Janošová was the best of Czechs at the European Bouldering Cup in Krakow, Poland today. She finished in 8th place in the semifinals. Šimon Potůček finished in the semifinals the 19th. Our others did not advance from the qualification. German Anna Lechner and Frenchman Mathieu Ternant won. ... full story