Earlier this month the RRGCC (Red River Gorge Climber's Coalition) and Petzl joined forces to organize what was one of the largest outdoor climbing events since Konstein. Huh? ... full story
Maybe you think that Pilates is for joga-mat-carrying, twenty-something single girls who eat granola in the morning and not much else the rest of the day. But Pilates is also a great way to get in shape for climbing. ... full story
Rost'a recently wrote in his diary here on lezec.cz the FA of what is to be the hardest boulder in CZ- Posledni Mazoret, which he graded as 8C. Rost'a is currently ranked number one on both our site and 8a.nu for bouldering. ... full story
Prague Mayor Bem released his film from his ascent on Everest
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UPDATE: The full version of the film released Prague Mayor Pavel Bem presented his own movie from his ascent to Mount Everest. The trailer from the film which was this week presented in festival Tourfilm in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad, Czech Republic) was published by the Czech general news portal iDNES. ... full story
This year the World Championship in climbing after moving from Marbela has moved to the other end of Spain to Avilés. After our Sunday's arrival we attended the opening ceremonial, which was a bit boring. Already the following day there were three qualification routes in lead climbing awaited for us. ... full story
Martin Stranik 2nd in boulders, Tomas Mrazek 3rd in lead
Info from World Championship in climbing, Avilés (ESP) 2007: Czech Martin Stranik was 2nd in bouldering tonight! Dmitry Sharafutdinov (RUS) and Anna Stohr (AUT) win. ... full story
Rock Master: Tomas Mrazek 3rd, and 1st in after Duel
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The news from Rock Master: Ramon Julian Puigblanque (ESP) and Angela Eiter (AUT) win, Tomas Mrazek (CZE) was 3rd. But Tomas Mrazek won the after competition Duel. Silva Rajfová was in bouldering 5th, same as Libor Hroza who finished in speed on 5th place. UPDATE +Legends... full story
Czech climber Honza Riha is probably the second blind person to climb El Capitan in Yosemite, California via the Nose (V 5.9 C2, or 5.13+ free). ... full story
The Canadian film Asiemut about a bicycle tour across Asia won the main prize of the International Mountaineering Film Festival in Teplice nad Metují 2007 (North of Czech Republic) today. ... full story
Adam Ondra wins lead comp in Junior World Championship Ecuador
UPDATE +photos Adam Ondra (14) won the Junior World Championship in lead climbing in Ibarra, Ecuador, this weekend. Silva Rajfová finished 5th in her category, and Martin Stráník 6th in his. ... full story
Free climbing perhaps the hardest bigwall route in the South Hemisphere is the main task of the expedition Karambony 2007, which French web Kairn.com organized to Tsaranoro in Madagascar with the participation of Francois Legrand and other world-class climbers. ... full story
Nanga Parbat Czech Expeditionpl plans 1st ascent via Mummery Rib
Nanga Parbat Czech Expedition 2018 prepares on this summer an attempt of the parallel ascent via Diamir wall of Nanga Parbatu with two teams on two different lines: via Kinshofer and first ascent via Mummery Rib. ... full story
Czech Marek Holecek goes to try 1stascent to Kyazo Ri (6186m)
Czech mountaineer Marek Holeček is going this weekend to Nepal to try to finish the first ascent on mountain Kyazo Ri (6186m). He will go there with Zdeněk Hák who will accompany him in Nepal in a month. Marek said it in an interview on web site Lidovky.cz ... full story
Adam Ondra did yesterday in Saint Leger du Ventouxin France the route Super Crackinette 9a+ flash, that is the 1st climb of any route in this difficulty on the 1st attempt in history of climbing. ... full story
Adam Ondra the 2nd man of the Czech Athlete of the year 2017
Adam Ondra was the 2nd among men and 7th overall in the prestige poll the Czech Athlete of the year 2017 elected by the Czech mainstream sport journalists. ... full story
Czech Championship in lead climbing in Prague 2017
Adam Ondra and Iva Vejmolová won Czech Championship in lead climbing in Prague today. Jakub Konečný and Eliška Adamovská were 2nd, Rishat Khaibullin (KAZ) and Eliška Novotná 3rd. ... full story
World Cup speed and lead climbing competition Edinburgh UK 2017
Czech climber Jan Kříž finished on the 9th place on the the World Cup speed climbing competition in Edinburgh, UK. There were Czech climbers participating in lead climbing competition too, who finished: Tomáš Binter 49th and Jakub Dvořák 50th. ... full story
Adam Ondra announced success in Project Hard 9c in Flatanger, Norway, in short video without explanation, but with an eloquent smile: "I'm just really, really happy."
The Adam's team confirmed the news about successful ascent of the route: ... full story
Results of the 34th International mountaineering film festival
Winners of the 34th International Mountaineering Film Festival in Teplice nad Metuji (Adrspach), Nord East Bohemia, Czech Republic. The Grand Prize was given to INTO TWIN GALAXIES – A GREENLAND EPIC, Germany, Austria about kayaking in Greenland. ... full story
Martin Stráník finished today on 15th place on semi-finales / finals of European Championship in bouldering in Munich, Germany that took place there as a part of the World Cup competiton in bouldering. ... full story
Czech mountaineers Marek Holeček and Zdeněk Hák climbed in alpin style first ascent of South West Face on Gasherbrum I (8068 m). They informed about it on Instagram and on sites of their Czech sponsors. ... full story
Adam Ondra was the 2nd on the European Championship in lead climbing in Campitello di Fassa, Italy. The Czech woman Iva Vejmolová finished in the semi-finals on 24th place. Czech Libor Hroza finished on 16th place in speed climbing. ... full story