The mayor of the City of Prague, Pavel Bem, is doing acclimatisation trips in Himalayas on the beginning of the the attempt to climb to Mount Everest. ... full story
Czech Libor Hroza wins speed on Shenzen Masters in China
Alex Chabot wins the lead
UPDATE: Czech climber Libor Hroza (Mammut) won the speed climbing competition in Shenzen, China. Among women Cheng Lai-Sho won. We have learnt it from Libor Hroza who arrived from China today afternoon. ... full story
Tomas Mrazek (CZE) was 3rd today on European Championship in bouldering in Birmingham, UK. Silva Rajfova (CZE) finished 8th.
The podium results:
Men:
1 David Lama (AUT)
2 Nalle Hukkataival (FIN)
3 Tomas Mrazek (CZE)
Women:
1 Juliette Danion (FRA)
2 Olga Shalagina (UKR)
3 Olga Bezhko (UKR)
8. Silvie Rajfova (CZE) ... full story
A pair of Czech climbers Tomas Sobotka and Jiri Lautner set out to make the first ascent on Pao de Azúcar (Pão de Açúcar - Sugar Loaf) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the end of the January 2007. ... full story
It all started on Thursday, January 25. My dad came home from work and asked me: „Don´t you want to go with the Ondras´ to Spain? Eva wrote me, and she has space. ... full story
Czech climbers Marek Holecek and Jan Kreisinger got an "Honourable mention" for their first ascent of the Meru Central in Garhwal Himalaya, India by the American magazine Climbing in its Golden Piton awards celebration. ... full story
Serkan Ercan (Seko) (25) is the best male climber in Turkey, having sent many routes 8a and harder including the hardest route in Turkey 8c+. ... full story
While on expedition in Patagonia in March of 2005, Dean Potter and Thomas Huber thought out bold plan: To climb the north faces of Cima Picolla, Cima Grande and Cima Ovest in one day. The key to the plan's success was to figure out the fastest descent. ... full story
As the tempatures drop and the days grow shorter, our vision is lowered from the lofty heights to the easily accesable boulders close by. Long forgotten are long approches, hard clips, the idea of the redpoint crux, saving some for the top- all the mental trappings of route climbing. Instead we are captivated by simple movement over stone: hard moves, absurd holds, the fluttering heart of a highball...
Czech boy wonder, Adam Ondra (13 years old), was granted The Ascent of the Year 2006 by The Czech Mountaineering Union for his ascent of Martin Krpan 9a, PP, in Osp, Slovenia. He also got extraordinary appreciation in 2006 for the large number of ascents of extreme difficulty, "in the case of 13-years-old climber it is the world unique performance". ... full story
We have visited this beautiful spot several times within the years of 2004 and 2006. This area touched my feelings deeply therefore I would like to introduce it to the audience. ... full story
13 years old Adam Ondra is the best climber of Czech Republic in the rock climbing rankings and he is one of the best climbers world wide at all. So we had to ask Adam for a Christmas mini interview at least. ... full story
The organizers of the Festival of Alpinismus in Prague in November 2012 announced that the mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner is the most probably expected among the main guests. ... full story
Spanish bigwall lady Sílvia Vidal will be the guest of Fesťak
The 29th International Mountaineering Film Festival (MHFF- nicknamed Festak) in Teplice nad Metuji (Adrspach Rocks, Northeast Bohemia, CZ), takes place on August 23-26, 2012. One of the main guests is the spanish bigwall lady climber from Spain Sílvia Vidal. ... full story
Invitation for the another annual of the International bouldering competition came from our friend from Hungary. The competition for kids and adults takes place on June 23/24th 2012 in town Zsombó, near city Szeged, southern Hungary, close to Romanian and Serbian border ... full story
Highline Workshop 2012
Do you like slackline? Do you want to improve your skills, to get further, higher? You have a great opportunity to learn everything about the highline at Highline Workshop 2012.
On weekend 9th – 10th June 2012 there will 2nd Highline Workshop intended for public to learn how to prepare and walk on a highline. ... full story
We start the series of articles for you who are just may be only dreaming about climbing or mountaineering or you are new beginner or perhaps you are looking for moving to higher level of the skills. ... 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
The second weekend World Cup ice climbing was held in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Czech girl Lucie Hrozová ended up in difficulty 4th, Czech Mira Matejec among men was 19th, Angelika Rainer and Maxim Tomilov won. ... full story
Dani Andrada and film from the Czech Cup in bouldering
at the Climbing Film Festival 2011
Look at the video from the last year's Czech Cup in bouldering on the Mountaineering Film Fest 2011 in Teplice nad Metuji (Adrspach NE Czech Republic), in which the legendary Spanish climber Dani Andrada as the festival guest participated and finished in finals on 3rd place. ... full story