UIAA Climbing Council released provisional competition calendar
2007: also Prague and Brno
UIAA Climbing - International Council for Competition Climbing (former name UIAA ICC) has released the provisional competition calendar 2007 and confirmed terms of the competitions of the World Cup in Prague and Brno (Czech Republic). ... full story
Dimarockmaster is competition in masters category for elite invited climbers and we could not have missed that even though we had been quite exhausted after all the events we had taken part in last year. ... full story
Provisional ICC calendar: lead in Prague, bouldering in Brno
World Cup 2007
According to unofficial provisional ICC calendar for competiton climbing in 2007 there should be the World Cup competition in lead climbing in Prague on May 26/27 2007 and the World Cup in bouldering in Brno (east side of Czech Republic) on November 9/10 2007. The World Championship in Marbela (ESP) should take place on September 17-23 2007. ... full story
Updated topo of the acscent Czech climbers Marek Holecek and Jan Kreisinger did new 2000 metres long route on NW face of Mount Meru (6310m) in difficulty 7a, M5, 80 degrees ice in Garhwal Himalaya, Uttar-Pradesh, India. ... full story
Vysoke napeti 8b+ in Adrspach area has another repetition
The legendary route Vysoke napeti (The High Tension) for 8b+ (Fr) in Teplicke skaly (Adrspach sandstone area, Czech Republic) had another PP repetition by Czech climber Lubos Mazl. ... full story
Adam Ondra inscribed after weekend into his diary another PP climb of route 11-/11 UIAA. The route name is Vanquish, it is in Frankenjura, Germany. ... full story
We have received a message from a photographer Bruno Karadza who is also behind the web www.penjanje.net that Tomas Mrazek and his girlfriend enjoyed their holiday in Croatia. ... full story
Two Czechs Václav Šatava and Dušan "Stoupa" Janák finalised the 17 years old project Fram on the south face of Marmolada, running between The Fish and Via Italia. They sent it in PP style on 11.-13.9.2006 and graded the pitches above the Fish Cave 8+, 10-, 9/9+, 9+ and 5 (UIAA). ... full story
The victory of Tomas Mrazek in the Duel was the nice fullstop after the overall Rock Masters. I felt it as the superb representation of the Czech climbing and the Czech Republic at all, when Tomas Mrazek in the last finals beat with a nice advantage the winner of the Rock Masters Ramon Julian. Let´s look at the small video. ... full story
To the end of Rock Masters Tomas Mrazek won Duel, play off contest of the four best from Rock Masters.
Sandrin Levet (FRA) won the Duel of women.
Final results of Rock Masters (after rp route): 1 Ramon Puigblanque (ESP), 2 Jorg Verhoeven (NED), 3 Tomas Mrazek.
Women Rock Masters: 1 Sandrin Levet (FRA), 2 Angela Eiter (AUT), 3 Charlotte Durif (FRA).
US film Return 2 Sender won the 23rd International Mountaineering Film Festival (also known as Festak) which took place in Teplice nad Metuji (Northern Bohemia) 24-27 August 2006. The film was granted by the Grand Prix and was about particular view and commentary on culture of climbing by Timmy O´Neill. ... full story
Petrohradske Padani international bouldering competition
12th-14th May 2017
This year´s annual of the international bouldering open air competition Petrohradske Padani in Petrohrad, western Bohemia, Czech Republic, takes place on 12th-14th May 2017. ... full story
Adam Ondra and Eliška Adamovská won the Czech Cup in lead climbing in Brno today. Jakub Konečný and Lenka Slezáková were 2nd, Rishat Khaibullin and Iva Vejmolová 3rd. ... full story
Adam Ondra: auction of Dawn Wall climbing shoes for NGO
Adam Ondra announced tonight an auction for a Czech NGO People in Need / Člověk v tísni of his climbing shoes he had used on Dawn Wall. The bids in euros cab be given among comments on his Instagram profile. The deadline is on Tuesday 28th on 8 pm GMT+2. ... full story
Despite no success on his trip to Spain, on his way back Adam Ondra did 8c+ in St-Léger du Ventoux, France, not onsight, but "retroonsight", as he explained. ... full story
Czech girl Eliska Adamovska sent her 1st 8c and it has been probably the best Czech female ascent for the last 3 years. She climbed Fish Eye 8c in Oliana, Spain, as she informed on Instagram. ... full story
Karolína Matušková and Milan Dvořáček won the Czech Championship in speed ice climbing Adrex Ice Run 2017 in Liberec (North Bohemie) on February 18th 2017. ... full story
Adam Ondra: Happy Day for Iva Vejmolova to her 1st 8b+
Adam Ondra did a first ascent 9a/a+ in Spanish Oliana, that he named Happy Day, because f his girlfriend Iva Vejmolová did her first 8b+. Iva did in Oliana other hard routes and in ranking on our website she jumd up on the 2nd place just behind Edita Vopatova. ... full story
Adam Ondra: Pachamama 9a+ and next maybe project of 9b/+
Adam Ondra reports from Spain, where he climbs in Oliana, that he sent Pachamama 9a+ and next look could be project of 9b or 9b+ bolted by Chris Sharma. ... full story
Czech ice climbers got to the finals of the Ice climbing World Cup in Saas Fee, Switzerland, in speed climbing: Karolína Matušková was the 10th among females, Milan Dvořáček 13th among males. ... full story
New Year web premier of the film Rock Duel Adam vs Martin, with top climbers Adam Ondra and Martin Stráník matching their strengths in Red Overhangs in Srbsko near Prague in climbing OS, RP and other not traditional styles was published on Youtube by Czech Mountaineering Union. ... full story
Czech best boulderer Martin Stráník did the most difficult boulder problem of this year Catalán Witness The Fitness 8C in La Cova de l'Ocell, Barcelona, Spain. ... full story