The World Champion in lead climbing Tomas Mrazek and his friend Helena Lipenska returned from Spain climbing yesterday and wrote a short report according to it Tomas did 21 routes (8a to 8b+) on sight or flash, Helena 2x 8a PP, 7c on sight. ... full story
Try to look at the tip for ice climbing we tried this weekend at the artificial ice tower in ski resort at Tanvaldsky Spicak in Jizerske hory (Iser Gebirge), close to Jablonec, Nord Bohemia. ... full story
The climbing World Champion Tomas Mrazek will not in the end attend this year's Winter Olympic Games where the climbing was in the last moment contributed as additional program. ... full story
Ines Papert (DE) and Simon Wadeler (CH) won the World Cup competition in difficulty ice climbing today in Spicak, Czech Republic.
Ksenia Sdobnikova (RUS) was 2nd woman, Anna Torreta (ITA) 3rd and Markus Bendler (AUT) was 2nd man, Harald Berger (AUT) was 3rd.
Women:
4 Petra Muller (SUI)
5 Jitka Mazlova ( CZ)
6 Franziska Donhuber (DE)
7 Julia Oleynikova (RUS)
8 Jaroslava Melounova (CZ)
Men:
4 Yevgen Kryvo ... full story
There is a tip for a bit non traditional trip to winter Alps at three big walls. In the beginning of January we set out to weekend to explore three giant indoor climbing halls to Austria and Bavaria: in Innsbruck, Imst and Munich. ... full story
Look at the video from the Czech Championship in lead climbing shot on December 4th 2005 in Prague. We got the movie from Helena Lipenská and Tomas Mrazek. ... full story
Update - the list of the climbers and the schedule
Climbing will be at the 20th winter Olympic Games. It sounds nearly unbelievable, but that is the truth. ... full story
Film festival Poprad (SK):Grand Prix goes to Poland
Baumgartner got the prize just while he jumped from stratosphere
Grand Prix of the XX. International Festival of the Mountain Films in Poprad, the main resort in High Tatras, Slovakia, was granted to the Polish film Declaration of Immortality of the director Marcin Koszałka. ... full story
Mountaineer Leopold Sulovsky continues in elections to Senat
Mountaineer Leopold Sulovsky, who as the 1st Czech climbed to top of Mount Everest, won the first round of the elections to Senate of the Czech Parliament and will continue to the 2nd round in one week. ... full story
Dear valued users, customers and business partners, We, the Czech manufacturers of climbing equipment, feel it is important to issue the following joint statement after the tragic accident of August 5th, 2012, ... full story
The new highest artificial climbing route in Czech Republic has been opend this month at the new climbing gym FreeSolo in Prague 11 - Chodov (Jizni Mesto). The route has 35m on the outdoor chimney. ... full story
Several Czech mountain equipment manufacturers has issued safety recall of the some types of via ferrata sets after a death accident in Tyrolean Alps on the foreign goods of similar construction. ... full story
International Mountaineering Film Festival with Silvia Vidal
The Polish film Deklaracja nieśmiertelności (Declaration of Immortality) won the Grand Prize on International Mountaineering Film Festival 2012 in Teplice nad Metuji, CZ. The winners of the boulder Czech Cup were Stepan Stranik and Nelly Kudrova. ... full story
Premiere of film Piskari (Sandmen), bigwall expert from Calalunia Sílvia Vidal and more of climbing movies, guests and actions is scheduled on this year Festak, that is the 29th International Mountaineering Film Festival (MHFF- nicknamed Festak), that begins next Thursday. ... full story
EYC in Pieve (ITA): Czech got gold, silver and bronze
Czechs young climbers Veronika Scheuerova, Jan Kriz, Jan Dosedel and Miroslav Dosedel got 2 golden, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals on the European Youth Cup EYC in Pieve (ITA) in speed climbing last weekend. ... full story
Jorg Verhoeven (NED) and Momoka Oda (JAP) won World Cup in lead climbing in Imst, Austria) this weekend. From the Czechs the best was Tereza Svobodova on 32nd position among women. ... full story
Czech Mrs. mountaineer Zuzana Hofmanova died on Broad Peak
Zuzana Hofmannova, one of the Czech best woman mountaineers died on July 31st, 2012 when she did not come back from the summit of Broad Peak, her 4th 8000 meters high mountain. The sad news was published on the expedition site: ... full story
Czech mountaineer and politician (Member of Czech Parliament and ex mayor of Prague) Pavel Bém with Slovak mountaineer Peter Hámor reached the summit of K2 (8 611 m) in Karakoram on August 1st 2012. ... full story
The best Czech climber Adam Ondra escaped this summer Dipsy to Norway and according to his climbs it looks like the temperature there is very good for hard climbing. ... full story