Petrohradske Padani international bouldering competition 2015
results
Brief results of the 14th annual of PADani 2015, the open air international bouldering competition, in Petrohrad, West Bohemia, Czech Republic ... full story
Czech mountaineers Jindrich Hudecek and Michal Brunner finished first ascent on Aguja Poincenot (3002 m) in Patagonia on February 2nd, 2015. The new route "Invisible Line" is 7a A1 hard and 400 m long. ... full story
Lucie Hrozova and Milan Dvoracek won the Czech Championship in speed ice climbing 2015, that took place on Saturday February 14th, on ice wall in Vir, CZ. ... full story
Several years ago I got the chance to interview Adam for an American climbing magazine. At the time his exploits were just becoming known to the world, but his talent was already well known in the Czech climbing community. ... full story
Adam Ondra who is in the lead of both rankings (difficulty and boulder), sent before the weekend his longterm project in Moravian Karst. ... full story
Pepa Šindel has climbed a Classified 9a/+ in Frankenjura
Pepa Šindel has recorded another route of difficulty 9a or higher, the Classified 9a/9a+ (11 UIAA) line in the German Frankenjura. He recorded the climb in his Lezec.cz diary and is reporting on it on Instagram. It is Pepa's eighth recorded route of 9a or 9a/+, and he also has one 9a+ in his diary. ... full story
Video: Adam Ondra Flash 8B+ and Attempts 9A (+) in Fontainebleu
Adam Ondra has posted a new video from a recent visit to Fontainebleau, France, where he managed to flash several difficult boulders at 8B and 8B+ and then tried the Imothep Assiss project with local legends, which could possibly be at 9A+. ... full story
Czech town Brno to host the 2027 World Climbing Championships
The Czech Republic has successfully applied to host the 2027 World Sport Climbing Championships. The decision was made today at the General Assembly of the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) in Cyprus. The championship will take place from 13 to 27 August 2027 in the Arena Brno, which is still under construction. ... full story
Speed, lead and boulder will be separate at the 2028 Olympics
The International Olympic Committee confirmed yesterday that 3 sets of medals will be prepared for sport climbing at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, meaning there will be separate competitions in speed, lead and boulder. They announced this on the Czech Olympic Committee's Facebook page. ... full story
Adam Ondra: the Prague comp will be my last bouldering World Cup
Adam Ondra is retiring from competitive bouldering at the World Cup. Today, he announced at a press conference that he wants to compete in the World Cup bouldering competition at Letná in Prague from June 6th to 8th for the last time. He wants to focus on world championships in lead climbing, as well as rock climbing, where he is currently focused on the B.I.G. route for 9c in Flatanger, Norway. ... full story
Lukáš Mokroluský climbed his first 9a: Action Directe in FJ
Lukáš Mokroluský climbed his first 9a, the legendary Action Directe (11 UIAA) in Frankenjura, Germany, the first route of this difficulty in history by Wolfgang Güllich in 1991. ... full story
Radek Votoček climbed his first 9a: the route Senzace on Krkavka
Radek Votoček, who has 14 routes of 8c+ to his credit, half of which he climbed in the last nine months, repeated the route Senzace 9a (11 UIAA) by Adam Ondra on Krkavka near Semily, CZ. ... full story
Youth Ski Mountaineering World Cup France: Eva Matějovičová gold
Eva Matějovičová won gold at the Youth Ski Mountaineering World Cup in the Olympic sprint discipline on Wednesday at the race in Puy-Saint-Vincent, France. ... full story
Adam Ondra has posted a new short documentary on Youtube from the Soudain seul 9A boulder in Fontainebleau, France, which he recently managed to climb.
The film is about 19 minutes long and you can watch it here: ... full story
Pepa Šindel has climbed another 9a route: Nid de Fadas
Czech Pepa Šindel (17) has logged another 9a route, the Nid de Fadas line in the Leonidio, Greece. He logged the climb on Lezec.cz and is reporting on it on Instagram. It is Pepa's seventh logged 9a route and he also has one 9a+ in his log. ... full story
Ice Climbing World Cup in Canada: Aneta Loužecká 2nd in speed
Czech Aneta Loužecká won the silver medal yesterday in the last race of the Ice Climbing World Cup season in Edmonton, Canada. She has bronze for the overall ranking in the Ice Climbing World Cup. ... full story
Adam Ondra flashes another 8B+ boulder and is trying a 9A+
Adam Ondra flashed another 8B+ boulder, the Imothep du sol problem in Fontainebleau, a "standing" variant of the potential 9A+ Imothep Assiss (sitting) project. This achievement follows his recent repeat of the 9A Soudain seul boulder and flashing boulders 8B+ and 8B. ... full story
Adam Ondra sent boulder Soudain seul 9A in Fontainebleau
Adam Ondra announced that he had successfully repeated the 9A Soudain seul boulder in Fontainebleau, France. The following day, he flashed boulders Ubik assis (8B) and La Ligne de Bête (8B+). ... full story
Adam Ondra announced that he managed the flash boulder El Elegido in the Spanish region of La Pedriza, rated 8B+/C. Adam suggested the difficulty level 8B+. "It is possibly the bouldering flash ascent that I value the most, even though I probably can't take the slash grade," Adam said of his achievement. This is his second flash boulder of this difficulty. ... full story
World Cup speed ice climbing Saas Fee (SUI): Aneta Loužecká 3rd
Czech Aneta Loužecká won the bronze medal in the female finals of the World Cup in speed ice climbing in Saas Fee, Switzerland, yesterday. In the men's category, Czechs competitors finished in the qualification: Matyáš Lienerth 29th, Jan Mikel 30th and Pavel Motal 44th. ... full story