Tomas Mrazek from Czech Republic has sent his first 8c onsight! The route is called Patra Negra and is in the sector Vente del Mascun in Rodellar. ... full story
Today (July 5th) Věra Kotasová (CZ) won 3rd place at the World Championship of bouldering in Munich. Tomáš Mrázek (CZ) put in a fine performance and ended 9th in bouldering along with his title in difficulty. ... full story
Tomáš Mrázek won the World Championship and is again World Champion! It is according to the final results of the Chamionship. He sent the final route and was 1st in front of Patxi Usobiaga (2nd,ESP) and Alexandre Chabot (3rd,FRA), who both also sent the finals route, but had worse results from the semifinals. Ramon Julian (ESP), who was the best in semifinals, was not on the finals starting list?? Check out ... full story
Almost a hundred of participants, many of them from abroad, came to the international natural boulders competition held last weekend in Petrohrad which is the top bouldering village in the Czech Republic. ... full story
Our friend, reporter, and a master climber of Bohemian and Saxon sandstone Vlada Slouka died last week among his beloved sandstone towers. ... full story
This South facing crag is home to some of the finest sport routes in Bohemia. Think of clean, crisp granite edges, perfectly rounded jugs, and ... full story
Bouldering, or Sassissmo, is once again the name of the game during this 2nd edition of Melloblocco, the two-day international meeting which in 2004 attracted an extraordinary crowd of eager participants. ... full story
How I Train- a couple pieces of advice for training
Training with the World Champion
In this article I would like to give you some advice on how to train. I don‘t want to write a novel, I just wish to express what is the foundation of my performance. ... 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
The Czech writer Josef Skvorecky, who died yesterday in Toronto, used to be a mountaineer and climbing blends many of his books. Climbing is the topic of a short story "Death on the needle" from the stories collection of Sorrow of Lieutenant Boruvka. It was also filmed. ... full story
Czech Mountaineering Union sorrow over the death of Vaclav Havel
Czech Mountaineering Union released the statement on the death of the ex-president of Czech Republic Václav Havel: "The Executive Committee of the Czech Mountaineering Association expresses deep sorrow over the death of Vaclav Havel. ... full story
Rescue service in the high altitude was one of the main topics of the this year annual of the International Smichov Festival of Alpinismus, that starts today in Prague. ... full story
Film about mountaineer Johann Stüdl granted on Tourfilm
The mountaineering film "Johann Stüdl - visionary and discoverer of the Alps" was granted on the international film festival Tourfilm 2011 in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) yesterday - by the award of the journalist association Prix FIJET. ... full story
International Mountaineering Film Festival: results
The Polish film Co sie wydarzylo wyspie to Pam about climbing in Greenland won the Grand Prize on International Mountaineering Film Festival 2011 in Teplice nad Metuji, CZ. The winners of the boulder Czech Cup were O.Nevelik and N.Kudrova. The Spanish guest Dani Andrada was 3rd. ... full story
The 28th International Mountaineering Film Festival 2011 (MHFF- nicknamed Festak) in Teplice nad Metuji (Adrspach Rocks, Northeast Bohemia, CZ), takes place on August 25-28, 2011 and is full of climbing films. The guest is the legendary climber from Spain, Dani Andrada. ... full story
Adam Ondra (CZE) was the 3rd in the World Championship in lead climbing on FRiday in Arco, Italy. The finales results:
1 Ramón Julian Puigblanque 1981 ESP Top
2 Jakob Schubert 1990 AUT -50
3 Adam Ondra 1993 CZE -50 ... full story
Czech legendary climber Oldrich Kopal died on June 16th, 2011 in age of 80 years. He is author of many legendary traditional Czech sandstone routes e.g. The Crack on Hlaska, Teplicke Skaly, Adrspach. ... full story
Adam Ondra won Doldy Championship of Czech and Slovak Republic 2011 this weekend on Prague climbing centrum SmichOFF. Tereza Svobodova was the best women. ... full story
World Cup competition in bouldering in Viena, Austria, May 13-14th, 2011: Czechs: Martin Stráník 7th, Ondra Nevelik 21st, Petra Ruzickova 31st a Karolina Neveliková 39th. ... full story