Tomas Mrazek got the silver medal on the first World Cup 2007 competition in lead climbing in Imst, Austria today.
1 David Lama (AUT), 2 Tomas Mrazek (CZE), 3 Patxi Usobiaga (ESP). ... full story
Tomas Mrazek wins!
Tomas Mrazek continued to the finals from the semifinals from 4th position. Silva Rajfova ended in semifinals 13th.
The finals podium results:
1 Tomas Mrazek CZE
2 Dmitry Sharafutdinov RUS
3 Kilian Fischhuber AUT
women:
1 Yulia Abramchuk RUS
2 Akiyo Noguchi JPN
3 Tatiana Tarasova RUS
The news from Friday:
The Czech climbing World Champion Tomas Mrazek and the best Czech women competition climber Silva Rajfova continued smoothly on Friday from qualifica ... full story
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
The new indoor climbing Big Wall in Prague opens on Sept 2, 2013
The new giant indoor climbing wall is going to open on September 2, 2013 in Prague Vysocany close to metro station Ceskomorvska, line B. The name is BigWall and the hight is 20 metres. ... full story
The women Junko Tabei who the first womena who ever climbed Mt. Everest (since than she is known as a The First Everest Lady, visited Czech Republic to climb the highest peak in the Czech Republic Sněžka in Krkonoše mountain on Tuesday, August 6, 2013. ... full story
Two Slovaks are among the 9 mountaineers murdered in Pakistan
Two Slovaks are reported among the 9 mountaineers murdered in Pakistan this weekend. According to the Czech and Slovak climbing community they should be: Anton Dobeš a Peter Šperka ... full story
On Sunday 16. 6. 2013 at 18:00 CET we will release for free 25 min long "backstage movie", describing the idea of the whole project and also the making of the upcoming movie Change. ... full story
Czechs did first ascent on NW pillar Talung 7349m, Himalayas
Two Czechs Marek Holecek and Zdenek Hruby said today, thay had done the alpine style first ascent to the North West pillar of Talung (7349m) in Himalayas, Nepal. ... full story
Petrohradske Padani international bouldering competition
19th-21st April 2013
This year´s annual of the international bouldering open air competition Petrohradske Padani in Petrohrad, western Bohemia, Czech Republic, takes place on 19th-21st April 2013. ... full story
Our friend Michi Wohlleben is going to a great expedition for Dhaulagiri 8167m.
Johanna Stöckl, a German sport journalist made an interview with him. It is added in English together with a portrait of Michi. ... full story
Second wave of via ferrata set recalls within six months
Considerable deficiencies found in many via ferrata sets
A group of manufacturers issued last month a recall of certain via ferrata sets following a meeting of the UIAA (International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation) Safety Commission in Munich, Germany. A report was published on February 25th, 2013. ... full story
"Arev" Armenian First Ascent Festival, which was organized before on June 2009 and May 2011 by our club, intended to develop the rock climbing culture in Armenia, while at the same time promoting climbing at the local rock formations through the development of new routes. ... full story
Another annual of the Smichov Festival of Alpinism takes place this weekend in Prague on November 22nd-25th 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic. ... full story