The trip to the last Ice climbing World Cup competition 2006 happend on the beginning of the March. The competition took place on 3–5 March in winter resort Hemsedal, Norway. ... full story
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
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
Spanish climber Dani Andrada should be as the guest on the 28th International Mountaineering Film Festival 2011 (nicknamed Festak) in Teplice nad Metuji (Adrspach Rocks, Northeast Bohemia, CZ). ... full story