Czech young climber Adam Ondra recorded to his diary new ascents of routes 8c+ in Schleier Wasserfall, Austria. On Saturday June 14 he sent Gambit 8c+ (by Alex Huber) and Das Erbe Der Vater 8c+ (by Markus Bendler) both in second attempt. In addition Adam sent Helium 8b+ on sigh on Sunday. ... full story
Slovaks Dodo Kopold and Vlado Plulik summited Gasherbrumu I.
Slovaks Dodo Kopold and Vlado Plulik reached summit of Gasherbrum I (8068 m) today, June 15, 2008. From col between Gasherbrums in altitude (6450m) they climbed via North face in one pace in 16 hours to the top and back. ... full story
World Cup in bouldering in Fiera di Primiero (ITA): Czech girl Silva Rajfova finished on 5th place in the finals. Anna Stöhr (AUT) and David Lama (AUT) won. ... full story
Slackline fest as the part of Slackline Tour 2008 is scheduled on weekend June 20-22, 2008 in Hejnice, close to Liberec (in German Reichenberg), Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic. ... full story
Slovak mountaineer Dodo Kopold reached summit of Gasherbrum II. (8035 m) via French pillar on June 9, 2008. His partner Vlado Plulik turned down 300 meters under the summit for bad weather. ... full story
Fontainebleau was the most frequented topic of the amateurs films on the last weekend event Film Boulder Festival in Loucovice at Lipno, South Bohemia, Czech Republic. ... full story
UPDATE +photos
Czechs finished in semifinals on the World Cup bouldering competition in Vail (USA) on Jun 6-7 2008 - Silva Rajfova was 10th, Martin Stranik 11th. The winners are Alex Johnson (USA) and Kilian Fischhuber (AUT). ... full story
„Triple North Walls“ is the attempt to climb three elegant first ascents in different high mountain areas in Asia: in the Nepalese Himalayas, Pakistani Karakorum and Afghan Vachan on three beautiful mountains where have not been more than ten ascents up to now. ... full story
The 3rd annual of bouldering session and festival Film Boulder Fest 2008 will take place next weekend June 7-8 in Loucovice / Lipno in South Bohemia, Czech Republic. ... full story
Martin Stranik (CZE) finished 39th and Silva Rajfova (CZE) gained 27th place on the World Cup competition in bouldering in Grindelwand, Switzerland. Ii the evenings finals today there Dmitry Sharafutdinov (RUS) and Anna Stöhr (AUT) won. ... full story
VIDEO: Tomas Mrazek, Chris Sharma etc. climbing on Dima Master
Look at the video, Tomas Mrazek climbing the winning send on competition Master Dimarock in Basque Country, Spain. There are btw Chris Sharma in impressive nearly successful on sight attempt of route 8c/8c+ in the local cave Batzola and the others videos too. ... full story
Report Dima, Basque, Spain: Chris Sharma climbed all four boulder problems and won 1800 euros, Tomas Mrazek did two boulder problems and got for them 600 euros. The rest of the competitors did not climb any problem of Dimablock. ... full story
Nicolas Favresse repeated Greenspit a contender for the hardest trad crack in Europe. At the end of two days of effort Nico managed to repeat the route on his 7th try placing the protection on the send. ... full story
IFSC European Youth Series (L) - Prague (CZE) 2008
qualification
Todays qualification of the IFSC European Youth Series in lead climbing in Prague, Czech Republic: the three Czech representatives succeeded in their categories: Adam Ondra, Martin Stranik and Silva Rajfová continues to the Sunday´s finals. ... full story