Tomas Mrazek did 8c+ PP and is back in the rock ranking
Top competion climber Tomas Mrazek reports several hard sends from his last trip to Southern France. He did one 8c+, four 8c's, and onsighed one 8b+. The sends from this trip lifted him back to 2nd position on the CzechClimbing.com ranking, just behind Adam Ondra. ... full story
Photos from Adam Ondra´s climb of multi-pitch Silbergeier 8b+
Look at a few photos of Adam Ondra in the mountain multi-pitch route Silbergeier 8b+, which he climbed besides the other extreme ascents two weeks ago during one day of the practising (look at the article from August 5th 2007). ... full story
Adam Ondra sends hard multi-pitch routes in the Alps
Silbergeier 8b+ and more...
Besides Abysse, 9a (in the news from Friday) Adam Ondra has entered into his diary here on CzechClimbing.com recently climbs of hard multi-pitch routes in Alps: Silbergeier 8b+ and Zub za zub 8b+ in Rätikon, the Alps region in Switzerland and Austria. ... full story
Young Czech climber Adam Ondra (14) did on August 1st, 2007 the route Abysse 9a in French area Gorge du Loup on Wednesday. He did the masterpiece of French Alexandre Chabot in only three attempts . ... full story
Czech young climber Adam Ondra (14) has been nominated among candidates for the second edition of the Arco Rock Legends which will take place on 07/09/2007, on the eve of the XXI Rock Master at Arco (Garda Trentino, Italy). ... full story
Latest News: Tomas Mrazek finished 8th in the finals of the World Cup in lead climbing in Chamonix tonight.
Flavio Crespi (ITA) was the men's winner, Maja Vidmar (SLO) won the women's. ... full story
Hudy Cup outdoor bouldering competition took place in Modrin, the new boulder area in Northern Bohemia (in the northwest of the Czech Republic) last weekend on June 16th 2007. It attracted more than 200 people, including 50 foreigners, and the Czech climbing star Adam Ondra has won. ... full story
The penalizing of Adam Ondra for using magnesium at Czech sandstones areas is considered by many of the pro-chalk supporters as nonsense and to create an alibi for the Union. ... full story
German Champion Andreas Bindhammer visited last month one of the most popular Czech sandstones area in the Labe (Elbe) valley - called Labak. ... full story
Adam Ondra has been penalized by the Committee of Alpinisum ČHS (Czech Mountaineering Association) for using chalk on such routes as: Pěkná ústa, oči zelené XIc and Boží muka Xb, in the sandstone areas around Zleb (Labe valley, Elbetal), in the north of the Republic. ... full story
The 2007 annual PADani boulder competition in Petrohrad village (western Bohemia) is over, the last song has played at the afterparty, and the main prizes this year went to Adam Ondra and Nelly Kudrova. ... full story
„La Rambla or Las Ramblas (Catalan Les Rambles) is a 1,258, 59 meters long boulevard in the center of Barcelona, which connects the Plaça de Catalunya with the port. “ (Source: wikipedia) ... 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
A friend living in France has noticed that a French newspaper is reporting that Patrick Edlinger, one of the great free climbers of the 1980s, has died at age 52. ... full story
Czech distributor of Camp via ferrata sets has sent recently the statement that the via ferrata sets by Camp are safe. The statements had reacted on several recalling actions announced by several other producers and distributors after an accident in Alps in Europe this summer. ... full story
Film festival Poprad (SK):Grand Prix goes to Poland
Baumgartner got the prize just while he jumped from stratosphere
Grand Prix of the XX. International Festival of the Mountain Films in Poprad, the main resort in High Tatras, Slovakia, was granted to the Polish film Declaration of Immortality of the director Marcin Koszałka. ... full story
Mountaineer Leopold Sulovsky continues in elections to Senat
Mountaineer Leopold Sulovsky, who as the 1st Czech climbed to top of Mount Everest, won the first round of the elections to Senate of the Czech Parliament and will continue to the 2nd round in one week. ... full story
Dear valued users, customers and business partners, We, the Czech manufacturers of climbing equipment, feel it is important to issue the following joint statement after the tragic accident of August 5th, 2012, ... full story
The new highest artificial climbing route in Czech Republic has been opend this month at the new climbing gym FreeSolo in Prague 11 - Chodov (Jizni Mesto). The route has 35m on the outdoor chimney. ... full story
Several Czech mountain equipment manufacturers has issued safety recall of the some types of via ferrata sets after a death accident in Tyrolean Alps on the foreign goods of similar construction. ... full story
International Mountaineering Film Festival with Silvia Vidal
The Polish film Deklaracja nieśmiertelności (Declaration of Immortality) won the Grand Prize on International Mountaineering Film Festival 2012 in Teplice nad Metuji, CZ. The winners of the boulder Czech Cup were Stepan Stranik and Nelly Kudrova. ... full story
Premiere of film Piskari (Sandmen), bigwall expert from Calalunia Sílvia Vidal and more of climbing movies, guests and actions is scheduled on this year Festak, that is the 29th International Mountaineering Film Festival (MHFF- nicknamed Festak), that begins next Thursday. ... full story