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
"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
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