UIAA Climbing Council released provisional competition calendar
2007: also Prague and Brno
UIAA Climbing - International Council for Competition Climbing (former name UIAA ICC) has released the provisional competition calendar 2007 and confirmed terms of the competitions of the World Cup in Prague and Brno (Czech Republic). ... full story
Dimarockmaster is competition in masters category for elite invited climbers and we could not have missed that even though we had been quite exhausted after all the events we had taken part in last year. ... full story
Provisional ICC calendar: lead in Prague, bouldering in Brno
World Cup 2007
According to unofficial provisional ICC calendar for competiton climbing in 2007 there should be the World Cup competition in lead climbing in Prague on May 26/27 2007 and the World Cup in bouldering in Brno (east side of Czech Republic) on November 9/10 2007. The World Championship in Marbela (ESP) should take place on September 17-23 2007. ... full story
Updated topo of the acscent Czech climbers Marek Holecek and Jan Kreisinger did new 2000 metres long route on NW face of Mount Meru (6310m) in difficulty 7a, M5, 80 degrees ice in Garhwal Himalaya, Uttar-Pradesh, India. ... full story
Vysoke napeti 8b+ in Adrspach area has another repetition
The legendary route Vysoke napeti (The High Tension) for 8b+ (Fr) in Teplicke skaly (Adrspach sandstone area, Czech Republic) had another PP repetition by Czech climber Lubos Mazl. ... full story
Adam Ondra inscribed after weekend into his diary another PP climb of route 11-/11 UIAA. The route name is Vanquish, it is in Frankenjura, Germany. ... full story
We have received a message from a photographer Bruno Karadza who is also behind the web www.penjanje.net that Tomas Mrazek and his girlfriend enjoyed their holiday in Croatia. ... full story
Two Czechs Václav Šatava and Dušan "Stoupa" Janák finalised the 17 years old project Fram on the south face of Marmolada, running between The Fish and Via Italia. They sent it in PP style on 11.-13.9.2006 and graded the pitches above the Fish Cave 8+, 10-, 9/9+, 9+ and 5 (UIAA). ... full story
The victory of Tomas Mrazek in the Duel was the nice fullstop after the overall Rock Masters. I felt it as the superb representation of the Czech climbing and the Czech Republic at all, when Tomas Mrazek in the last finals beat with a nice advantage the winner of the Rock Masters Ramon Julian. Let´s look at the small video. ... full story
To the end of Rock Masters Tomas Mrazek won Duel, play off contest of the four best from Rock Masters.
Sandrin Levet (FRA) won the Duel of women.
Final results of Rock Masters (after rp route): 1 Ramon Puigblanque (ESP), 2 Jorg Verhoeven (NED), 3 Tomas Mrazek.
Women Rock Masters: 1 Sandrin Levet (FRA), 2 Angela Eiter (AUT), 3 Charlotte Durif (FRA).
US film Return 2 Sender won the 23rd International Mountaineering Film Festival (also known as Festak) which took place in Teplice nad Metuji (Northern Bohemia) 24-27 August 2006. The film was granted by the Grand Prix and was about particular view and commentary on culture of climbing by Timmy O´Neill. ... full story
First round in Plzen, and calendar for entire year
The 1st round of Rock Point Czech Cup in bouldering 2016 takes place on Saturday March 19th in Plzen (Pilsen, West Bohemia) in center DEPO2015, Presslova 14, 301 00 Plzen 3. ... full story
Czech Championship in speed ice climbing was held last weekend on ice wall in Vir, Vysocina, Czech Republic under bad winter condition but anyway. The winners are: Milan Dvoracek and Karolina Matuskova. ... full story
Slovaks did a new route on Fitz Roy, Patagonia, Argentina
Slovaks Smolo Ján Smoleň and Michal Sabovčík did in Patagonia on peak Fitz Roy a new route "Asado M8, 7a+, A2". "After 32 years, 2nd Slovak route on Fitz Roy Asado M8,7a+,A2..." Smolo writes today on Facebook. ... full story
Winter FA of new boulder 8B+ in Petrohrad CZE, snow and -10.5°C
Video with the winter first ascent of new boulder problem Black River Society 8B+ in Petrohrad, Czech Republic, the ascender Petr Resch published yesterday. He had to clean out the snow first and according to his report the temperature was -10,5 °C. ... full story
Czech Milan Dvořáček finished 26th in the final competition of the World Cup in ice climbing in speed this weekend in Rabenstein, Italy. The competition was simultaneously European Championship. Milan Dvoracek ended on 22nd place in it. ... full story
Czech Milan Dvoracek was 12th in speed climbing on the last UIAA Ice climbing World Cup in Saas Fee, Switzerland on 22nd January. Russian climbers won all disciplines there. ... full story
Czech Libor Hroza nominated for the Athlete of the Year 2015
Czech speed climber Libor Hroza is among 18 athletes shortlisted for the IWGA Athlete of the Year 2015. He is the only Czech and the only climber on the shortlist of International World Games Association. ... full story
International Championship of Slovakia in drytooling
Czech Jan Straka won
International Championship of Slovakia in drytooling took place on December 5th 2015 on Bratislava climbing wall K2. The Czech climber Jan Straka won the comp. ... full story
Czech climber Ondrej Benes climbed on October 22 his project route Cerna perla (Black Pearl) XII of sandstone Saxon grade (French 8c?) in Elbe valley, Czech Republic. ... full story