Reinhold Messner at Smichov Festival of Alpinismus in Prague
Reinhold Messner is the main guest of the Smichov Festival of Alpinismus, that starts today in Prague. He considers as his the best mountaineering success the fact that he is still alive, he said on opening press conference of the festival today. ... full story
Let me just touch the initial data in brief, as they never reveal either a breakthrough information or anything entertaining and they mostly convey just ordinary, and, in a way, boring portion of every expedition. ... full story
Czech Tomas Mrazek finished 3rd in the finals of the World Cup competition in lead climbing in Brno, Czech Republic. Jakob Schubert (AUT) won, Patxi Usobiaga (ESP) was 2nd. The biggest favorite, Czech Adam Ondra finished in semifinals on 11th place. ... full story
Tomas Mrazek has completed his hard project „Xaxid Hostel" 9a+.
Tomas Mrazek is after injury back in great shape. He has just climbed his hard project „Xaxid Hostel“ 9a+ in Osp. The 45 meter long route leads in the midle of Misja Pec, next to the route JSFK 7c+. Tomáš has tried it occasionally for last four years. He sent it on his twentieth attempts. ... full story
A 35metres long, extremely overhanging route - called Marina Superstar (extension of existing route Marina 8c/c+) was bolted by Matteo Marini, is situated in sector "Bronx" near Domusnovas vilage about 40kms from Cagliari. ... full story
The only 9 days after we left Kathmandu we reached the summit of beautiful CHO OYU on 1.10.2009:
Zuzana Hofmannova, Olga Novakova, Josef Milfait, Antonin Belik, Pavel Matousek ... full story
In spite of forecast was not good and dry, the old projects awaited for sends before the first frosts and winter snow. So more people went to colorful woods in German Frankenjura in this fall. ... full story
Czech Adam Ondra has won the competiton of the World Cup in lead climbing in Puurs, Belgium, this night. He was the only one man who reached the top of the finals route. ... full story
Czech big wall climber Ondra Benes has finalized this summer the Alp trilogy by climbing the route Des Kaisers neue Kleider on Fleischbank in Wilder Kaiser, Austria. ... full story
Czech Libor Hroza won speed competition RockMaster this weekend in Arco, Italy. As the only competitor he did the route under 8 seconds (7.21 s). His sister Lucie Hrozova finished 8th in speed. In lead climbing Czech Adam Ondra finished 3rd, Tomas Mrazek 6th. ... full story
Festak - International Mountaineering Film Festival 2009
The Sharp End wins
The Grand prize of the 26th annual of International Mountaineering Film Festival 2009 (MHFF) was granted to US film Sharp End on last weekend in North East Bohemia sandstones climbing area Adrspach (Czech Republic). ... full story
Pepa Šindel has climbed another 9a route: Nid de Fadas
Czech Pepa Šindel (17) has logged another 9a route, the Nid de Fadas line in the Leonidio, Greece. He logged the climb on Lezec.cz and is reporting on it on Instagram. It is Pepa's seventh logged 9a route and he also has one 9a+ in his log. ... full story
Adam Ondra flashes another 8B+ boulder and is trying a 9A+
Adam Ondra flashed another 8B+ boulder, the Imothep du sol problem in Fontainebleau, a "standing" variant of the potential 9A+ Imothep Assiss (sitting) project. This achievement follows his recent repeat of the 9A Soudain seul boulder and flashing boulders 8B+ and 8B. ... full story
Adam Ondra announced that he managed the flash boulder El Elegido in the Spanish region of La Pedriza, rated 8B+/C. Adam suggested the difficulty level 8B+. "It is possibly the bouldering flash ascent that I value the most, even though I probably can't take the slash grade," Adam said of his achievement. This is his second flash boulder of this difficulty. ... full story
Ice Climbing World Cup South Korea: Aneta Loužecká 7th in lead
In the finals of the World Cup ice climbing competition in South Korea yesterday, the Czech Aneta Loužecká finished in 7th place in lead. ... full story
Film: Adam Ondra at Jana Švecová's & on the Terranova 8C+
A new documentary film from a visit to our top boulderer Jana Švecová's home bouldering site, with her he then set off on his not repeated 2011 boulder Terranova 8C+ in the Moravian Karst, which Jana has been practicing recently, was published yesterday on YouTube by Adam Ondra. ... full story
Video: Adam Ondra and Jakob Schubert attempt DNA 9c by Seb Bouin
Adam Ondra started practicing one of the hardest routes in the world, the 9c DNA in Verdon, France, set up by Frenchman Seb Bouin in 2022. Austrian Jakob Schubert attempted the route with Adam. Adam published a new half-hour video from the route practice yesterday on his Youtube channel. ... full story
New videos from Jana Švecová's bouldering in Switzerland
Two new videos from bouldering in Switzerland have been posted on YouTube by the Czech leading boulderer Jana Švecová (Vincourková). One is from the end of November, the other from yesterday. ... full story
Czech Matyáš Lienerth won silver yesterday at the UIAA Continental Ice Climbing Cup in Brno as the best of Czechia. In the women's category, Aneta Loužecká placed as best Czech in 7th place. The winners were Jonathan Arthur Brown from Switzerland and Haruko Takeuchi from Japan. ... full story
The fact that climbers also spend their time bouldering as part of their acclimatization at base camp is nothing new. However, climber Marek Disman (DISMANTEAM) has compiled a slim brochure from his recent expedition to the Himalayas, where he went with his climbing partner Honza Kreisinger, in which he clearly captured the bouldering problems with which the two climbers spent their time at ba ... full story
Adam Ondra's start at the WC in Briancon was prevented by covid
Adam Ondra's planned start at tomorrow's World Cup in lead climbing in Briancon, France, was prevented because he has covid infection. They informed about it today on Facebook of the Czech Mountaineering Union.
Only Eliška Adamovská, Míša Smetanová, Martin Stráník, the Potůček brothers and Jáchym Cink are to represent Czechs in tomorrow's qualification. ... full story
World climbing icon Chris Sharma is to be at Festák this year
At this year's climbing festival in Teplice nad Metují, East Bohemia, Czechia, on 25-28 August should be Chris Sharma, they said yesterday on the ČHS Facebook page. ... full story
Lucka Hrozová announced the climb of her hardest boulder Prehistorik 8B/8B+ from Martin Stráník in Labák. She matched the performance of Jana Švecová (Vincourková), who climbed the same bomber last month and was still the only Czech to have this bouldering difficulty. ... full story
Eliška Adamovská won a silver medal today in the European Boulder Cup in Brixen, Italy. "The first three boulders climbed with a clear flash! She also did well in the last, hardest boulder, and only two attempts separated her from the gold medal," commented on her final performance on Facebook by ČHS. ... full story
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Reinhold Messner is the main guest of the Smichov Festival of Alpinismus, that starts today in Prague. He considers as his the best mountaineering success the fact that he is still alive, he said on opening press conference of the festival today. 
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Let me just touch the initial data in brief, as they never reveal either a breakthrough information or anything entertaining and they mostly convey just ordinary, and, in a way, boring portion of every expedition. 
Czech Tomas Mrazek finished 3rd in the finals of the World Cup competition in lead climbing in Brno, Czech Republic. Jakob Schubert (AUT) won, Patxi Usobiaga (ESP) was 2nd. The biggest favorite, Czech Adam Ondra finished in semifinals on 11th place. 
Tomas Mrazek is after injury back in great shape. He has just climbed his hard project „Xaxid Hostel“ 9a+ in Osp. The 45 meter long route leads in the midle of Misja Pec, next to the route JSFK 7c+. Tomáš has tried it occasionally for last four years. He sent it on his twentieth attempts. 
Martin Stranik and Nelly Kudrova won the Czech Championship in bouldering on last Saturday October 31st, 2009 in Brno. 
A 35metres long, extremely overhanging route - called Marina Superstar (extension of existing route Marina 8c/c+) was bolted by Matteo Marini, is situated in sector "Bronx" near Domusnovas vilage about 40kms from Cagliari. 
The only 9 days after we left Kathmandu we reached the summit of beautiful CHO OYU on 1.10.2009:
In spite of forecast was not good and dry, the old projects awaited for sends before the first frosts and winter snow. So more people went to colorful woods in German Frankenjura in this fall. 
Czech Adam Ondra has won the competiton of the World Cup in lead climbing in Puurs, Belgium, this night. He was the only one man who reached the top of the finals route. 
Czech big wall climber Ondra Benes has finalized this summer the Alp trilogy by climbing the route Des Kaisers neue Kleider on Fleischbank in Wilder Kaiser, Austria. 
Czech Libor Hroza won speed competition RockMaster this weekend in Arco, Italy. As the only competitor he did the route under 8 seconds (7.21 s). His sister Lucie Hrozova finished 8th in speed. In lead climbing Czech Adam Ondra finished 3rd, Tomas Mrazek 6th. 
The Grand prize of the 26th annual of International Mountaineering Film Festival 2009 (MHFF) was granted to US film Sharp End on last weekend in North East Bohemia sandstones climbing area Adrspach (Czech Republic). 
Czech Adam Ondra won World Cup in lead climbing in Imst, Austria this weekend. 
Czech climbers reached the top of Gasherbrum I. 
Czech Pepa Šindel (17) has logged another 9a route, the Nid de Fadas line in the Leonidio, Greece. He logged the climb on Lezec.cz and is reporting on it on Instagram. It is Pepa's seventh logged 9a route and he also has one 9a+ in his log. 
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Adam Ondra flashed another 8B+ boulder, the Imothep du sol problem in Fontainebleau, a "standing" variant of the potential 9A+ Imothep Assiss (sitting) project. This achievement follows his recent repeat of the 9A Soudain seul boulder and flashing boulders 8B+ and 8B. 
Adam Ondra announced that he managed the flash boulder El Elegido in the Spanish region of La Pedriza, rated 8B+/C. Adam suggested the difficulty level 8B+. "It is possibly the bouldering flash ascent that I value the most, even though I probably can't take the slash grade," Adam said of his achievement. This is his second flash boulder of this difficulty. 
In the finals of the World Cup ice climbing competition in South Korea yesterday, the Czech Aneta Loužecká finished in 7th place in lead. 
Happy New Year 2025 from Lezec.cz. 
A new documentary film from a visit to our top boulderer Jana Švecová's home bouldering site, with her he then set off on his not repeated 2011 boulder Terranova 8C+ in the Moravian Karst, which Jana has been practicing recently, was published yesterday on YouTube by Adam Ondra. 
Adam Ondra started practicing one of the hardest routes in the world, the 9c DNA in Verdon, France, set up by Frenchman Seb Bouin in 2022. Austrian Jakob Schubert attempted the route with Adam. Adam published a new half-hour video from the route practice yesterday on his Youtube channel. 
Two new videos from bouldering in Switzerland have been posted on YouTube by the Czech leading boulderer Jana Švecová (Vincourková). One is from the end of November, the other from yesterday. 
Czech Matyáš Lienerth won silver yesterday at the UIAA Continental Ice Climbing Cup in Brno as the best of Czechia. In the women's category, Aneta Loužecká placed as best Czech in 7th place. The winners were Jonathan Arthur Brown from Switzerland and Haruko Takeuchi from Japan.
The fact that climbers also spend their time bouldering as part of their acclimatization at base camp is nothing new. However, climber Marek Disman (DISMANTEAM) has compiled a slim brochure from his recent expedition to the Himalayas, where he went with his climbing partner Honza Kreisinger, in which he clearly captured the bouldering problems with which the two climbers spent their time at ba 
Adam Ondra's planned start at tomorrow's World Cup in lead climbing in Briancon, France, was prevented because he has covid infection. They informed about it today on Facebook of the Czech Mountaineering Union.
At this year's climbing festival in Teplice nad Metují, East Bohemia, Czechia, on 25-28 August should be Chris Sharma, they said yesterday on the ČHS Facebook page. 
Adam Ondra won the World Cup of lead climbing in Chamonix, France today. 
Lucka Hrozová announced the climb of her hardest boulder Prehistorik 8B/8B+ from Martin Stráník in Labák. She matched the performance of Jana Švecová (Vincourková), who climbed the same bomber last month and was still the only Czech to have this bouldering difficulty. 
Eliška Adamovská won a silver medal today in the European Boulder Cup in Brixen, Italy. "The first three boulders climbed with a clear flash! She also did well in the last, hardest boulder, and only two attempts separated her from the gold medal," commented on her final performance on Facebook by ČHS. 
