Legendary Czech sandstone climber Bohumil Sykora died last week on 24th June in age of 83 years.

He first climbed the brave hard trad routes on Czech sandstones in Adrspach and Teplice nad Metuji (North East Bohemia) in 50s and 60s.

Then he emigrated to Germany where he climbed with his son Milan Sykora. Milan performed elite climbing there. Especially he founded the route Action Direct, the first 9a and after attempreing to climbing he left it to Wolfgang Gulllich who did the first ascent.

Later Bohumil came back to Czech Republic to live in Adrspach area and presented the tradtion of the Czech clibming btw. by writing the book Piskari (Sandstone climbers) about history of this climbing tradition.