The World Champion and the winner of the World Cup 04 in climbing Tomas Mrazek and his partner Helena Lipenska just have escaped from the lethal tsunami today in Thailand.

According to his father info on Czech version CzechClimbing.com (Lezec.cz) they have survived the large earthquake wave by good luck without any injuries. The quake caused huge casualties in Southeast Asia. Tomas and Helena have been evacuated and will return home tomorrow.
General info about the quake e.g. on CCN

“We are in Aonang in the town. It was horrible. We should go by boat, but we saw the wave. The beaches are damaged, we saw a dead corpus. We have through jungle to the town. The emergency helicopters are everywhere,” Helena Lipenska said later according to the Czech national web news site iDNES.

Afternoon a message came from Thailand by Czech climbing team coach Tomas Kysilka who spent several weeks there with his daughter Czech climbing reprezentant Tereza Kysilkova:
"It was hard. Fortunately we just climbed 3O m above tha sea, when it came. It lasted abut a half hour. Nobody understood it, sea was as usualy calm here and weather was excelent. We are O.K.
We are in Railay. Everything is destroied in 50 m from the sea. There is a little bit panique here, whether tsunami would come again, but weather is absolutly calm. We will help tomorrow with tidying."


Climbing in Thailand: Jai Dum and Tereza Kysilková - an archive photo from January 2004