Many climbers are attracted by stunning granite walls of Val di Mello but recently more and more climbers are heading to its famous bouldering area. A good news for second group is that a new great bouldering guide book has appeared.
Much more Melloblocco!
From Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th May 2008 the legendary Melloblocco® is back in Val Masino. This international rendez-vous that, for 5 years, has attracted thousands of boulderers from all over the world for the most impressive gathering of people who love bouldering, climbing and the breath-taking wilderness of Val Masino.
Giant avalanche buried a snowboarder on Saturday afternoon in Polish side of Krkonose (Giant Mountains, Riesen Gebirge, North border of Bohemia, West part of Czech), Czech mainstream news site iDNES reported.
International mountaineering and climbing federation UIAA announces to its member organizations that the largest German and Austrian clubs: DAV, OeAV and VAVOe are leaving UIAA.
A new piece of interesting information just arrived from Colorado.
A new museum was opened in February this year- the first and only museum dedicated to mountaineering in US.
Czech reps incl Adam Ondra and Tomas Mrazek are going to Osp
The Czech national team is going on a climbing trip to Osp, Slovenia next week. The most powerful set is to go: Adam Ondra, Tomas Mrazek, Martin Stranik, Rosta Stefanek and Silva Rajfova.
The season of this year World Cup in bouldering starts this weekend. The first competition takes place in Hall, Austria.
There is a major change in the rules of the bouldering competitions this year. The reduction numbers of boulder problems in qualification to five. The semifinals and finals remains same - four boulder problems. Finals has now time limit only 4 munites, but if you begin climbing in the lest seconds, you can finish the entire attempt without time limitation. There is an inspection of each boulder problem for 2 minutes before the finals.
The number of continuing remains same, that means 20 competitors go on to semifinals and the best 6 to finals.
That is quite hard quota concerning of the still enlarging number of people who start. This year there are 85 men and 54 women from 23 states in Hall. The Czech Republic will be represented by: Martin Stranik, Tomas Mrazek, Stepan Stranik, Silvie Rajfova, Helena Lipenska, Nelly Kudrova.
Program:
Friday 18.4.
8:00 qualification women
15:00 qualification men
Saturday 19.4.
13:00 semifinals men and women
19:00 finals men and women
Registration
lezec.cz
The season of this year World Cup in bouldering starts this weekend. The first competition takes place in Hall, Austria.
The best of mountaineering, rock climbing and bouldering in Europe, 2007.
Many climbers are attracted by stunning granite walls of Val di Mello but recently more and more climbers are heading to its famous bouldering area. A good news for second group is that a new great bouldering guide book has appeared. 
On Easter Adam Ondra went bouldering in Cresciano and Chironica. His collection from only 4 days is unbelievable. 
A new piece of interesting information just arrived from Colorado.
