9.7. at 03:15 am local time two Slovaks Peter Šperka and Peter Kovác reached the top of Broad Peak as the members of Expedition of Tatras Rescuers Broad Peak 8047 lead by Peter Šperka.
Results men: 1. David Lama (AUT), 2. Jérôme Meyer (FRA), 3. Kilian Fischhuber (AUT), 4. Tomáš Mrázek (CZE)
Meyer has already won the World Cup 2006.
Women: 1. Olga Bibik (RUS), 2. Julia Abramchuk (RUS), 3. Juliette Danion (FRA).
Tomas Mrazek continues to finals from 1st place. Silva Rajfova ended 15th, Helena Lipenska 17th.
Tomas Mrazek continues to Saturdays semifinals, the another Czech Jiri Pribil does not.
Results men: 1. Jerome Meyer (FRA), 2. Kilian Fischhuber (AUT), 3. Tomáš Mrázek (CZE)
Women: 1. Juliette Danion (FRA), 2. Anna Stöhr (AUT). 3. Julia Abramchuk (RUS).
Tomáš Mrázek continues to finals. Andrej Chrastina (SVK) ended 17th, Peter Doležaj (SVK) 20th.
Semifinals women: Helena Lipenská 9th, Silva Rajfová 18th.
Men will climb semifinals in a while. There are Tomáš Mrázek, and Slováks Andrej Chrastina and Peter Doležaj. The second Czech Ji
Smichov´s Festival of Alpinism continues it's tradition and will take place on 24- 26 November 2006 in Prague, again in The National House in Smichov (Národní dům na Smíchově).
The 8th Czech who reached Mount Everest was David Fojtík. He was on the top on May 18th 2006 from the North side without oxygen. The expedition had only two members, David´s counterpart was his friend Miloš Palacký.
The lead finals was canceled because of the storm and raining, the ranking from semifinals decided: 1st Lama, 2nd Millet, 3rd Voerhoven, 4th Mrázek.
Ženy: 1st Eiter, 2nd Levet, 3rd Sarkany.
Climbing is one great outdoor sport that doesn't harm the nature. Rock climbers do not, after all, damage the ecology of cliffs and routes they scale!
Research has repeatedly shown that climbing routes have half the plant richness of unclimbed cliffs. These studies have given climbers a bad rap and led many reserves to put their cliffs off limits. Two canadian reserchers Kathryn Kuntz and Doug Larson from the University of Guelph have sampeled data concerning cliffs vegetation.
Kuntz and Larson deduced that the plants are looking for is what climbers don't want. Plant roots break up the rock, making climbing perilous. So rather than climbers damaging the ecology of the rock face, they select bare cliffs in the first place.
Despite the probe of science, in order to define climbers Eco-friendly and to say that their impact is minimal on the environment the key word is
RESPECT!
In fact we should consider the litter that some of us leave at the bottom of the crags, wild camping etc.
Therefore... a good purpose for summer holydays is to live the environment where we climb (and not only that!) better than how we found it!
Let's start giving the right example in order to make climbers respected in the general opinion and preserve our right to climb our lovely clifs and boulders!