Sad news item: Zdeno Zibrín, the legendary Slovakian mountaineer died - on Wednesday September 29th after a long and heavy decease, at age of 73. The funeral is on Monday October 4th at 3 pm in Brezno, Slovakia.
November 16, 2004
Fred Rouhling has completed his fourth new route rated 9a or harder. Mandallaz Drive (9a) is the first extremely difficult
new route by Rouhling in eight years. The climb is at d’Allonzier la Caille, near Rouhling’s new home in Haute-Savoie, south of Geneva.
Rouhling made the news in the early 1990s because his first 5.14-plus new route, Hugh, was so blatantly chipped — and because of the monstrous, all-points-off dyno the climb requires. But he really became a center of controversy when he gave the unprecedented grade of 9b (5.15b) to his climb Akira in southwestern France. Established in 1995, Akira is unrepeated, and nearly a decade later no one has graded another climb 9b.
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UK climbing.com has reported that Markus Bendler had accomplished a new 9a at Schleier Wasserfall!
Sad news item: Zdeno Zibrín, the legendary Slovakian mountaineer died - on Wednesday September 29th after a long and heavy decease, at age of 73. The funeral is on Monday October 4th at 3 pm in Brezno, Slovakia.
International Championship of Poland in sport climbing in town of Tarnów (16-17th October), invitation and program.
