Czech World Champion Tomas Mrazek is reported to came to Santa Linya, Catalunia, Spain to contribute the informal meeting of the world climbing elite incl. US Chris Sharma or Czech junior Adam Ondra who climb there variuos 9a´s. Tomas did quickly his first 8c+´s.
The 2nd World Cup competition 2008 in ice climbing for difficulty took place in Busteni, Romania this weekend with Czech participation: Jitka Mazlova was 8th among women, Lucie Hrozova was 9th and Silva Rajfova 11th. Stanislav Hovanec finished on 18th place among men.
Poles successful in bouldering competition in Liberec, CZ
The Polish climbers succeeded on the bouldering competition in Liberec, North Bohemia, Czech Republik, Makak LBC, that took place there on January 26th, 2008.
Adam Ondra climbed yesterday another 9a in Spanish area Santa Linya. The route names Fuck the System, 9a and Adam did it in 3rd try. Adam send the info via sms to his father, who posted it to CzechClimbing.com last night.
Adam Ondra: first ascent Schengen 11- in home Karst (CZ)
In spite of rather not pleasant weather in Central Europe, Czech youngster Adam Ondra has recorded the first ascent of his route 11-, that he had sent the last Saturday (Jan 26, 2008) in home Sloup, the most popular limestone area, in Moravian Karst, close to Brno, (East of Czech).
Slovak top hight altitude mountaineer Dodo Kopold is according to the web site MountEverest.net among the ten (7th place) of the most successful mountaineers of the world in 2007.
Silva Rajfova was 12th and Jiri Pelikan 33rd as the best Czech climbers on the first this year competition of the World Cup in difficulty ice climbing, that took place last week (18.-20.1.2008) in Daone, Italy.
Adam Ondra and Nelly Kudrova won the first Czech lead comp
Adam Ondra and Nelly Kudrova won the first from the this year Czech ranking competitions in lead climbing in Police nad Metuji (North East Bohemia, close to Adrspach) on Saturday Jan 12, 2008.
Dead Sherpa was not member of the Prague Mayor expedition 07
The Czech mountaineering magazine Lide a hory wrote that the Sherpa who died last year during the Prague Mayor Pavel Bem ascent to Mount Everest was not member of his expedition but he was from an Italian expedition.
Expedition & Himalayan Festival - Grenoble, France
The Expedition Festival, witch is probably the only specific expedition meeting in Europe, will take place in French Grenoble and La Grave - La Meije (a very famous place for mountaineering) from 17th to the 20th January 2008.
Czech World Champion Tomas Mrazek is reported to came to Santa Linya, Catalunia, Spain to contribute the informal meeting of the world climbing elite incl. US Chris Sharma or Czech junior Adam Ondra who climb there variuos 9a´s. Tomas did quickly his first 8c+´s.
The local top climber Dani Andrada on his blog reported, that Tomas Mrazek came on Tuesday and already climbed the route "Novena puerta" 8c+ and web 8a.nu contributed the information about Tomas had sent "Blumo" 8c+, too.