Bernd Arnold christens Czech book: Climbing in Saxony
German (Saxon) climbing legend Bernd Arnold christened the new book Lezeni v Sasku (Climbing in Saxony) at last weekend's release party. The book was compiled from several years worth of articles on www.lezec.cz (the Czech version of CzechClimbing.com) written by Jarda Marsik. ... full story
Earlier this month the RRGCC (Red River Gorge Climber's Coalition) and Petzl joined forces to organize what was one of the largest outdoor climbing events since Konstein. Huh? ... full story
Maybe you think that Pilates is for joga-mat-carrying, twenty-something single girls who eat granola in the morning and not much else the rest of the day. But Pilates is also a great way to get in shape for climbing. ... full story
Rost'a recently wrote in his diary here on lezec.cz the FA of what is to be the hardest boulder in CZ- Posledni Mazoret, which he graded as 8C. Rost'a is currently ranked number one on both our site and 8a.nu for bouldering. ... full story
Prague Mayor Bem released his film from his ascent on Everest
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UPDATE: The full version of the film released Prague Mayor Pavel Bem presented his own movie from his ascent to Mount Everest. The trailer from the film which was this week presented in festival Tourfilm in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad, Czech Republic) was published by the Czech general news portal iDNES. ... full story
This year the World Championship in climbing after moving from Marbela has moved to the other end of Spain to Avilés. After our Sunday's arrival we attended the opening ceremonial, which was a bit boring. Already the following day there were three qualification routes in lead climbing awaited for us. ... full story
Martin Stranik 2nd in boulders, Tomas Mrazek 3rd in lead
Info from World Championship in climbing, Avilés (ESP) 2007: Czech Martin Stranik was 2nd in bouldering tonight! Dmitry Sharafutdinov (RUS) and Anna Stohr (AUT) win. ... full story
Rock Master: Tomas Mrazek 3rd, and 1st in after Duel
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The news from Rock Master: Ramon Julian Puigblanque (ESP) and Angela Eiter (AUT) win, Tomas Mrazek (CZE) was 3rd. But Tomas Mrazek won the after competition Duel. Silva Rajfová was in bouldering 5th, same as Libor Hroza who finished in speed on 5th place. UPDATE +Legends... full story
Czech climber Honza Riha is probably the second blind person to climb El Capitan in Yosemite, California via the Nose (V 5.9 C2, or 5.13+ free). ... full story
The Canadian film Asiemut about a bicycle tour across Asia won the main prize of the International Mountaineering Film Festival in Teplice nad Metují 2007 (North of Czech Republic) today. ... full story
Adam Ondra wins lead comp in Junior World Championship Ecuador
UPDATE +photos Adam Ondra (14) won the Junior World Championship in lead climbing in Ibarra, Ecuador, this weekend. Silva Rajfová finished 5th in her category, and Martin Stráník 6th in his. ... full story
Free climbing perhaps the hardest bigwall route in the South Hemisphere is the main task of the expedition Karambony 2007, which French web Kairn.com organized to Tsaranoro in Madagascar with the participation of Francois Legrand and other world-class climbers. ... full story
Adam Ondra recorded hard ascents in Switzerland and Germany
Adam Ondra recorded yesterday to his climbing log on our web site several hard ascents in Switzerland and Germany. Hi did Barracuda 11-/11 OS on 22nd July in Kaitersberg, Germany, just behind Czech border and Gimmel Express 8c+ OS in Gimmelwald, Switzerland couple days before. ... full story
World Cup in speed and lead climbing 2016 Villars, SUI
Czech women Gabriela Vrabliková finished 26th at semifinals of the World Cup competition in lead climbing in Villars, Switzerland today. Libor Hroza finished last night 11th in 1/8 finals of the WorldCup speed climbing there. ... full story
World Cup in speed and lead climbing 2016 Chamonix, France
Czech Libor Hroza got silver medal on the World Cup speed climbing competition in Chamonix, France today. Other Czech Jan Kriz finished on 6th place. Czech girl Gabriela Vrablikova finished 27th in the semifinals of lead climbing competition there. ... full story
Czech Martin Stráník finished the 7th on World Cup competition in bouldering in Vail, USA today. He did 2t10 4b18 result in semifinals. Kokoro Fujii (JPN) and i women Megan Mascarenas (USA) won. ... full story
Martin Stráník and Petra Růžičková won 3nd round of Rock Point Czech Cup in bouldering 2016 today in Ostrava. Štěpán Stráník and Klára Halmo were 2nd, and Michal Běhounek and Karina Bílková 3rd. ... full story
Czech Martin Stráník finished the 6th on World Cup competition in bouldering in Innsbruck, Austria today. He could not reach any top or bonus hold in the finals Before he was 4th in the semifinals (2t2 4b4). Jongwon Chon (KOR) and Shauna Coxsey (GBR) won. ... full story
Czech Martin Stráník did no top in semfinals in World Cup bouldering competition Navi Mumbai (India) and and could not continue to finals. He ended on the 19th place. Japanese Kokoro Fujii and Miho Nonaka won. ... full story
Martin Stráník and Eliška Vlčková won 2nd round of Rock Point Czech Cup in bouldering 2016 today in Prague. Stefan Bednar (Slovak) and Daniela Kotrbová were 2nd, and Štěpán Stráník and Karina Bílková 3rd. ... full story
Czech Libor Hroza got silver medal and ended on 2nd position on the World Cup speed climbing competition in Nanjing, China today. He had 2x false starts in the finals, so Reza Alipourshenazandifar from Iran won. ... full story
Czech Libor Hroza got silver medal and ended on 2nd position on the World Cup speed climbing competition in Chongqing, China today. He had 2x false starts in the finals, so Dmitrii Timofeev (RUS) won. Libor Hroza continued from 1/2-finals and from 1/4 finals with the best time from all climbers 5.83 seconds. ... full story
Martin Stranik got to semi-finals, but was late in isolation
Czech Martin Stranik got to semi-finals of the World Cup bouldering competition in Kazo, Japan, but was late in isolation and could not start in the semi-finals today. ... full story
Czech Martin Stráník got silver medal and ended on 2nd position on the World Cup bouldering competition in Meiringen, Switzerland today. ... full story
Czech junior Matej Burian (male category A) was 4th in the European Youth Cup competition in speed climbing 2016 in Tarnow, Poland, today. ... full story
Look at video with silver Jakub Konecny on Czech Cup lead climbing competition on Saturday in Prague. Jakub Konecny (16 years) the only one who could climb to almost same height as Adam Ondra. He fell about a hold and half below. ... full story