The World Champion in lead climbing Tomas Mrazek and his friend Helena Lipenska returned from Spain climbing yesterday and wrote a short report according to it Tomas did 21 routes (8a to 8b+) on sight or flash, Helena 2x 8a PP, 7c on sight. ... full story
Try to look at the tip for ice climbing we tried this weekend at the artificial ice tower in ski resort at Tanvaldsky Spicak in Jizerske hory (Iser Gebirge), close to Jablonec, Nord Bohemia. ... full story
The climbing World Champion Tomas Mrazek will not in the end attend this year's Winter Olympic Games where the climbing was in the last moment contributed as additional program. ... full story
Ines Papert (DE) and Simon Wadeler (CH) won the World Cup competition in difficulty ice climbing today in Spicak, Czech Republic.
Ksenia Sdobnikova (RUS) was 2nd woman, Anna Torreta (ITA) 3rd and Markus Bendler (AUT) was 2nd man, Harald Berger (AUT) was 3rd.
Women:
4 Petra Muller (SUI)
5 Jitka Mazlova ( CZ)
6 Franziska Donhuber (DE)
7 Julia Oleynikova (RUS)
8 Jaroslava Melounova (CZ)
Men:
4 Yevgen Kryvo ... full story
There is a tip for a bit non traditional trip to winter Alps at three big walls. In the beginning of January we set out to weekend to explore three giant indoor climbing halls to Austria and Bavaria: in Innsbruck, Imst and Munich. ... full story
Look at the video from the Czech Championship in lead climbing shot on December 4th 2005 in Prague. We got the movie from Helena Lipenská and Tomas Mrazek. ... full story
Update - the list of the climbers and the schedule
Climbing will be at the 20th winter Olympic Games. It sounds nearly unbelievable, but that is the truth. ... full story
Two Slovaks are among the 9 mountaineers murdered in Pakistan
Two Slovaks are reported among the 9 mountaineers murdered in Pakistan this weekend. According to the Czech and Slovak climbing community they should be: Anton Dobeš a Peter Šperka ... full story
On Sunday 16. 6. 2013 at 18:00 CET we will release for free 25 min long "backstage movie", describing the idea of the whole project and also the making of the upcoming movie Change. ... full story
Czechs did first ascent on NW pillar Talung 7349m, Himalayas
Two Czechs Marek Holecek and Zdenek Hruby said today, thay had done the alpine style first ascent to the North West pillar of Talung (7349m) in Himalayas, Nepal. ... full story
Petrohradske Padani international bouldering competition
19th-21st April 2013
This year´s annual of the international bouldering open air competition Petrohradske Padani in Petrohrad, western Bohemia, Czech Republic, takes place on 19th-21st April 2013. ... full story
Our friend Michi Wohlleben is going to a great expedition for Dhaulagiri 8167m.
Johanna Stöckl, a German sport journalist made an interview with him. It is added in English together with a portrait of Michi. ... full story
Second wave of via ferrata set recalls within six months
Considerable deficiencies found in many via ferrata sets
A group of manufacturers issued last month a recall of certain via ferrata sets following a meeting of the UIAA (International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation) Safety Commission in Munich, Germany. A report was published on February 25th, 2013. ... full story
"Arev" Armenian First Ascent Festival, which was organized before on June 2009 and May 2011 by our club, intended to develop the rock climbing culture in Armenia, while at the same time promoting climbing at the local rock formations through the development of new routes. ... full story
Another annual of the Smichov Festival of Alpinism takes place this weekend in Prague on November 22nd-25th 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic. ... full story
A friend living in France has noticed that a French newspaper is reporting that Patrick Edlinger, one of the great free climbers of the 1980s, has died at age 52. ... full story