Although it is fast becoming Spring and most of us are looking forward to dry pitches of steep rock, here is some info on some local ice climbing. It is near the little village of Oldrichov, in the Jizersky Mountains. ... full story
The on-line interview with Tomáš Mrázek - World Champion, winner of the World Cup 2004, and climber of the year according to the international climbing site 8a.nu, has just finished.... full story
We got a new amazing story, pictures and video from mather of the Czech fenomenal boy, 12 year Adam Ondra, about his trip to Osp, Slovenia, where he climbed e.g. 8b OS and 8b+ RP. ... full story
We would like to apologize to our readers who ask for stories, but frankly we do not want to talk about it a lot - the tragedy in South Asia that is - because it was simply horror. ... full story
A Poetic article about a mystic experience with an old man. He was a climber in Rathen (a sandstone area in Saxon Germany) next to Czech border. It originally appeared on the Czech version of this site www.Lezec.cz . ... full story
Watch Adam Ondra, nearly 12 (born Feb 5, 1993), from Brno (Czech Republic) climb 8c - story, photos and video.
More in article from his parents: ... full story
The World Champion and the winner of the World Cup 04 in climbing Tomas Mrazek and his partner Helena Lipenska just have escaped from the lethal tsunami today in Thailand. ... full story
Dec 9 2004 v 6.15 am CET ( 9.15 am in Africa) the mountain alowed to Miroslav Caban to reach a summit of Kilimanjaro 5963m, e.g. the fith summit that Miroslav reached. ... full story
Legendary Czech climber and mountaineer Frantisek Kutta died after a long disease on November 18th 2004 at his age of 81. He had funeral on November 21st in Prague, ... full story
Many parts of High Tatra Mountains areas were declared natural disaster areas after a savage storm killed two people and left a trail of damage across the national Park. ... full story
Flavio Crespi (ITA) in final route of World Cup competition in difficulty climbing, Brno, Czech Republic, 12-13/11/2004. Flavio Crespi was winner of this competition. ... full story
Czech distributor of Camp via ferrata sets has sent recently the statement that the via ferrata sets by Camp are safe. The statements had reacted on several recalling actions announced by several other producers and distributors after an accident in Alps in Europe this summer. ... full story
Film festival Poprad (SK):Grand Prix goes to Poland
Baumgartner got the prize just while he jumped from stratosphere
Grand Prix of the XX. International Festival of the Mountain Films in Poprad, the main resort in High Tatras, Slovakia, was granted to the Polish film Declaration of Immortality of the director Marcin Koszałka. ... full story
Mountaineer Leopold Sulovsky continues in elections to Senat
Mountaineer Leopold Sulovsky, who as the 1st Czech climbed to top of Mount Everest, won the first round of the elections to Senate of the Czech Parliament and will continue to the 2nd round in one week. ... full story
Dear valued users, customers and business partners, We, the Czech manufacturers of climbing equipment, feel it is important to issue the following joint statement after the tragic accident of August 5th, 2012, ... full story
The new highest artificial climbing route in Czech Republic has been opend this month at the new climbing gym FreeSolo in Prague 11 - Chodov (Jizni Mesto). The route has 35m on the outdoor chimney. ... full story
Several Czech mountain equipment manufacturers has issued safety recall of the some types of via ferrata sets after a death accident in Tyrolean Alps on the foreign goods of similar construction. ... full story
International Mountaineering Film Festival with Silvia Vidal
The Polish film Deklaracja nieśmiertelności (Declaration of Immortality) won the Grand Prize on International Mountaineering Film Festival 2012 in Teplice nad Metuji, CZ. The winners of the boulder Czech Cup were Stepan Stranik and Nelly Kudrova. ... full story
Premiere of film Piskari (Sandmen), bigwall expert from Calalunia Sílvia Vidal and more of climbing movies, guests and actions is scheduled on this year Festak, that is the 29th International Mountaineering Film Festival (MHFF- nicknamed Festak), that begins next Thursday. ... full story
EYC in Pieve (ITA): Czech got gold, silver and bronze
Czechs young climbers Veronika Scheuerova, Jan Kriz, Jan Dosedel and Miroslav Dosedel got 2 golden, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals on the European Youth Cup EYC in Pieve (ITA) in speed climbing last weekend. ... full story
Jorg Verhoeven (NED) and Momoka Oda (JAP) won World Cup in lead climbing in Imst, Austria) this weekend. From the Czechs the best was Tereza Svobodova on 32nd position among women. ... full story
Czech Mrs. mountaineer Zuzana Hofmanova died on Broad Peak
Zuzana Hofmannova, one of the Czech best woman mountaineers died on July 31st, 2012 when she did not come back from the summit of Broad Peak, her 4th 8000 meters high mountain. The sad news was published on the expedition site: ... full story
Czech mountaineer and politician (Member of Czech Parliament and ex mayor of Prague) Pavel Bém with Slovak mountaineer Peter Hámor reached the summit of K2 (8 611 m) in Karakoram on August 1st 2012. ... full story