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 2003 Golden Piton Awards - Bouldering
The Golden Piton for bouldering in 2003 goes to Jason Kehl, for his unroped, crash-padded, highball ascent of Dave Graham’s two-bolt Rumney 5.14d (or V13?), The Fly. 2003 Golden Piton Awards - Traditional rock
Our vote for best effort of the year goes to Dean Potter and Steph Davis, for Epitaph, a 450-foot route on the Tombstone, near Moab, Utah. 2003 Golden Piton Awards - High-Altitude Mountaineering
Balancing style, stature, and purity of line, our vote for high-altitude climb of the season goes to the alpine-style ascent of the north buttress of Nuptse (7861 meters) by the Benegas twins Willie and Damien. 2003 Golden Piton Awards - Competition Climbing
Unbelievable is the word most people use to describe Sandrine Levet’s dual victories in both the bouldering and route events at December’s World Cup. The unprecedented feat is akin to a runner winning both the 100-meter sprint and the mile. 2003 Golden Piton Awards - Sport Mixed
Ines Papert of Germany set a new standard for women’s mixed climbing in 2003 when she repeated Mission Impossible (M11), near Courmayeur, Italy, a route that just two years earlier was thought to be the hardest in the world. 2003 Golden Piton Awards - Sport Climbing
The one 5.15a from 2003 that meets all criteria is the extension to La Rambla (8c+, 5.14c) at Siurana, Spain. It has loomed over aspirants at Siurana, one of Europe’s mega-crags, since Alex Huber climbed it in 1994. 2003 Golden Piton Awards - Big Wall Free Climbing
Despite exploration, runouts, and the wide spectrum of big, high-standard free climbing, the climb of the year was surely completed right here in the States, on El Capitan; Zodiac, the wall's most famous and emblematic nail-up, went free at 5.13d. Golden Piton Alpine Climbing
The Rockies, Alaska, the Caucasus, Patagonia — alpinists continue to comb the globe finding new lines to suffer for. 2003 Golden Pitons
Each January the editors at Climbing begin scouring the records, recollections, and rumors for the most impressive ascents of the past year. |
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