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By the Climbing Magazine Team
Hot Flashes reports the world's most up-to-date climbing news.
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By using Really Simple Syndication (RSS), Climbing.com can serve a feed to your news reader, blog, website, or personalized home page, automatically providing direct links to the very latest video, photos and news. 5/21/12 - Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold have pulled off an extraordinary feet of endurance free-climbing in Yosemite Valley. 5/22/12 - Kilian Fischhuber and Anna Stöhr took first in the latest Bouldering World Cup in their local town of Innsbruck, Austria, on May 19. 5/18/12 - Colorado's Eldorado Canyon, one of the centers of free climbing in the 1970s, rarely makes national news these days. 5/15/12 - Dave MacLeod—a prominent Scottish ice, mixed, and trad climber—made the second ascent of Daniel Wood’s Mystic Stylez (V15) on Sunday, May 13, in Magic Wood, Switzerland. 5/14/12 - In an incredible single-weekend effort, Jon Walsh and Josh Wharton claimed the second ascent of Infinite Patience on the Emperor Face of Mt. Robson, completing the 7,500-foot route in 18 hours from Berg Lake to the 12,972-foot summit. 5/9/12 - Daniel Woods has completed a new route in Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado, that he's estimating to weigh in at 5.14d. 5/7/12 - Two impressive new routes were added to Mt. Bradley in Alaska's Ruth Gorge in April, in what is shaping up to be an excellent season in the Alaska Range. 5/2/12 - Dave Graham reports that last week he made the third ascent of Paint it Black (V15) in Rocky Mountain National Park, and also established several first ascents in an area called Wild Basin. 4/30/12 - The 2012 International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Cup continued April 28 with a bouldering event in Vienna, Austria. 4/30/12 - A team of young French alpinists has completed two very difficult new routes in the Alaska Range. 4/27/12 - Martin Keller is proposing V15 for a new boulder problem in Chironico, Switzerland. 4/27/12 - The 2012 International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Cup series commenced with a bouldering event in Chongqing, China, on April 13, with Jakob Schubert and Akiyo Noguchi taking home the year's first gold medals. 4/26/12 - Paul Robinson is making the most of his time in Colorado: He's repeated Mirror Reality (V14) and made the second ascent of Paint it Black (V15), both Daniel Woods problems in Rocky Mountain National Park. 4/25/12 - Sasha DiGiulian has climbed her second 5.14d with Chris Sharma's Era Bella in Margalef, Spain. 4/24/12 - Silvia Vidal, a notable big wall soloist, spent 32 days on the Serranía Avalancha in Patagonia, Chile, to establish the 1,300-meter Espiadimonis (A4 5.10c). 4/24/12 - After 38 days in the jungle, Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villanueva, Stephane Hanssens, and Jean-Louis Wertz returned to civilization with two new first ascents on the Amuri Tepui in Venezuela, one of the steepest big walls in the world. 4/24/12 - Clint Helander has completed another remarkable trip to the Revelations, a group of alpine peaks on the far southwest end of the Alaska Range. 4/17/12 - Rob Pizem has made the first free ascent of The Frank Zappa Appreciation Society (5.13+), potentially the hardest established route in Escalante Canyon, Colorado. 4/12/12 - This week, James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini repeated Mezzogiorno di Fuoco (5.13d, seven pitches) at Punta Giradili in Sardinia, Italy. 4/12/12 - Johanna Ernst from Austria has climbed Open Your Mind (5.14c) in Santa Linya, Spain, marking her first of the grade and likely the first female ascent. 4/11/12 - Adding to the impressive onsights by Matilda Söderlund lately, Adam Ondra has onsighted Bella Regis (5.14c) at Arco, Italy. 4/11/12 - Young climber Cameron Hörst has had a very successful trip to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. 4/10/12 - UPDATED: Mathilda Söderlund has upped her own ante: she onsighted two 5.13d's yesterday with Zona 0 and Negoclee at Siurana, Spain. 4/9/12 - Nacho Sánchez has established his second V15 with Insomnio at Cova de la Gota in Crevillente, Spain. |
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