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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. 2/9/12 - Climbing pioneer Herb Conn passed away in his home near Custer, South Dakota, on February 1, at the age of 91. 2/9/12 - The 2011 Guy Lacelle Pure Spirit Award is being presented to crack climber extraordinaire Jean-Pierre "Peewee" Ouellet of Québec. 2/9/12 - The Muir Valley Nature Preserve (MVNP), a major climbing area in the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, is in danger of closing. 2/7/12 - During a trip to Red Rock, Nevada, Alex Johnson pulled off an ascent of Lethal Design (V12). 2/6/12 - Carlo Traversi and Paul Robinson have made the fourth and fifth ascents of the new Colorado problem, Memory is Parallax (V14). 2/6/12 - Finnish climber Nalle Hukkataival has made the first ascent of a problem he calls V14 in the Marlanval sector of Fontainebleau, France. 2/6/12 - A Russian expedition attempting the first ascent of K2 in winter has been called off after climber Vitaly Gorelik died of heart failure in base camp. 2/3/2012 - Ryan Brooks and Josh Hurst have completed a beautiful four-pitch mixed line on the towering cliffs above Lake Willoughby in Vermont. 2/3/12 - Alex Honnold, Will Stanhope, and Paul McSorley traveled to the remote desert of Baja California in late January and came away with two remarkable free climbs. 2/2/12 - Austrian climber David Lama recently free climbed the southeast ridge of Cerro Torre (aka the Compressor Route) in Patagonia shortly after Jason Kruk and Hayden Kennedy's ascent—after the pair chopped more than 100 of Cesare Maestri's bolts from the headwall. 2/1/12 - Australian Chris Webb Parsons has repeated Hueco Tanks' Desperanza (V15). 2/1/12 - Longtime New England climber Mark Richey will receive the Robert and Miriam Underhill Award, the American Alpine Club's honor for lifetime achievement, at the club's annual dinner in Boston on March 3. 1/30/12 - Canadian Sean McColl has made a one-day ascent of the Fontainebleau V14 Kheops Assis in the Cuvier Rempart sector. 1/27/12 - French climber Robert Paragot will be the fourth recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award presented at the annual Piolets d'Or festivities in Chamonix, France, and Courmayeur, Italy, in March. 1/26/12 - Hayden Kennedy and Jason Kruk recently completed a "fair means" ascent of the southeast ridge of Cerro Torre (aka the Compressor Route); the pair climbed without using any of Cesare Maestri's controversial bolts. 1/25/12 - German climber Sarah Seeger has climbed her first V12 with Kalte Sophie, in the Frankenjura. 1/25/12 - British climber Tom Bolger recently redpointed Fabela pa la enmienda (5.14d) in the cave at Santa Linya, Spain, ticking his fifth route of the grade. 1/24/12 - Alizée Dufraisse from France has made the first female ascent of La Reina Mora (5.14c/d) in Siurana, Spain, her first of the grade. 1/24/12 - Cerro Torre in Patagonia has been the scene of several dramatic developments in recent days. 1/17/12 - Hayden Kennedy (U.S.) and Jason Kruk (CAN) have completed a "fair means" ascent of Cerro Torre's southeast side, according to a Facebook post by Colin Haley, who watched some of their climb through a telephoto lens. 1/16/12 - Young French climber Enzo Oddo has redpointed La Rambla (5.15a) in Siurana, Spain. 1/12/11 - Paul Robinson has made the first ascent of one of his hardest problems ever: Meadowlark Lemon in Gateway Canyon, Nevada, in Red Rock Canyon. 1/11/12 - Spanish climber Iker Pou has made the first ascent of Nit de bruixes, at the l'Ermitage sector at Margalef, Spain, for which he's proposing 5.15a. 1/9/12 - Japanese climber Dai Koyamada has established what he thinks merits V15 at the crag Toyota in his home country. |
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