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By Dougald MacDonald / The Mountain World and 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. 11/20/09 - Colin Haley and Dave Turner turner pulled off a late season link-up of Yosemite's El Capitan and Half Dome in preparation for their Patagonia trips coming up this winter. 11/19/09 - Bavarians Max Dünßer, Reinhard Hones and Martin “Wusel” Schindele climbed a new nine pitch route at 7b (or 5.12b) at South Africa's impressive Yellowwood Amphitheatre. 11/18/09 - In early November a 14-year-old French climber, Enzo "Zozo" Oddo made a string of noteworthy ascents and added another 9a redpoint to his already impressive résumé. 11/15/09 - Slovenian alpinist Tomaz Humar, who seemed to have nine lives, has used up the last of them on a Nepalese mountainside. 11/13/09 - Britons Nick Bullock and Andy Houseman have climbed the much-eyed north face of Chang Himal (a.k.a. Wedge Peak, 6,802 meters/22,316') in far eastern Nepal. 11/12/09 - Slovenian climber Tomaz Humar is reportedly injured and stuck on the north face of Langtang Lirung (7,234 meters) in Nepal. 11/11/09 - In early November French climber Pierre Bollinger made the first ascent of an old project at the world famous, standard setting welded tuff cliffs of Oregon's Smith Rock State Park. 11/06/09 - Russian climbers Vitaly Gorelik and Gleb Sokolov completed a difficult and dangerous new line up the north face of Peak Pobeda, the highest summit in the Tien Shan mountains, in late August. 11/03/09 - The Swiss climbers Samuel and Simon Anthamatten and Michael Lerjen have completed the alpine-style first ascent of the south face of Jasemba (7,350m/24,114') in Nepal. (Updated - 11/11/09) 11/02/09 - 19-year-old Charlotte Durif from France has had an extraordinary few weeks of climbing: two 8c+ (5.14c) first ascents and a massive 8b+ (5.14a) onsight, all in France. 10/30/09 - French alpinists Yannick Graziani and Christian Trommsdorff have climbed the south spur of 7,140-meter (23,425-foot) Nemjung in Nepal. 10/26/09 - Adam Ondra, the 16-year-old from the Czech Republic, has completed his hardest route yet, and it was a first ascent: Marina Superstar (9a+/b, or 5.15a/b) at the Domusnovas area in southern Sardinia, Italy. 10/26/09 - Between October 16 – 21, Englekirk redpointed Leaning Tower’s Westie Face (V 5.13a/b AO, 9 pitches) after five attempts spread over three months and Washington Column’s Quantum Mechanic (V 5.13a, 15 pitches) on his second attempt; his first attempt was on October 18. (Updated - 10/30/09) 10/23/09 - Jeremy Aslaksen and Paul Gagner have climbed a very hard new aid route on the south face of King Fisher in the Fisher Towers of southeastern Utah. 10/23/09 - After months of effort Adam Taylor has redpointed The Golden Ticket (5.14d?) and it’s believed, by many, to now be the hardest sport climb in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. 10/22/09 - Jonathan Siegrist made the most of his first three days in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. 10/21/09 - Slovenians Rok Blagus, Luka Lindic, and Marko Prezelj have completed a hat trick of impressive new routes in the Bhagirathi group in northern India's Garhwal Himalaya. 10/20/09 - Matt Wilder completed a spectacular and dangerous 5.14a route in the Flatirons above Boulder, Colorado, and Matt McCormick redpointed a run-out 5.13c climb in the Adirondacks. 10/19/09 - Emanuel Moosburger of Innsbruck, Austria recently amassed an impressive ticklist during a seven-week trip to the sandstone bouldering mecca, Rocklands in South Africa. 10/15/09 - Sarah Seeger has redpointed Steinbock (8c or 5.14b) and is the first woman to climb a route of this grade in the Frankenjura — Germany's most famous, steep and tiny-pocketed limestone mecca. 10/13/09 - German climber Markus Bock has redpointed a 20 year old project in the Frankenjura that he has graded 9a+ or 5.15a. 10/12/09 - The Italian climber Jenny Lavarda has repeated Solo per Vecchi Guerrieri, a 150-meter route in the Dolomites with pitches of 5.12d, 5.12c, 5.13d, and 5.14c/d. 10/08/09 - The Swiss climber Cédric Lachat onsighted the Free Rider variation to the Salathé Wall (5.12d) on El Capitan in September. 10/07/09 - Tommy Caldwell and Jeremy Collins teamed up to dominate the fourth annual 24 Hours of Horseshoe Hell in Arkansas. |
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