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AAC Announces 2012 Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge Award Recipients
1/6/12 - The American Alpine Club has announced the 2012 Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge Award recipients. 1/6/12 - Shortly after Dave Graham opened a V14 near Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, Daniel Woods followed up with his own V14 first ascent. 1/4/12 - After a stint at the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, Dave Graham headed to Colorado, where he finished one of his boulder projects, called it Memory is Parallax, and stuck a V14 on it. 1/4/12 - During the past couple of weeks, various teams have completed several big new routes and variations in Argentinean Patagonia. 12/20/11 - In addition to all the hard 5.14 ascents going down, boulderers have also been cranking across the world. 12/20/11 - Ben Spannuth has done his second 5.14d with an ascent of The Golden Ticket in the Red River Gorge, Kentucky. 12/15/11 - Dan Beall has added a V14 to the Buttermilks, California, with his first ascent of Misdirection. 12/13/11 - Jon Simms and Jon Walsh have completed a long, testy new mixed route on the Stanley Headwall, west of Banff, Alberta. 12/12/11 - What's that saying—"when it rains, it pours"? 12/12/11 - Colin Haley had a productive start to his annual Patagonia season, completing a first ascent on Cerro Standhardt and a solo ascent of Aguja Innominata. 12/9/11 - Spanish climbers Jordi Corominas and Elena Parga have completed the probable first ascent of the southwest face of Cho Polu, a 6,695-meter (21,965') peak in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 12/8/11 - Climbing caught up with Adam Ondra for an interview after his send of Gioia (V16), a problem established by Christian Core, in Varazze, Italy. 12/8/11 - Following last February's first-ever winter ascent of any 8,000-meter mountain in the Karakoram, several powerful teams are headed to Pakistan this winter to attempt other 8,000-meter peaks in the coldest season. 12/5/11 - Phil Schaal added another V14 to his ticklist recently with Midnight Express in Boulder Canyon, Colorado. 12/5/11 - Dutch climber Jorg Verhoeven recently redpointed one of the Red River Gorge's hardest testpieces, Pure Imagination (5.14d). UPDATED: 11/29/11 - We caught up with Adam Taylor, a Red River Gorge local who recently fired off the direct start to RRG testpiece Southern Smoke (5.14c), suggesting 5.15a for the line. 11/29/11 - Daniel Woods, one of the world's strongest boulders, has moved into a new echelon of the sport: he flashed Entlinge (V14/15) in Murgtal, Switzerland. 11/28/11 - The 2011 Lead World Cup circuit drew to an end this past weekend in Barcelona, Spain, with Ramón Julian Puigblanque—and a three-way tie for the woman—standing atop the podium. 11/22/11 - Tommy Caldwell has abandoned this year's efforts to free-climb the Dawn Wall, the desperately hard line on the southeast face of El Capitan that he and Kevin Jorgeson have been attempting for several years. 11/21/11 - Sonnie Trotter has completed The Prophet (5.13d R, 13 pitches) on El Capitan in Yosemite, marking the route's second ascent after British climber Leo Houlding established the line in November 2010—and Trotter's first-ever El Cap route. 11/21/11 - Canadian Sean McColl and Korean Jain Kim took top honors at last night's Lead World Cup in Kranj, Slovenia. 11/17/11 - Americans David Gottlieb and Chad Kellogg have completed the probable first ascent of Pangbuk Ri (ca. 6,625m/21,735') in Nepal, via a steep route on the south face. 11/16/11 - Adam Ondra is reporting a V16 first ascent at one of his home crags in the Czech Republic called Terranova—his hardest problem yet. 11/12/11 - Ben Spannuth of Colorado has been spending time at the Red River Gorge, Kentucky, where he recently sent Southern Smoke and 50 Words for Pump (both 5.14c) back to back. 11/9/11 - Cédric Lachat, a Swiss climber, made the first ascent of Speed intégrale (5.14d), in Voralpsee, Switzerland. |
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