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Brits Climb Hard Ice Line in Nepal
10/31/06 - Got two weeks and want to put up a new route in Nepal? Try keeping up with Britons Jon Bracey and Nick Bullock, who pulled off a 3,000-foot-plus ice route to an unclimbed summit just nine days after landing at Lukla airport. 10/26/06 - Although an official investigation remains to be completed, it appears increasingly likely that a broken belay loop on Todd Skinner’s harness caused his death. 10/24/06 - Todd Skinner, one of the great American free-climbing pioneers of the late 20th century, has been killed on Leaning Tower in Yosemite Valley. 10/23/06 - A pair of Czech climbers has completed a new route to the summit of 20,700-foot Meru Central (aka the “Shark’s Fin”) in the Garhwal Himalaya of India. 10/20/06 - Scotland saw the ascent of its hardest sport route, on October 10, as Dave McLeod made a first ascent of Body Swerve (5.14b). 10/20/06 - Britons Tim Emmett and Ian Parnell have climbed a gigantic new route on 22,408-foot Kedar Dome in the Garhwal Himal area of northern India. 10/19/06 - In mid-September, Justen Sjong and Chris Weidner established the hardest free route yet on the 1,500-foot granite seacliffs of Devil Bay on the south coast of Newfoundland. 10/19/06 - Joe Kinder went on a sending spree in a little limestone crag in northern Utah called Causey, 45 minutes outside of Ogden, Utah, sending three 5.14 routes in three days of climbing. 10/18/06 - The Slovenian Pavle Kozjek has climbed a new route on the Southwest Face of 8,201-meter (26,906 feet) Cho Oyu in a solo single push from advanced base camp. 10/17/06 - Jamie Emerson grabbed a fall ascent of Rocky Mountain National Park's (RMNP) hardest boulder problem, Freaks of the Industry, on September 29, after a summer's-worth of off-and-on effort. 10/17/06 - On September 28, Jody Hansen of Boulder, CO made the second female ascent of Bush Pilot (V11) in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. 10/17/06 - Will Gadd has completed a seven-year-old project to establish a new free climb up the most daunting buttress on Yamnuska, the Canadian Rockies’ famed adventure crag. 10/13/06 - Patxi Usobiaga onsighted his second 5.14b, Pata Negra (Rodellar, Spain), on October 7. This route is a 120-foot, steep, endurance line that was first onsighted by Czech climber Tomás Mrázek in September 2005. 10/11/06 - On September 20th, Barbara Raudner made the third ascent of Keitos Palast (5.14b), in Höllental, Austria. 10/09/06 - Markus Bock has just redpointed a new route in Germany’s Frankenjura that he says is the hardest climb he has ever done, according to an email posted on www.moonclimbing.com. 10/06/06 - Stealing a last bit of summer, Bean Bowers, Greg Collins, and Hans Johnstone onsighted a 5.12 new route on the South Buttress of Mt. Moran in Grant Teton National Park on September 29. 10/06/06 - Matt Bosley has added a new start to a V11 boulder problem in southern New York to create what may be the first V14 in the area. 10/04/06 - A two-season effort in the Cirque of the Towers has produced the hardest reported route in Wyoming’s Wind River Range: a 5.12+ crack and face climb up the steep south face of popular Wolf’s Head peak. 9/29/06 - Starting in December, a Polish expedition will launch the country’s fifth attempt to climb 26,657-foot Nanga Parbat in winter. 9/29/06 - he HERA Women’s Cancer Foundation raised just over $134,000 for ovarian cancer research at their fifth annual Ovarian Cancer Climb for Life in Salt Lake City. 9/28/06 - On September 27, Daniel Woods made the first ascent of Mount Evans' now hardest boulder problem, Ode to the Modern Man (V14). 9/28/06 - Chasing rumors of stable late-season weather for rock climbing, a Slovenian expedition found plenty of storms but still managed some very notable ascents in Pakistan’s Trango Towers, including the first one-day ascent and first all-female ascent of Nameless Tower. 9/27/06 - The enormous West Face of North Howser Tower in the Bugaboos got its third free route this summer, as Ulysse Richard and Manuel Quiroga free-climbed the Seventh Rifle, the 34-pitch original full-length line on the face, established in 1971 by Chris Jones, Tony Qamar, and Galen Rowell. 9/27/06 - All climbers talk about karma, and when you make an international climbing trip to attempt a virgin peak you hope the good karma comes with. 9/26/06 - "Hey guys, Chris Sharma did his arch project in Mallorca today. He hasn’t named it yet — he’s still in the bar celebrating … ” read the email that filmmaker Josh Lowell wrote Climbing on September 26. |
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