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Kurt Albert Dead at 56
9/29/10 - Kurt Albert died on September 28 as the result of injuries from a fall on a via ferrata route in Germany three days earlier. 9/27/10 - Following a strong summer of multiple Bouldering World Cup wins and podium finishes, Anna Stohr has become the second woman in the world to send a confirmed V13: Riverbed in Magic Wood, Switzerland. 9/24/10 - News link: On September 21, Paul Robinson climbed The Never Ending Story (V14) in Magic Wood, Switzerland, on his second try that day. 9/21/10 - In late August, Bernd Zeugswetter, Hjördis Rickert, and Greg Corliss established a new route near Mt. Whitney in the Sierra Nevada. 9/14/10 - On Sunday, September 12, Jonathan Siegrist realized a longtime dream: an ascent of Kryptonite (5.14d) at the Fortress of Solitude in western Colorado. 9/13/10 - The World Youth Championships transpired this past weekend in Edinburgh, Scotland, where more than 430 competitors gathered from almost 40 different countries. 9/10/10 - News link: After nine days of climbing over six months, Paul Gagner and Jeremy Aslaksen have established a new aid route on the Titan in the Fisher Towers, Utah: Gimp Warfare (5.9, A3, eight pitches). 9/7/10 - News link: Czech climber Adam Ondra has opened two new routes that were bolted by Frenchman Sylvain Millet in the Biographie sector of Céüse. 9/2/10 – News link: On April 27, Korean Oh Eun-sun summited 26,545-foot Annapurna, and news stories worldwide declared she was the first woman to climb all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks. 9/7/10 — As the summer alpine season draws to a close, hard boulder problems continue to be climbed at Colorado’s latest hotspot: Lincoln Lake (aka Woverineland) below the road to Mt. Evans. 8/30/10 - Chris Weidner and Bruce Miller have completed a new free line up the center of the Diamond on Longs Peak in Colorado. 8/30/10 - Spaniard Patxi Usobiaga and Korean Jain Kim topped the men's and women's podium in lead climbing this past weekend in at the World Cup in Chuncheon, Korea. 8/30/2010 - Norwegian climber Magnus Midtbö has repeated Dani Andrada's 5.15b sit-start extension to Alí Hulk in the Alí Baba cave in Rodellar, Spain. 8/25/10 - Paul Robinson has made the second ascent of Fred Nicole's Monkey Wedding (V15) in Rocklands, South Africa, which Nicole established in 2002. 8/24/10 - Peter Croft and Matt Ciancio linked four full-length routes on the Incredible Hulk, a steep, 1,200-foot granite wall in the northern Sierra Nevada, in a long day of climbing in late July. 8/22/10 - Colin Haley and Mikey Schaefer have completed the first ascent of the Diablo Traverse on the Devil's Thumb massif on the Stikine Icecap region. 8/23/10 - On Saturday, August 21, Belgian climber Chloé Graftiaux died after falling from the South Face of Aiguille Noire de Peuterey in the Mont Blanc. News link: Fifteen-year-old French crusher Enzo Oddo has repeated Chris Sharma's Realization (5.15a) in Céüse (this was his seventh route of 5.14d or harder). 8/16/10 - On July 30, Alex Honnold added a Squamish enchainment to his impressive résumé of link-ups. 8/11/10 - Swiss climbers Stephan Siegrist and Dani Arnold and German Thomas Senf made the first winter ascent of Torre Egger, a 2,685-meter peak in Argentine Patagonia next to Cerro Torre. 8/5/10 - The United Bouldering Championship’s 2010 tour has completed its second of three stops at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market in Salt Lake City. 8/5/10 - In mid-July, brothers Nicolas and Olivier Favresse, Sean Villanueva, and Ben Ditto established The Devil's Brew, an 850-meter route on the Seagull Wall, a steep rock face on the west coast of Greenland. 8/2/10 - As the 2010 Bouldering World Cup season came to an end last weekend in Munich, Czech wunderkind Adam Ondra took the gold for the men, while Japan's Akiyo Noguchi topped the medal platform for the women, making this year her second consecutive BWC victory. 7/30/10 - A Lead Climbing World Cup will take place in the United States for the first time in about two decades in the fall of 2011, according to a provisional schedule of the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC). 7/28/10 - When he was 13, just heading into his freshman year of high school, Erik Weihenmayer lost his eyesight, impeding his ability to play baseball, soccer, and basketball—some of the things that define boys in their teenage years. |
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