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Two Deaths in Grand Teton National Park
7/23/10 - Two deaths and more than a dozen injuries marked the past few days in Grand Teton National Park. 7/19/10 - This weekend saw competition greats gathering in Arco, Italy, for the RockMaster 2010, one of the most prestigious competitions in the climbing world. 7/16/10 - The newly-opened Stone Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, the largest climbing gym in the nation, inaugurated its second month with the 2010 SCS Youth National Championships, drawing more than 300 of the nation’s most talented young climbers. 7/13/10 - The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Lead and Speed World Cups wrapped up today in Chamonix, France, with Spain's Ramón Julian Puigblanque and French climber Charlotte Durif finishing first in the men's and women's lead comp. 7/9/10 - Recently, Madaleine Sorkin and Kate Rutherford completed the first female-team free ascent of Free Rider (VI 5.12d, 37 pitches), a four-pitch variation to the Salathé Wall that is the most popular free line on the main face of El Cap. 7/9/10 - A little over a week ago, Jacinda Hunter, 31, nabbed the FA of her project Fantasy Island, a 5.14b in Utah’s American Fork Canyon. 7/9/10 - In mid-June, Colin Haley and Bjørn-Eivind Årtun teamed up and established a new mixed route on the Southeast Face of Mount Foraker in Alaska. News link: Alex Honnold, most recently in the media for his speedy solo link-up of the Regular Northwest Face and the Nose, returned to El Cap with Sean Leary to do a triple link-up of the Nose, Salathé Wall, and Lurking Fear in a single day. 7/6/10 - The second-to-last Bouldering World Cup of 2010 transpired this past weekend in Sheffield, England, where a crowd of more than 20,000 amassed to watch the world's highest-ranked climbers battle it out. 6/28/10 - The fifth round of neck-and-neck Bouldering World Cup action continued last weekend in Eindhoven, Holland. 6/25/10 - On June 22, Alex Honnold did a solo link-up of the Regular Northwest Face (5.12a, 23 pitches) of Half Dome and the Nose (5.9, C1, 31 pitches), breaking several Yosemite speed records. 6/24/10 - After recovering from a serious shoulder injury sustained in February 2009 at ABS Nationals, Ethan Pringle has bagged the third ascent of The Wheel of Life at the Hollow Mountain Cave in the Grampians, Australia. 6/22/10 - Nominees have been announced for the Arco Rock Legends competition, which will have its fifth annual competition on Saturday, July 17 in Arco (Garda Trentino, Italy). 6/22/10 - This past weekend, Austrian Anna Stohr pulled off a gold at the Bouldering World Cup in Moscow, with Belgium's Chloe Graftiaux following close behind with the silver. 6/17/10 - Ryan Hokanson and Samuel Johnson have climbed one major new route and one new line without a summit in the Hayes group of the eastern Alaska Range. 6/9/10 - In an Alaska season when many teams have struggled to climb anything but moderate classics, a trio of Japan’s Giri Giri Boys have climbed two new routes in the Ruth Gorge and a major repeat on Denali. 6/5/10 - Daniel Woods and Chloe Graftiaux of Belgium took top honors at 2010's third Bouldering World Cup in Vail, Colorado. 6/3/10 - Stuart McAleese, Mark Thomas, and Mike “Twid” Turner have climbed an enormous granite prow in Baffin Island’s super-remote Stewart Valley. 6/2/10 - The Vail Valley Foundation has announced the full lineup and daily schedule of adventure sports, outdoor entertainment and arts for the 9th annual Teva Mountain Games this weekend, June 3 - 6 in Vail, Colorado. 6/1/10 - At the second Bouldering World Cup of 2010 in Vienna, Austria, Japan's Akiyo Noguchi and Momoka Oda ruled the women's podium while Austria's Kilian Fischhuber continued his reign in men's finals. 5/28/10 - On May 27 in Rocky Mountain National Park, Carlo Traversi completed the sixth ascent of Jade, a notoriously crimpy problem established in 2007 by Daniel Woods. 5/28/10 - With the completion of the Pan American Championship on May 23, American climbing has taken another step forward into the international scene. 5/27/10 - The Low Down captured a great interview with Dai Koyamada, who repeated Dave Graham’s Story of Two Worlds on May 13, a V15 established in Cresciano, Switzerland. 5/25/10 - Waves of climbers have summited Mt. Everest over the past four days from the south and north sides of the mountain, despite some high winds and snow. 5/24/10 - Alex Honnold and Ueli Steck are training to attempt a new speed record on the Nose in Yosemite. |
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