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Italian Frees 4-Pitch 5.14+
8/31/06 - The Italian Maurizio “Manolo” Zanolla has free-climbed a four-pitch line in the Dolomites with a crux at the top that he estimates between 5.14b and 5.14d. 8/30/06 - Kelly Cordes and Josh Wharton experienced an “excellent failure” on the striking North Ridge of 18,373-foot Shingu Charpa in Pakistan, climbing 45 pitches to complete the ridge but failing to reach the true summit. 8/29/06 - Canada’s Sean McColl was a double winner at the Youth World Championships in Imst, Austria, last weekend, taking gold in both lead climbing and speed in his age group. 8/29/06 - Many of you may be aware the John Bachar broke his neck in a tragic vehicle accident recently. 8/24/06 - This year, as a tradition since 1986, the world-renowned Rockmaster Climbing Comp will take place in Arco, Trentino, from September 1 through 3. 8/18/06 - On monday, August 14, John Bachar, his girlfriend Anastasia, and Acopa president Steve Karafa were involved in a car accident returning home from the 25th annual Outdoor Retailer Trade Show in Salt Lake City. 8/16/06 - In an effort to protect and preserve the environment climbers call home, CLIMBING Magazine announced today that it has become the first vertical publication in the world to switch permanently to 100-percent recycled paper... 8/16/06 - Basque brothers Eneko and Iker Pou have free-climbed an 850-foot route in Spain with a first pitch graded 5.14c. 8/15/06 - A legendary player in Hueco Tanks State Park passed away on August 2nd, at 66 years of age. Pedro Zavala, Jr., otherwise known as “Hueco Pete,” owned and operated the Hueco Tanks Country Store outside the park until 2000... 8/15/06 - Four Russian climbers were swept to their deaths on Sunday just below the summit of 28,251-foot K2, the world’s second-highest peak. 8/13/06 - Ethan Pringle and Angie Payne won the second annual USAC SENDFEST in Salt Lake City on August 11th at The Front climbing gym , taking home a top prize purse of $1,000 each. 8/11/06 - Robert Jasper has made a 12-hour, all-free ascent of a route on the right side of the Eiger’s north face at 5.13-, according to www.desnivel.es. 8/09/06 - Better known as an ice and mixed climber, Austria’s Harald Berger is also a master of Alpine mega-sport climbs. 8/08/06 - Everyone loves Sierra granite, but few love this much in a day. On August 5, Renan Ozturk and Jake Whitaker linked about 8,000 vertical feet of free climbing around Mt. Whitney during an 18-hour car-to-car outing. 8/08/06 - Frenchman Alex Chabot redpointed a severely overhung, new 5.14d in Deversé, dubbed Abyss. His route involves no manufacturing, and climbs out a 66-foot, 45- to 70-degree overhanging column. 8/07/06 - A Swiss-led international expedition has climbed a new route up the north side of 25,499-foot Gasherbrum East, along the China-Pakistan border in the Karakoram Range. 8/07/06 - Earlier this year, Joe Stock, Dylan Taylor, and Andrew Wexler made the first full-length traverse of the rugged Neacola Mountains in Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park. 8/03/06 - Ines Papert of Bavaria, Germany, completed the first female (and third overall) free ascent of the 1,500-foot, 11-pitch Camillotto Pellisier (5.13c/d), the most difficult route on the Cima Grande di Lavaredo, located in the Dolomites, on July 20. 8/02/06 - A Ukrainian trio has climbed the much-sought north ridge of 18,373-foot Shingu Charpa in the Karakoram Range of Pakistan. 7/31/06 - Italians Romano Benet and Nives Meroi summited K2 in Pakistan last week via the Abruzzi Spur, making the first climb of the world's second-highest peak since 2004. 7/30/06 - At Niagra Glen, native NY state hitman, 25-year-old Ian Irving, established arguably the hardest line, in Zozobra (V12), on April 30. 7/26/06 - merican papers were full of the successes of Floyd Landis in the Tour de France and Tiger Woods in the British Open, but there was a third American victory in Europe last weekend: Emily Harrington of Boulder, Colorado, won the annual Serre-Chevalier comp in France, her best result ever in international competition. 7/26/06 - Slovaks Gabo Čmárik and Jozef “Dodo” Kopold traveled to Pakistan’s Karakoram in early season in search of difficult ice, and they came away with two new routes, including the first ascent of the 7,000-foot northwest face of Uli Biaho. 7/26/06 - Jed Brown and Colin Haley have climbed an enormous new route on the Eiger-like north face of Mt. Moffit in Alaska. 7/26/06 - Ammon McNeely, Ivo Ninov, and Dean Potter raced up El Capitan’s Reticent Wall (VI 5.7 A5) in 34 hours 57 minutes on July 12-13. |
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