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New Route in Nepal for French Team
11/26/07 - A four-man French team has climbed a difficult new route to a previously unclimbed subpeak of Ganesh V in Nepal. 11/20/07 - Rob Owens and Eamonn Walsh have climbed another big “alpine cragging” route in the Canadian Rockies - and possibly made the first ascent of a peak little more than 30 minutes' drive from Banff. 11/19/07 - Thirty-two years after its first ascent, one of Colorado’s most famous boulder problems was repeated twice in the same afternoon. 11/19/07 - In a topsy-turvy last stage of the lead-climbing World Cup, in Kranj, Slovenia, several of the main contenders for the 2007 overall title didn’t even make the finals. 11/14/07 - A World Cup is coming to Vail, Colorado, and this time it isn’t for skiers. The Teva Mountain Games will host the first Bouldering World Cup ever staged in the U.S. on June 6 and 7, 2008. 11/13/07 - Two more major new ice routes have been climbed in the Canadian Rockies, still weeks before the official start of winter. 11/12/07 - Paul Robinson and Alex Puccio won the third and final Mammut/EMS Bouldering Championships, at the Metrorock gyms outside Boston. 11/09/07 - Dani Andrada has given 9b (5.15b) to a link-up he has completed in the Alí Baba cave at Rodellar, Spain. 11/07/07 - A Swiss duo that had already climbed one major new route in the Canadian Rockies has added another big new route, along with several impressive repeats. Meanwhile, visiting French climber Daniel du Lac joined locals Eric Dumerac and Steve Holeczi to climb another new route. 11/07/07 - Forty feet high with no rope, no belayer, and only one decent hold—a left-foot nubbin. No problem for 23-year-old Kevin Jorgeson, who just nabbed the first ascent of Footprints (V9 or E6), on the North Face of Grandpa Peabody just outside Bishop, California. 11/06/07 - Peter Inglis and Joe Puryear have made the probable first ascent of Peak 5,965m, the second-highest peak in the Genyen Massif in western China. 11/06/07 - Two works about mountain tragedies—on Nanga Parbat and Denali—took the grand prizes at the Banff Mountain Festivals, which concluded on November 4. 10/30/07 - The Swiss climbers Simon Anthamatten and Ueli Steck are on an early-season rampage in the Canadian Rockies, climbing a significant new route and two major repeats over the last two weeks. 10/30/07 - Tomaz Humar from Slovenia has reportedly soloed the legendary South Face of Annapurna. It is not yet known which route he followed, or if he climbed a new route. 10/25/07 - Cory Richards, Dana Ruddy, and Ian Welsted have climbed a huge and dangerous new ice route in the Canadian Rockies. 10/25/07 - Raphael Slawinski and Eamonn Walsh made the first ascent of the West Face of 11,873-foot Mt. Alberta, one of the Canadian Rockies’ most daunting peaks, in mid-September. 10/22/07 - Valery Babanov and Sergey Kofanov have completed the northwest buttress of 7,710-meter Jannu in Nepal in a superb alpine-style ascent. 10/17/07 - A Spanish quartet, driven off Cerro Torre by falling ice, switched gears and quickly climbed a 1,000-meter new route on a neighboring peak. 10/16/07 - This year’s Petzl RocTrip and Rocktoberfest rocked the Red River Gorge in the lush forests of Kentucky on October 12-14. VIEW THE EVENT PHOTO GALLERY 10/16/07 - Vasya Vorotnikov has re-redpointed Jaws at Rumney, New Hampshire, after several key holds broke, giving it a new name and a whopping big grade: 5.15a. 10/15/07 - Chris Webb Parsons has made the second ascent of The Wheel of Life (V16) in the Grampians of Australia. 10/11/07 - American Ethan Pringle and Canadian Sean McColl have had a brilliant autumn at Rodellar, Spain. 10/10/07 - The Slovenian-American team of Marko Prezelj, Vince Anderson, and Steve House completed a highly productive visit to the Charakusa Valley in the Karakoram in Ausugst and September, despite a generally poor season of climbing conditions. 10/09/07 - Alexander and Thomas Huber have completed their second record-breaking climb of the Nose of El Capitan, climbing the 31-pitch route in 2 hours 45 minutes 45 seconds. 10/08/07 - Canadian Maxime Turgeon, whose partner was injured during an acclimatization climb, forged ahead all alone on Farol East, making the first ascent of the 6,350-meter peak in the Charakusa Valley of Pakistan. |
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