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Sharma Sends Neanderthal (5.15)
12/20/09 - Chris Sharma, reportedly super-close to completing his long-term project First Round, First Minute at Margalef, Spain, got snowed out of that crag and traveled to Santa Linya, where he proceeded to redpoint another mega-project: Neanderthal (tentatively given 9b/5.15b). 12/18/09 - Dan Corn and Kevin Mahoney attempted to ski the 8,000-foot south face of Denali this past spring. 12/16/09 - The search for two missing climbers on Mt. Hood in Oregon has been suspended because of high avalanche danger on the mountain. 12/11/09 - Canadian ice climber Guy Lacelle died Thursday in an avalanche in Hyalite Canyon, Montana, while climbing a snow gully between climbs. 12/09/09 - For the second year in a row, Jimmy Webb, a Chattanooga, TN, transplant finished first overall in the Men’s Open at the Southeast’s one and only Triple Crown Bouldering Series held at the Stone Fort finale last weekend. 12/07/09 - Martin Ploug and Kristoffer Szilas completed the first ascent of “Ren Zhong Feng” in Sichuan, China, south of the Minya Konka group. 12/02/09 - Stevie Haston flashed the granite roof crack Greenspit in northern Italy, first climbed by Didier Berthod and repeated a couple of times since. The route had been rated 5.14a. 12/01/09 - The young Chinese alpinists Yan Dongdong and Zhou Peng have climbed a direct new route on the south face of Siguniang (6,250 meters/20,505') in Sichuan Province, China. 11/25/09 - The indefatigable Pamela Pack has redpointed a 65-foot, overhanging offwidth and squeeze chimney in Zion National Park that she rated solid 5.13. 11/23/09 - The extraordinary Japanese explorer Tamotsu Nakamura and companions have completed another photographic expedition to the Nyainqentanglha East and Kangri Garpo regions of eastern Tibet. 11/20/09 - Colin Haley and Dave Turner turner pulled off a late season link-up of Yosemite's El Capitan and Half Dome in preparation for their Patagonia trips coming up this winter. 11/19/09 - Bavarians Max Dünßer, Reinhard Hones and Martin “Wusel” Schindele climbed a new nine pitch route at 7b (or 5.12b) at South Africa's impressive Yellowwood Amphitheatre. 11/18/09 - In early November a 14-year-old French climber, Enzo "Zozo" Oddo made a string of noteworthy ascents and added another 9a redpoint to his already impressive résumé. 11/15/09 - Slovenian alpinist Tomaz Humar, who seemed to have nine lives, has used up the last of them on a Nepalese mountainside. 11/13/09 - Britons Nick Bullock and Andy Houseman have climbed the much-eyed north face of Chang Himal (a.k.a. Wedge Peak, 6,802 meters/22,316') in far eastern Nepal. 11/12/09 - Slovenian climber Tomaz Humar is reportedly injured and stuck on the north face of Langtang Lirung (7,234 meters) in Nepal. 11/11/09 - In early November French climber Pierre Bollinger made the first ascent of an old project at the world famous, standard setting welded tuff cliffs of Oregon's Smith Rock State Park. 11/06/09 - Russian climbers Vitaly Gorelik and Gleb Sokolov completed a difficult and dangerous new line up the north face of Peak Pobeda, the highest summit in the Tien Shan mountains, in late August. 11/03/09 - The Swiss climbers Samuel and Simon Anthamatten and Michael Lerjen have completed the alpine-style first ascent of the south face of Jasemba (7,350m/24,114') in Nepal. (Updated - 11/11/09) 11/02/09 - 19-year-old Charlotte Durif from France has had an extraordinary few weeks of climbing: two 8c+ (5.14c) first ascents and a massive 8b+ (5.14a) onsight, all in France. 10/30/09 - French alpinists Yannick Graziani and Christian Trommsdorff have climbed the south spur of 7,140-meter (23,425-foot) Nemjung in Nepal. 10/26/09 - Adam Ondra, the 16-year-old from the Czech Republic, has completed his hardest route yet, and it was a first ascent: Marina Superstar (9a+/b, or 5.15a/b) at the Domusnovas area in southern Sardinia, Italy. 10/26/09 - Between October 16 – 21, Englekirk redpointed Leaning Tower’s Westie Face (V 5.13a/b AO, 9 pitches) after five attempts spread over three months and Washington Column’s Quantum Mechanic (V 5.13a, 15 pitches) on his second attempt; his first attempt was on October 18. (Updated - 10/30/09) 10/23/09 - Jeremy Aslaksen and Paul Gagner have climbed a very hard new aid route on the south face of King Fisher in the Fisher Towers of southeastern Utah. 10/23/09 - After months of effort Adam Taylor has redpointed The Golden Ticket (5.14d?) and it’s believed, by many, to now be the hardest sport climb in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. |
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