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U.S. National Bouldering Championships
2/21/07 - Daniel Woods and Alex Puccio repeated as the U.S. bouldering champions at the ABS 8 National Championship. 2/17/07 - On a quick trip to Sonora, California, Emily Harrington made an ascent of Burning Down the House, a 5.14b established by her coach, Justen Sjong, at the blocky limestone crag of Jailhouse. 2/17/07 - A small team of American women will head to Asia this summer to train Pakistani women in mountaineering skills. 2/13/07 - Hans Johnstone and Stephen Koch have climbed a 1,000-foot new mixed route on the Grand Teton’s lower North Face. 2/12/07 - A German-Venezuelan team established a 20-pitch free route up the North Pillar of Acopan Tepui in Venezuela in December. 2/07/07 - Evgeny Kryvosheytsev from Ukraine and Jenny Lavarda from Italy won the North Face Ice Climbing World Cup in Switzerland last weekend. 2/05/07 - Mugs Stump Award sponsors, Black Diamond Equipment, Patagonia, Climbing Magazine, Mountain Gear, and W.L. Gore, announce the recipients of the 2007 Mugs Stump Award. 2/05/07 - Slovenians Tomaz Jakofcic and Grega Lacen scraped up a major new variation on the North Face of Fitz Roy in Patagonia, then traversed the mountain in a brutal storm. 2/03/07 - Lisa Rands sent the high and hard This Side of Paradise (V10), making the fourth ascent of this problem in the Buttermilks, near Bishop, California. 2/01/07 - Chris Hunnicutt, a 32-year-old Salt Lake City climber, lost his life on Tuesday, January 30th while climbing Stairway to Heaven (WI5) in Provo Canyon. 1/11/07 - Bradford Washburn, one of the key figures of American mountaineering in the 20th century, died last night at a retirement home near Boston. He was 96. 1/31/07 - Benoît Dubois won the second Challenge Millet in Québec, leading 26 overhanging mixed climbs in three hours on the scruffy cliffs of Saint-Alban. 1/30/07 - Greg Child, Jared Ogden, and Mark Synnott have climbed a new, mostly free route on the overhanging northern prow of Mt. Roraima in Guyana. 1/27/07 - The first ascent of Chomo Lhari’s 6,000-foot Northwest Pillar by Slovenians Boris Lorencic and Marko Prezelj won the 16th Piolet d’Or, the annual prize awarded in France for the year’s “best” alpine climb. 1/25/07 - For the second time this season, an international team has claimed the first ascent of the highest unclimbed peak in Antarctica’s Sentinel Range. 1/23/07 - The Canadian-American trio of Chris Brazeau, Crystal Davis-Robbins, and Jon Walsh have climbed two probable new routes on peaks north of the Cerro Torre group in Patagonia. 1/22/07 - Free skier Chris Davenport has succeeded in an ambitious quest to ski all 54 of the Colorado 14'ers in less than 12 months. 1/19/07 - Access to Hueco Tanks State Historic Site, the world-class bouldering area outside El Paso, Texas, might be at risk with a proposed transfer of ownership of roughly 20 parks and historical sites in the Lone Star State. 1/18/07 - Two French teams managed near onsights of Logical Progression, a 27-pitch, 5.13a "sport climb" on northern Mexico's El Gigante, with Arnaud Petit onsighting all but one pitch over two long days. 1/17/07 - As a winter storm pounded the southern San Juan Mountains of Colorado, Ukrainian Evgeny Kryvosheytsev won the annual mixed-climbing competition at the 12th Ouray Ice Festival. 1/16/07 - Finally catching a break in a dreary winter, climbers leaped into action on British gritstone last week, completing two new lines and a very hard repeat. 1/12/07 - The American Alpine Club and the Mountain Institute have received a $150,000 grant from the Argosy Foundation to launch the Alpine Conservation Partnership (ACP), a program designed to protect and restore alpine ecosystems worldwide. 1/12/07 - Almost 13 years after making the first ascent of Ulvetanna, a striking 9,710-foot granite spire in Antarctica, a Norwegian team returned to Queen Maud Land to climb the tower’s vertical North Face. 1/11/07 - It's mid-season at Hueco Tanks again, and stuff's getting done. Like last year, the park has seen droves of visitors in 2006/2007 - some of the sport's leading climbers, like Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson, Jon Cardwell, and Sean McColl. 1/10/07 - New Englanders Dave Sharratt and Freddie Wilkinson climbed a new route up the South Face of Aguja Poincenot, a neighbor of Fitz Roy in Patagonia. |
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