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Co-op Donating Up to $350K to Save Skaha
4/12/07 - Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), the major Canadian outdoor retailer, will donate up to $350,000 CAN to help preserve Skaha Bluffs, the superb crags and unique ecosystem near Penticton, British Columbia. 4/10/07 - Air Force Captain Mike Anderson has free-climbed another trio of long climbs in Zion National Park. By far the most prolific recent activist on these massive sandstone walls, Anderson now has done 10 first free ascents in Zion since 2004. 4/06/07 - Which woman has climbed more 5.14b routes than anyone except Josune Bereziartu (who’s in a class of her own)? It’s not Liv Sansoz or Beth Rodden or Martina Cufar. 4/06/07 - Teton hardmen Greg Gollins and Hans Johnstone have made the first winter ascent of the North Ridge of Mt. Owen, one of the longest climbing routes in Grand Teton National Park. 4/03/07 - The American Alpine Club presented its annual award for outstanding mountaineering achievement, the Robert and Miriam Underhill Award, to alpinist Carlos Buhler, at the club's annual meeting and Mountain Fest in Bend, Oregon. 4/02/07 - A Ukrainian brother and sister won the first Bouldering World Cup of 2007, in Erlangen, Germany. 3/31/07 - Two American Alpine Club grant programs have selected nine teams for a total of $18,000 in grants, backing expeditions from Greenland to Tibet. 3/27/07 - Fitz Cahall, James Q Martin, and Albert Newman completed the first free ascent of Tooth Rock, a 1,600-foot-high sandstone monolith in the Vermilion Cliffs near Lee’s Ferry, Arizona. 3/21/07 - Japan’s Masatoshi Kuriaki summited 17,400-foot Mt. Foraker in the Alaska Range on March 10, completing the first solo winter ascent of the sixth-highest peak in North America. 2/20/07 - Jed Brown and Colin Haley made the probable first winter ascent of Mt. Huntington in the Alaska Range, via an extremely fast ascent of the West Face Couloir (Nettle-Quirk route). 3/19/07 - David Lama and Juliette Danion won the European Bouldering Championship in Birmigham, England, last weekend. Lama, 16, won the European lead-climbing championship last summer and finished second in the 2006 lead-climbing World Cup series. 3/12/07 - Despite a lingering finger injury, David Graham is firing on all cylinders in Spain. Last month, he redpointed two 5.14c routes in a single day at the Spanish crag Terradets, and then, two weeks later, redpointed a 5.14d. 3/09/07 - By the end of February 2007, if you had asked any of the international “talent” in Argentinean Patagonia what kind of season it was, they would have said “not so good” or “very unstable” or “too windy and cold.” 3/06/07 - Switzerland’s Ueli Steck has soloed the classic 1938 route on the North Face of the Eiger in 3 hours 54 minutes. 3/05/07 - Americans Ryan Nelson and Crystal Davis-Robbins made the first ascent of the South Face of Aguja de L'S in Patagonia, via one of the steepest lines in the range. 3/05/07 - Ben Nevis, the capital of Scottish winter climbing, witnessed an explosion of high-end activity late last week, on the final day of the British Mountaineering Council’s International Winter Meet. 2/21/07 - Americans Zack Smith and Josh Wharton made a bold attempt to climb the Southeast Ridge of Cerro Torre in Patagonia without using the protection bolts that were power-drilled by Cesare Maestri during his 1970 attempt on the granite needle. 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. |
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