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10 Climbers Missing in Nepal
11/16/06 - A total of 10 climbers are missing on two Nepalese peaks, and searches are under way. On Tuesday, an avalanche wiped out Camp 3 at around 20,600 feet on 22,349-foot Ama Dablam, sweeping away six climbers from two teams. 11/15/06 - An American-Canadian team explored the Genyen Massif of China’s Western Sichuan Province in October, and came away with the first ascents of two striking peaks. 11/13/06 - A team of North Face climbers established a long 5.12 route in Morocco’s Taghia Cirque and also built a new roof for a school in the remote village below the limestone cliffs. 11/13/06 - On November 11, thirteen-year-old Adam Ondra (from the Czech Republic) has likely made the third ascent of Martin Krpan (5.14d) in Misja Pec, Slovenia, a "quite logical" link-up of four routes. 11/10/06 - Leo Houlding and Dean Potter have free-climbed the notorious Southern Belle (V 5.12d) on the South Face of Half Dome in Yosemite Valley. 11/08/06 - One of the world’s great climbing festivals brought pro athletes from around the globe along with hundreds of other climbers to Greece, as the Petzl RocTrip descended on the island of Kalymnos in late October. 11/03/06 - Despite finishing only fourth in the final bouldering World Cup of the year, Russia’s Olga Bibik had enough points after the Moscow comp to win the overall World Cup title for 2006. 11/04/06 - Daniel Woods made an impressive week-long, whirlwind visit to the Virgin River Gorge where he made an onsight ascent of Hell Comes to Frogtown (5.13d) on October 22, as well as ticking the VRG testpiece Necessary Evil (5.14c) in six attempts over four days, on October 28. 11/02/06 - Marko Prezelj and Boris Lorencic capped an extremely successful Slovenian expedition to the Tibet-Bhutan frontier by climbing the spectacular Northwest Pillar of Chomo Lhari (ca. 24,000 feet). 10/31/06 - On October 26, Andreas Bindhammer made the second ascent of Abyss (5.14d) in Déversé (Gorges du Loup; Nice, France). 10/31/06 - Got two weeks and want to put up a new route in Nepal? Try keeping up with Britons Jon Bracey and Nick Bullock, who pulled off a 3,000-foot-plus ice route to an unclimbed summit just nine days after landing at Lukla airport. 10/26/06 - Although an official investigation remains to be completed, it appears increasingly likely that a broken belay loop on Todd Skinner’s harness caused his death. 10/24/06 - Todd Skinner, one of the great American free-climbing pioneers of the late 20th century, has been killed on Leaning Tower in Yosemite Valley. 10/23/06 - A pair of Czech climbers has completed a new route to the summit of 20,700-foot Meru Central (aka the “Shark’s Fin”) in the Garhwal Himalaya of India. 10/20/06 - Scotland saw the ascent of its hardest sport route, on October 10, as Dave McLeod made a first ascent of Body Swerve (5.14b). 10/20/06 - Britons Tim Emmett and Ian Parnell have climbed a gigantic new route on 22,408-foot Kedar Dome in the Garhwal Himal area of northern India. 10/19/06 - In mid-September, Justen Sjong and Chris Weidner established the hardest free route yet on the 1,500-foot granite seacliffs of Devil Bay on the south coast of Newfoundland. 10/19/06 - Joe Kinder went on a sending spree in a little limestone crag in northern Utah called Causey, 45 minutes outside of Ogden, Utah, sending three 5.14 routes in three days of climbing. 10/18/06 - The Slovenian Pavle Kozjek has climbed a new route on the Southwest Face of 8,201-meter (26,906 feet) Cho Oyu in a solo single push from advanced base camp. 10/17/06 - Jamie Emerson grabbed a fall ascent of Rocky Mountain National Park's (RMNP) hardest boulder problem, Freaks of the Industry, on September 29, after a summer's-worth of off-and-on effort. 10/17/06 - On September 28, Jody Hansen of Boulder, CO made the second female ascent of Bush Pilot (V11) in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. 10/17/06 - Will Gadd has completed a seven-year-old project to establish a new free climb up the most daunting buttress on Yamnuska, the Canadian Rockies’ famed adventure crag. 10/13/06 - Patxi Usobiaga onsighted his second 5.14b, Pata Negra (Rodellar, Spain), on October 7. This route is a 120-foot, steep, endurance line that was first onsighted by Czech climber Tomás Mrázek in September 2005. 10/11/06 - On September 20th, Barbara Raudner made the third ascent of Keitos Palast (5.14b), in Höllental, Austria. 10/09/06 - Markus Bock has just redpointed a new route in Germany’s Frankenjura that he says is the hardest climb he has ever done, according to an email posted on www.moonclimbing.com. |
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