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Secor Recovering From Severe Fall
5/04/05 - Author and mountaineer R.J. Secor was severely injured in mid-April when he lost control of a glissade on Mount San Antonio (aka Mount Baldy) in Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains. 5/02/05 - Could this be Vadim Vinokur’s year? Brooklyn's finest climber pulled off the best World Cup of his career, taking fifth in Flanders, Belgium, on April 30. 5/02/05 - Three teams of young climbers have won Lyman Spitzer Climbing Grants from the American Alpine Club totaling $12,000, plus gear from MSR, Therm-a-Rest and Platypus. 4/29/05 - After years of attempts, two brothers succeeded on the probable first winter ascent of Glacier National Park’s highest peak. 4/28/05 - The Japanese Dai Koyamada has established another long boulder problem that may be harder than V15, according to www.8a.nu. 4/27/05 - Alan Doak and Stefan Griebel completed a one-day ascent of the Hallucinogen Wall (VI 5.10 A3+), Colorado’s premier aid route, on April 23. 4/25/05 - Italian Flavio Crespi won the first lead-climbing World Cup of 2005, in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. 4/25/05 - A multinational team has free-climbed the El Capitan-sized wall to the left of Angel Falls in Venezuela, using no bolts for protection. 4/22/05 - The budding partnership of Valeri Babanov and Raphael Slawinski has completed yet another winter-conditions route on a classic face of the Canadian Rockies. 4/20/05 - A trio of desert adventurers has established one of the longest girdle traverses in North America: the 1.4-mile traverse of the Great White Wall in Utah. 4/18/05 - Maximizing the last days of spring before hot weather settles on northern Spain, Dani Andrada has redpointed his second possible 5.15 in a single month. 4/15/05 - Turning his attention from bouldering to routes as the weather warms, Dave Graham, our man in Europe, has done a pair of desperate climbs, including the classic Bain de Sang (9a/5.14d). 4/13/05 - Austrian Bernd Zangerl spent a month at Hueco Tanks this winter and repeated two of the park’s V14 boulder problems. 4/11/05 - Sandrine Levet won her second World Cup in a row while Jérôme Meyer narrowly won the men’s crown for a French sweep of the Moscow Bouldering World Cup. 4/07/05 - The great Swiss boulderer Fred Nicole, who has established most of the cutting-edge problems at Hueco Tanks, completed two more desperates in a late-winter visit. 3/30/05 - Chris Sharma, said to be in the best shape of his life, established his hardest boulder problem yet in Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains. 4/05/05 - Climbers from all over Europe tested the limits of their power at the No Foot Contest VI in Strasbourg, France. 4/04/05 - Thirteen-year-old Matt Fultz has redpointed Black Out (5.13d/5.14a) in Logan Canyon, Utah. 3/25/05 - Britons Ben Bransby and Pete Robins have freed the classic Finger of Fate route on Utah's Titan, according to www.ukclimbing.com. 3/23/05 - Euros dominate the third annual Black Diamond Wasatch Powder Keg,the only Ski Mountaineering World Cup on U.S. soil. 3/23/05 - Aaron Martin had a remarkable season in Patagonia, leading an ascent of Fitz Roy and making a rare solo ascent of Cerro Torre. 3/22/05 - Dave Graham has climbed another possible 8c (V15) boulder problem, according to www.8a.nu. 3/22/05 - Austrian Nina Arch extended the womens dyno record by nearly 10 inches at a competition in Britain. 3/21/05 - Hometown hero Mark Croxall of the U.K. narrowly won the first Bouldering World Cup of 2005 in Birmingham, England. 3/17/05 - Phil Powers, a longtime mountain guide who has climbed everything from K2 to 5.13 sport routes, has been named Executive Director of the American Alpine Club. |
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