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72 pitch First Ascent in the Changping Valley, China
10/16/08 - Chad Kellogg and Dylan Johnson, funded in part by a Lyman Spitzer Award from the American Alpine Club, completed the first ascent of the Southwest Ridge of Siguniang in southwestern China, (VI 5.11 A2 M5 AI3+), 72 pitches. 10/10/08 - Katie Brown has onsighted the Regular Northwest Face (VI 5.12) of Half Dome, completing the 23-pitch route in about nine hours. 10/09/08 - After storms foiled a traditional porter-assisted approach to a striking peak in India, an American quartet regrouped and went ultra-light to bag the likely first ascent of the 17,697-foot summit. 10/08/08 - The French alpinists Aymeric Clouet and Christophe Dumarest have linked eight high peaks in the Écrins Massif in the western Alps by their north faces. 10/08/08 - The tiny nation of Slovenia has lost its second great climber in 2008 to a Himalayan accident. (Updated - 10/09/08) 10/07/08 - Alex Johnson and Jon Glassberg won the 15th annual Hound Ears Bouldering Competition on a splitter day near Boone, North Carolina. 10/03/08 - The British couple John and Anne Arran, veterans of several big new routes on Venezuela’s remote sandstone walls, have completed their “most adventurous big-wall expedition yet”. 10/02/08 - Toni Lamprecht has redpointed a 150-foot “monster route” on the limestone of Kochel in southern Germany that might be as hard as 5.15a. 10/01/08 - The past few days have seen a rush of activity on Europe's hardest boulders, with some familiar names in the heart of the action. (New Photo Added - 10/02/08) 9/30/08 - Chris Sharma has onsighted two 5.14 routes at Maple Canyon, Utah, in a long weekend of climbing. 9/30/08 - The young English climber James Pearson has climbed The Walk of Life (E12 7a) on a steep slab on the North Devon coast in southwest England. (New Photos Added - 9/30/08) 9/29/08 - A Spanish trio has climbed a steep, virgin rock peak in Pakistan, after their large expedition abandoned an attempt on 7,788-meter Rakaposhi. 9/24/08 - Joe Kinder has redpointed Kryptonite (5.14d) at the Fortress of Solitude near Rifle, Colorado. 9/23/08 - Canadian Sean McColl finished third in a lead-climbing World Cup last weekend in Imst, Austria, extending his remarkable season. 9/22/08 - Ryan Hokanson and Samuel Johnson have completed two huge climbs in the Arrigetch Peaks in Alaska’s Gates of the Arctic National Park, including a major new route. 9/15/08 - The past few days have seen a frenzy of hard sport climbing worldwide, including several 5.14d or harder ascents in the United States. 9/12/08 - Chris Sharma has completed his 250-foot mega-project at Clark Mountain in Southern California. 9/10/08 - Alex Honnold has free-soloed the Regular Northwest Face (VI 5.12a, 23 pitches) on Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. 9/09/08 - Czech climber Ondra Benes has completed a rare redpoint of The End of Silence (5.14a, 11 pitches), the Thomas Huber route in Germany that is still considered one of the hardest multipitch rock climbs in the Alps, 14 years after Huber first did it. 9/04/08 - A Korean team has climbed the northeast face of Meru South (6,660m/21,850'), adjacent to the well-known Meru Shark’s Fin in India’s Garhwal Himalaya. 9/03/08 - Switzerland’s Stephan Siegrist and Ueli Steck have completed a team-free redpoint ascent of the Eiger’s hardest free climb: Paciencia, a 23-pitch 5.13b on the north face. 9/02/08 - More than 300 climbers from 36 countries, including a large U.S. contingent, competed at the 16th Youth World Championship in Sydney, Australia, at the end of August. 8/29/08 - Just weeks after Petzl's RocTrip (July 23-27, 2008) it was announced that the alpine jewel of Austria is to be destroyed and used for construction materials. 8/27/08 - Fifteen years ago Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou was the third woman to climb 5.14. Now she’s just completed another 5.14a (8b+) near her summer home in France. 8/25/08 - Eight climbers are missing and believed dead after an ice avalanche swept across the climbers’ trail on the slopes of Mont Blanc du Tacul in France early Sunday morning. |
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