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Midnight Express
12/17/07 - Daniel Woods has made the second ascent of Midnight Express (V14) near Castle Rock in Boulder Canyon, Colorado. 12/13/07 - The superhuman Patxi Usobiaga has onsighted the first ascent of Bizi Euskaraz (8c+, or 5.14c), at the Etxauri crag in the Navarra region of Spain. 12/12/07 - New Englanders Andy Tuthill and Will Mayo have climbed a difficult new mixed route on Cannon Cliff in New Hampshire, 200 feet to the left of Omega (IV 5+) and just right of the Henderson Buttress. 12/12/07 - Finding excellent conditions on Ben Nevis, Steve Ashworth, Viv Scott, and Andy Turner made the first ascent of The Secret, a two-pitch crack line on the side of Number 3 Gully. 12/10/07 - Whit Magro and Kristoffer Erickson have free-climbed the classic Montana ice route Winter Dance, nearly ten years after its first ascent. 12/07/07 - Lisa Rands and Paul Robinson won the third and final stage of the Triple Crown Bouldering Series at the Stone Fort (aka Little Rock City) near Chattanooga, Tennessee. 12/05/07 - The great Japanese explorer Tamotsu Nakamura has returned from another expedition to far western China with photos of stunning unclimbed peaks. 12/03/07 - Patxi Usobiaga has concluded perhaps the most impressive week in sport-climbing history with his repeat of La Novena Enmienda (9a+/5.15a) at Santa Linya, Spain. 11/28/07 - Nine days after he clinched the 2007 World Cup title in Slovenia, Patxi Usobiaga returned to Spain and very quickly made the fifth ascent of La Rambla (9a+/5.15a) at Siurana. 11/27/07 - Two teams seized the same weather window last week to traverse three of the four summits of the Torre group in Argentine Patagonia, a feat only accomplished once before. 11/27/07 - Two tiny teams, each pairing an Italian and a Pakistani climber, are about to attempt unprecedented winter ascents of 8,000-meter peaks in the Karakoram. 11/26/07 - A four-man French team has climbed a difficult new route to a previously unclimbed subpeak of Ganesh V in Nepal. 11/20/07 - Rob Owens and Eamonn Walsh have climbed another big “alpine cragging” route in the Canadian Rockies - and possibly made the first ascent of a peak little more than 30 minutes' drive from Banff. 11/19/07 - Thirty-two years after its first ascent, one of Colorado’s most famous boulder problems was repeated twice in the same afternoon. 11/19/07 - In a topsy-turvy last stage of the lead-climbing World Cup, in Kranj, Slovenia, several of the main contenders for the 2007 overall title didn’t even make the finals. 11/14/07 - A World Cup is coming to Vail, Colorado, and this time it isn’t for skiers. The Teva Mountain Games will host the first Bouldering World Cup ever staged in the U.S. on June 6 and 7, 2008. 11/13/07 - Two more major new ice routes have been climbed in the Canadian Rockies, still weeks before the official start of winter. 11/12/07 - Paul Robinson and Alex Puccio won the third and final Mammut/EMS Bouldering Championships, at the Metrorock gyms outside Boston. 11/09/07 - Dani Andrada has given 9b (5.15b) to a link-up he has completed in the Alí Baba cave at Rodellar, Spain. 11/07/07 - A Swiss duo that had already climbed one major new route in the Canadian Rockies has added another big new route, along with several impressive repeats. Meanwhile, visiting French climber Daniel du Lac joined locals Eric Dumerac and Steve Holeczi to climb another new route. 11/07/07 - Forty feet high with no rope, no belayer, and only one decent hold—a left-foot nubbin. No problem for 23-year-old Kevin Jorgeson, who just nabbed the first ascent of Footprints (V9 or E6), on the North Face of Grandpa Peabody just outside Bishop, California. 11/06/07 - Peter Inglis and Joe Puryear have made the probable first ascent of Peak 5,965m, the second-highest peak in the Genyen Massif in western China. 11/06/07 - Two works about mountain tragedies—on Nanga Parbat and Denali—took the grand prizes at the Banff Mountain Festivals, which concluded on November 4. 10/30/07 - The Swiss climbers Simon Anthamatten and Ueli Steck are on an early-season rampage in the Canadian Rockies, climbing a significant new route and two major repeats over the last two weeks. 10/30/07 - Tomaz Humar from Slovenia has reportedly soloed the legendary South Face of Annapurna. It is not yet known which route he followed, or if he climbed a new route. |
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