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Hard New Route in Alaska's Hayes Range
7/03/09 - Samuel Johnson and Matt Klick made the first ascent of the northern ridge on 11,140-foot Mt. Balchen in Alaska's Hayes Range in a lightweight two-day climb. 7/02/09 - British climbers James Clapham and Gavin Pike climbed new routes on Peak 11,300' and Mt. Church in the Ruth Gorge area of the Alaska Range. 7/02/09 - Zhenja Kazbekova, a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl, has climbed New Kenigsberg( 8a+/8b or 5.13c/d) at the Krasny Kamen or “Red Stone” sector, in Crimea, southern Ukraine. 7/01/09 - Alex Honnold and Sean Leary have climbed the Salathé Wall on Yosemite's El Capitan in a record 4 hours and 55 minutes. After that, in the scorching heat, the pair ran up the Nose in 7 hours. 6/26/09 - On Thursday, June 18, 2009, the 25 year old Italian, Jenny Lavarda, redpointed Reini’s Vibes (8c/8c+ or 5.14b/c) at Masson’s Pueblo sector, in Italy, for the first female ascent of the route. 6/24/09 - 16 year old Czech phenomenon Adam Ondra has repeated Alexander Huber's Om at Endstal, Germany and believes the route to be 9a or 5.14d. 6/19/09 - Majka Burhardt, Peter Doucette, and Kate Rutherford have climbed two new big wall routes: Southern Crossing (V 5.11+) and Painted Giraffe (V 5.9+), on the Orabeskopf Wall in Southeastern Africa. 6/08/09 - It is with deep regret that the American team and Chinese authorities have ended the search for Micah Dash, the third missing climber, on June 12, 2009. 9/12/09 - Rangers at Denali National Park have located the bodies of Yuto Inoue and Tatsuro Yamada near the 20,320-foot summit of Denali. 6/09/09 - Paul Schweizer and Simon Yates made the first ascent of the southwest spur of 15,600-foot Good Neighbor Peak in the St. Elias Range, on the Alaska-Yukon border. 6/08/09 - A second body has been found on Mount Edgar (6818 meters/22,368 feet), China, and is believed to be Wade Johnson, 24, of Boulder, CO. 6/08/09 - American boulderers dominated the second annual Vail World Cup at the Teva Mountain Games on June 5-6. 6/08/09 - The body found in avalanche debris at 4000 meters on Mount Edgar (6818 meters/22,368 feet), China, has been positively identified as Jonathan “Jonny” Copp, age 35 of Boulder, CO. 6/26/09 - A body has been found in avalanche debris at 4000 meters on Mount Edgar (6818 meters/22,368 feet) on the Minya Konka massif, Western Sichuan Province, China. 6/05/09 - Three Boulder, Colorado climbers—Jonathan Copp (age 35), Micah Dash (age 30), and Wade Johnson (age 24)—are overdue, having missed their flight on June 3 from Chengdu, China. 6/04/09 - On May 27th, 2009, Alex Honnold redpointed Yosemite’s Salathé Wall (VI 5.13c) in the blazing fast time of 8 and a half hours. 6/03/09 - Jay Smith and Jack Tackle, longtime veterans of Alaskan climbing, enjoyed a remarkable two and a half weeks in the Alaska Range in May, climbing four new routes. 6/01/09 - Chris Sharma has redpointed a 50-meter new route at Oliana, Spain, that he called Pachamama (9a+/5.15a). 5/29/09 - In April and May, Paul Knott and Guy McKinnon from New Zealand visited the Johns Hopkins Glacier in southeast Alaska, and they came away with two major new routes, including the first ascent of an 8,599-foot summit. 5/22/09 - German strongman Toni Lamprecht has climbed a new limestone sport climb, Jaws 11, at Kochel in Southern Germany that he’s graded “up in the French 9th grade”; i.e., mid-5.15. 5/22/09 - Clint Helander and Seth Holden completed the first ascent of the Ice Pyramid (9,250') in the Revelation Mountains of Alaska. 5/21/09 - Swiss climber Ueli Steck free-climbed Golden Gate (5.13b, 41 pitches) and fell on only a single pitch, onsighting the rest of the climb. (Updated - 5/22/09) 5/21/09 - Jon Bracey and Matt Helliker enjoyed a super-productive two-week trip to the Ruth Gorge in the Alaska Range, where stable weather and good ice conditions allowed them to climb two very hard new routes. 5/18/09 - Mikhail Mikhailov and Alexander Ruchkin completed the first ascent of a 6,134-meter peak in Sichuan, China, by a superb, 1,000-meter rock pillar. 5/15/09 - Kazakh climber Denis Urubko has summited 8,201-meter Cho Oyu by an alpine-style ascent of the difficult southeast face, a stylish finish to his quest to climb all 14 8,000-meter peaks. |
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