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Ondra, Koyamada on a Roll in Switzerland
10/5/11 - Adam Ondra has had a successful trip to Switzerland despite not-so-perfect weather conditions. 10/5/11 - Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk have completed the direct line up Meru Shark's Fin, a stunning granite buttress on the northeast side of 6,310-meter Meru Central in the Gangotri mountains of India. 10/4/11 - Right after climbing what he thought was a new 5.14d in Rifle, Colorado, Jonathan Siegrist found a new method involving a kneebar that he believes downgrades Shadowboxing to 5.14c. 10/4/11 - A Slovenian team climbed a major new route on K7 West in Pakistan's Charakusa Valley this summer, while an American duo made the first ascent of a 6,540-meter (21,457') peak in the valley. 10/3/11 - Jakob Schubert (Austria) and Jain Kim (Korea) took top honors at last weekend's Lead World Cup in Puurs, Belgium. 10/3/11 - Daniel Woods has made the first ascent of Mystic Styles in Magic Wood, Switzerland, for which he's proposing V15. 10/3/11 - In a quick trip from Seattle, Dave Burdick, John Frieh, and Zac West did the first ascent of the east arête of Burkett Needle in southeast Alaska. 9/30/11 - New England native Peter Kamitses has established one of the country's hardest traditional climbs: Oppositional Defiance Disorder (5.14a) in the Adirondacks, New York. 9/29/11 - Jeremy Aslaksen and Paul Gagner have climbed a new route on the west side of Cottontail—their fourth new route in the Fisher Towers of Utah in the last three years. 9/27/11 - Joe Kinder has repeated Bad Girls Club (5.14d) in Rifle, a route he bolted in Rifle, Colorado. 9/27/11 - Ben Spannuth has finished Chris Sharma's Era Bella (5.14d) in Margalef, Spain. 9/27/11 - American climbers Doug Chabot, Bruce Miller, and Steve Su completed the first ascent of Hispar Sar (6,400m/20,997') in the Karakoram of Pakistan in early August. 9/26/11 - Alex Honnold geared up for the weekend by soloing Cosmic Debris (5.13b) last week in Yosemite. 9/26/11 - Angie Payne and Ian Dory nabbed first place at 2011's final Unified Bouldering Championships competition—The North Face Open in Burlington, Vermont—this weekend. 9/20/11 - Last week, a new speed record was set on the Nose of El Capitan in Yosemite. 9/21/11 - A Russian expedition has climbed the first mostly independent new route on Trango Tower (aka Nameless Tower) in many years. 9/20/11 - Rifle, Colorado, saw its first female 5.14b ascent last Saturday by local Jen Vennon, when she climbed Stockboy's Revenge at the Bauhaus. 9/20/11 - After being in Spain for about three weeks, Sasha DiGiulian has accumulated quite the ticklist (perhaps record breaking?). 9/12/11 - Adam Ondra has had a successful trip to Rocklands, South Africa, this year. 9/9/11 - Dutch climber Jorg Verhoeven has spent some time recently developing a cave in the Flatanger region of Norway, where he has climbed a 5.14d link-up. 9/8/11 - Austrian Jakob Schubert and Korean Jain Kim won the Lead World Cup in Changzhi, China, this week. 9/8/11 - James Kassay has updated his blog with thoughts on his ascent of the Wheel of Life. 9/8/11 - Two days ago, Daniel Woods repeated what's considered one of the hardest problems in the world: Anam Cara in the Silvretta Mountains, Austria. 8/31/11 - French climber Sébastien Bouin has climbed what he thinks is his hardest route—and first ascent—thus far: a yet-unnamed 5.14d/5.15a in the La Ramirole Cave in the Verdon Gorge, France. 8/31/11 - In early August, Janet Bergman, Emilie Drinkwater, and Kristin Kremer completed three first ascents of peaks in the Eastern Karakoram in India. |
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