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New Route on Andromeda
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. 3/16/05 - The islands of Koh Phi Phi, site of the first rock climbing in Thailand, were devastated in the December 26 tsunami yet received relatively little attention from climbers compared with better-known Railay Beach, which was spared the worst of the destruction. 3/14/05 - The Spanish star Dani Andrada is showing the best shape of his life: Since the start of the year, he has completed seven new routes of 5.14c or harder, including one possible 5.15a. 3/14/05 - The husband-and-wife team of Dean Potter and Steph Davis climbed several peaks in Patagonia, including a one-day ascent of the mighty Torre Egger, and Potter made the first BASE jump in the range. 3/14/05 - Aron Ralston, the Colorado man who had to amputate his own arm below the elbow after a canyoneering accident, has completed a seven-year project to solo the Colorado 14’ers in winter. 3/11/05 - Tommy Caldwell, America’s best all-around rock climber, dislocated his elbow and broke his wrist in a ground fall at Indian Creek, Utah. 3/08/05 - The 2005 U.S. Climbing Team for difficulty (roped) and speed climbing was selected March 5-6 at the USA Climbing Nationals, presented by Sterling Rope and Stone Age Climbing. 3/08/05 - Mark Wilford, a leading American rock climber and alpinist for more than two decades, received the Robert and Miriam Underhill Award for outstanding climbing achievement at the American Alpine Club’s annual meeting on March 5. 3/7/05 - Scott Semple, Raphael Slawinski, and Eamonn Walsh made the first winter ascent of 11,873-foot Mount Alberta in the Canadian Rockies. |
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