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Ukrainians on Great Trango
8/11/03 - Four members of a Ukrainian expedition climbed a new route on the Northwest Face of Great Trango Tower (20,415 feet), one of the largest rock walls in the world. 8/9/03 - An avalanche on Alpamayo (19,511 feet) in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru killed eight foreign climbers in July. 8/8/03 - In a single month, Monique Forestier has climbed the two hardest sport routes by an Australian woman. 8/7/03 -Nevada’s Cave Rock climbing area, home to such classic sport routes as Undertow and Slayer, is now closed, following a Record of Decision (ROD) reached by the US Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit in July. 8/6/03 -Topher Donahue and Tommy Caldwell climbed five routes in one day on the Diamond, the 900-foot granite wall on Longs Peak, Colorado. 8/04/03 - American Chad Kellogg won the annual Khan Tengri speed-climbing competition in Kazkhstan on August 1. 8/01/03 - Spaniard Bernabé Fernández claimed the first ascent of Chilam Balam, at Villanueva del Rosario in Málaga, Spain. 7/7/03 - Tired of plastic-pumping comp coverage ? Check out the Klaus Fengler photos from the fourth annual Red Bull-Big Wall Speed Climbing Contest, held on the limestone big walls of Croatia’s Paklenica Canyon. 7/7/03 - French climber Jean Christophe Lafaille and American Ed Viesturs of Bainbridge Island, WA reached the summit of 26,548 foot Nanga Parbat in Pakistan on June 27th. 6/24/03 - In early February, Frenchmen Patrick Berhault and Philippe Magnin blitzed the Italian side of Mont Blanc, climbing an astonishing 16 routes over 19 days. 6/24/03 - Dean Potter has freed the aid route Acromaniac, formerly 5.10 A0, in Day Canyon near Moab, Utah. 6/18/03 - In conjunction with the 50th anniversary celebration of Mount Everest’s first ascent, the American Alpine Club (AAC) announced its financial backing of a five-year conservation effort aimed at restoring the alpine environs of Mount Everest. 6/02/03 - A helicopter transporting climbers crashed near Everest basecamp on Wednesday. 5/21/03 - In February, Brian McCray and Ammon McNeeley made two visits to the sandstone big walls of Zion National Park and came away with four speed records 5/21/03 - During the first two months of 2003, Germans Ines Papert and Robert Jasper raised the bar for mixed climbing by picking their way up several high-end routes in Switzerland. 5/19/03 - Climb Smart presented by The Friends of Joshua Tree (FoJT), is a fun-filled and action packed four days planned in Joshua Tree over Memorial Day weekend. 4/17/03 - Look out Realization. Scoot over Flex Luthor. There's a new all-natural 5.15a on the scene-- La Rambla Direct, an extension to Alex Huber's 5.14c. |
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