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New Faces at World Cups
4/26/04 - If the first World Cup difficulty comp of 2004 is any indication, this year’s circuit could be a lot more exciting than last season. 4/27/04 - The Austrian Kilian Fischhuber has flashed Tai Chi, a route rated 5.14b (8c). The 26-foot, slightly overhanging limestone route at Lorüns was established by Beat Kammerlander and graded 5.14a. 4/20/04 - Tommy Caldwell has flashed the mostly free version of the Leaning Tower, Yosemite's steepest big-wall climb. 4/19/04 - Austrian Kilian Fischhuber has won his first World Cup bouldering competition and moved into the top spot in the overall standings. 4/15/04 - Patrick Berhault and Philippe Magnin are well past the halfway mark on their visionary Tour des Alpes. 4/13/04 - An 11-year-old from the Czech Republic is rapidly emerging as one of the brightest lights in European sport climbing. 4/09/04 - Steve House and Marko Prezelj have made the coveted third ascent of the North Face of North Twin in the Canadian Rockies—the third ascent in 30 years. 4/09/04 - Ben Gilmore and Kevin Mahoney have climbed a new route on the famed East Face of the Moose’s Tooth in the Alaska Range. 4/06/05 - Chris Sharma and Angela Payne won the Petzl Roc Comp national bouldering championships at Earth Treks gym in Maryland. 4/05/04 - Daniel Dulac and Sandrine Levet won the first bouldering World Cup of the year, April 4 in Birmingham, England. 4/02/04 - A large, all-star team of Russian mountaineers has launched a new direct route up the North Face of Mt. Everest, one of the most ambitious attempts in years on the world’s highest peak. 3/31/04 - The huge Sphinx Face on Mount Temple in the Canadian Rockies, which just two weeks ago got its first winter ascent (and possibly second ascent in 15 years), was climbed in a single day round-trip by Scott Semple and Eamonn Walsh. 3/30/04 - The burgeoning sport of ski mountaineering concluded its race season in North America in late March with two major events, including the first World Cup on U.S. snow. 3/26/04 - Raphael Slawinski has made his second trip up the North Face of Mt. Temple this winter, climbing the “Eiger of the Canadian Rockies” with Valery Babanov. 3/25/04 - After three and a half weeks of effort, Frenchmen Patrick Berhault, 47, and Philippe Magnin, 39, have climbed 19 4,000-meter peaks in the Alps, but two spells of snowy weather have put them nearly a week behind schedule. 3/22/04 - Coloradan Rich Purnell has repeated The Game (M13) near Canmore, Alberta, becoming the first American to climb the world’s hardest mixed route. 3/22/04 - Ethan Pringle and Angela Payne won the American Bouldering Series (ABS) national at the Pipeworks gym in Sacramento, California, on Saturday. 3/19/04 - Vadim Vinokur and Emily Harrington won the difficulty comp at the USA Climbing Adult Open National, held at the X-Treme climbing gym in Miami, Florida, on March 13. 3/19/04 - On a warm, calm day last Friday, Jonny Copp and Josh Wharton raced up the Diamond of Colorado's 14,259-foot Longs Peak in 14 hours and 17 minutes, car to car. 3/16/04 - In the Shadow of the Chief, a 50-minute documentary of the 1961 first ascent of Stawamus Chief in British Columbia, won the grand prize at the 7th Annual Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. 3/12/04 - Many of Europe’s best mixed climbers descended on Canmore, Alberta, for the annual ice festival during the first week of March, and the Cineplex, site of Canada’s hardest mixed routes, saw numerous repeats. 3/10/04 - Americans Josh Helling and Mike Libecki climbed a new big-wall route in rarely visited Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, during a two-month visit to the southern continent. 3/09/04 - Good news, bad news for Jonny Copp and Josh Wharton in Patagonia this year: On the one hand, they arrived in time for one of the longest good-weather windows in memory and reached two summits. 3/05/04 - Steve McClure, Britain’s strongest sport climber, has turned his attention to gritstone and climbed a desperate but fairly well-protected problem at Curbar Edge. 3/04/04 - Ben Firth and Raphael Slawinski have made a winter ascent of the much-tried Greenwood-Locke Route on the North Face of Mt. Temple in the Canadian Rockies. |
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