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Koyamada Gets Second Ascent of Woods V15
8/30/11 - Yesterday, Japanese climber Dai Koyamada made the second ascent of Daniel Woods' In Search of Time Lost (V15) in Magic Wood, Switzerland. 8/30/11 - Dave MacLeod has made the first free ascent of an eight-pitch, 400-meter granite route called Bongo Bar on the north face of Blamman, Norway. 8/29/11 - Nalle Hukkataival has been occupied with putting up boulder first ascents in the Grampians, Australia, recently. 8/29/11 - Mark Richey, Steve Swenson, and Freddie Wilkinson have climbed the east peak of Saser Kangri II in the Eastern Karakoram mountains of India's Kashmir region. 8/28/11 - Almost 700 young climbers came together to compete in the Youth World Championships in Imst, Austria, this past weekend. 8/29/11 - Adam Ondra hasn't slowed down since his repeat ascent of Monkey Wedding (V15) two weeks ago. 8/26/11 - Melissa Le Neve is ripping through boulders in Rocklands, South Africa, this season. 8/23/11 - Austrian mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner has summited K2 today by the rarely climbed north ridge, a classy finish to her quest to be the first woman to climb all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen. 8/25/11 - Joe Kinder responded to Matty Hong's send of Bad Girls Club in Rifle on his blog. 8/22/11 - The 2011 Boulder World Cup season drew to a close in Munich, Germany, this past weekend, with Russia's Dmitry Sharafutdinov and Slovenian Mina Markovic taking the gold. 8/22/11 - Kazakh climbers Gennady Durov and Denis Urubko have climbed a difficult new route on the huge north face of 7,439-meter Pobeda Peak in Kyrgyzstan. 8/19/11 - French climber Charlotte Durif has redpointed her first 5.14d, Les 3P, at Grotte de Galetas in the Verdon Gorge, France. 8/18/11 - Yesterday, the Clark County Commission voted 5-2 to approve a plan for a major development overlooking Red Rock National Conservation Area despite a strong, opposing presence from the local community. 8/17/11 - Sonnie Trotter and Tommy Caldwell have established a 15-pitch mixed route, The Shining (5.13+), on the Diamond Face on Mt. Louis in the Canadian Rockies. 8/16/11 - Nico Favresse and Adam Pustelnik have repeated the big-wall route Orbayu on the Naranjo de Bulnes formation in Picos de Europa, Spain. 8/15/11 - Shawn Raboutou has climbed Welcome to Tijuana (5.14b) in Rodellar, Spain, marking the 13-year-old's first climb of the grade. 8/15/11 - Sasha DiGiulian took first place in the European Youth Lead Cup in Imst, Austria, this past weekend. 8/10/11 - Ramón Julian Puigblanque has repeatedly shown his prowess as a reigning competition champion—he won the men's lead division at the World Championships in Arco this year and recently placed third at the Lead World Cup in Briancon, France. 8/8/11 - Adam Ondra got busy with the rock in Margalef, Spain, last week. 8/8/11 - Fresh off the Arco World Championships in Italy, Sasha DiGiulian flew to Salt Lake City, Utah, for the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market. 7/29/11 - Josh Wharton has free-climbed the second 5.13 route on the Diamond, a 900-foot vertical and overhanging wall that rises entirely above 13,000 feet on Longs Peak, the northernmost 14'er in the Rocky Mountains. 7/28/11 - Paul Robinson has climbed a proposed V15 near Cape Town, South Africa, that he's yet to name. 7/27/11 - Mike Foley redpointed Jaws II (5.15a) at Rumney, New Hampshire on July 24, making the route's third ascent. 7/27/11 - J.P. Ouellet (aka PeeWee) has made the second ascent of a desperate 5.14 crack in Vedauwoo, Wyoming: Home on the Range. 7/24/11 - Austria was well-represented at this year's Arco World Championships Lead Competition, with three athletes on both podiums. |
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