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American Alpine Club Launches Cornerstone Conservation Grant
The American Alpine Club is now accepting applications for their new grant, the Cornerstone Conservation Grant. 6/6/11 - Brian Kimball has been busy these past few months reinventing the New River Wall in Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado. 6/7/11 - Mark Allen and Graham Zimmerman did the first ascent of an extremely remote 12,214-foot peak in the Alaska Range in May, the culmination of two visits to the isolated—and possibly unvisited—Northwest Fork of the Lacuna Glacier, as well as three separate attempts on the mountain. 6/5/11 - Throngs of spectators gathered at yesterday's Bouldering World Cup at the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, Colorado, to watch Austrian power couple Kilian Fischhuber and Anna Stöhr dominate finals. 6/2/11 - Today, the Club would like to congratulate Phil on his release from the hospital. 5/31/11 - The latest Bouldering World Cup took place in Canmore this weekend—the first time Canada has hosted an IFSC comp. 5/27/11 - Austrian climber Hansjörg Auer free-climbed the Hallucinogen Wall in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in mid-April at 5.13+ R. 5/25/11 - British climbers Jon Bracey and Matt Helliker spent six days in May climbing a new line on Mt. Hunter's 4,000-foot north buttress. 5/23/11 - No rest for the (un)weary: on a recent trip to England, Adam Ondra snagged the second ascent of Steve McClure's Overshadow at Malham Cove, for which McClure proposed 5.15a after his FA in 2007. 5/19/11 - Norwegian climber Therese Johansen has repeated Propaganda, a boulder problem in Vingsand, Norway, that Bernd Zangerl gave V13 after his first ascent in 2010. 5/17/11 - American guide Michael Horst has climbed Mt. Everest and Lhotse, the highest and fourth-highest mountains in the world, with less than 21 hours between the two summits. 5/16/11 - The third leg of the Bouldering World Cup took place in Vienna, Austria, last weekend. 5/12/11 - Sixteen-year-old Enzo Oddo has repeated Aubade Direct (5.14d/15a) at Sainte Victoire in France. 5/9/11 - The Bouldering World Cup circuit saw its second comp of the 2011 season at Log-Dragomer, Slovenia, this past weekend. 5/6/11 - Just two weeks after Chris Sharma finished his infamous First Round First Minute project in Margalef, Spain, he came back to climb a 5.15b and 5.15a at Oliana in the same day. 5/5/11 - Mason Earle has put up what might be one of the hardest crack climbs in Indian Creek: Hot Pork Sunday (5.13+). 5/4/11 - Dave Graham has established a new problem in Endo Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park: Glow in the Dark Estrellas. 5/4/11 - Winners of the 2011 Copp-Dash Inspire Awards have been announced. 5/4/11 - Joshua Lavigne and Raphael Slawinski climbed a beautiful new mixed route on the north face of Mt. Patterson in the Canadian Rockies on May Day, to the right of the famous Riptide ice climb. 5/3/11 - After more than a decade, one of America's hardest routes had yet to see a repeat. 5/2/11 - Alex Puccio climbed Jack's Broken Heart (V12) and The Right Hand of Darkness (V11) in Magic Wood, Switzerland, today. 4/29/11 - Hard repeats in Spain are being fired left and right. 4/28/11 - Germany's Dorothea Karalus has made the third female ascent of Magic Wood's Pura Vida (V12/13). 4/28/11 - Emily Harrington has climbed Full Equip (5.14b) in Oliana, Spain, marking her eighth 5.14 send. 4/26/11 - A day after his first ascent of La Planta de Shiva (5.15b)—and on his last day in Spain—Adam Ondra casually added several more 5.14s to his résumé. |
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