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2009 Mugs Stump Award Winners Announced
1/13/09 - The applications received for 2009 included many strong teams with objectives in far-flung corners of the mountaineering world, from Patagonia, to Pakistan, to the Canadian Rockies, to Alaska. 1/12/09 - Ryan Pasquill has succeeded in climbing a desperate new route at the Ilkley Crag in Yorkshire, England. 1/12/09 - Josh Wharton and Dawn Glanc won the mixed-climbing competition at the 14th annual Ouray Ice Festival in southwestern Colorado. 1/09/09 - Fueled by the drink of the gods, Kevin Jorgeson, has made the first ascent of a bold 45-foot tall face on the Grandpa Peabody boulder at the Buttermilk Boulders, near Bishop, California. 1/09/08 - Colin Haley has done a rare solo ascent of Fitz Roy in Patagonia, via the Supercanaleta (a.k.a. Super Couloir), the amazing ice and mixed line that splits the mountain’s west face. 1/07/09 - Ice climber Keith Spencer died January 2 when a rare and powerful avalanche swept the Main Vein ice climb in the South Fork Valley, near Cody, Wyoming. (Updated - 1/14/09) 1/07/09 - Scotland’s Dave MacLeod has made the second ascent of The Walk of Life, a 50-meter steep slab on England’s North Devon coast that was given the unprecedented grade of E12 7a when James Pearson made the first ascent last year. 1/07/09 - Ueli Steck has soloed the Colton-MacIntyre Route on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses in 2 hours 21 minutes, the fastest time for any route on the premier north wall of the Mont Blanc massif. (New Photos Added - 1/12/09) 1/05/09 - At the end of 2008, a French expedition climbed a new route on the granite tower Holstind in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, and made the first ascent of several other peaks. 1/02/09 - Attempted winter ascents of three 8,000-meter peaks are under way in Pakistan and Nepal. 12/31/08 - After sussing the moves with a top rope, Shawn Diamond bouldered the first ascent of a “super-highball” problem called Luminance (tentatively graded V11) near the Buttermilks in California. 12/30/08 - In November, Spanish climber Jordi Tozas completed two solo ascents of 6,000-meter peaks in the Khumbu region of Nepal, and made bold attempts on the south faces of Nuptse and Lhotse. 12/17/08 - Chris Sharma has completed a project at Siurana, Spain, that he believes could be as hard as 9b (5.15b). 12/16/08 - Six teams climbed the upper west face of Cerro Torre in the first nine days of December, doubling the number of previous ascents. 12/15/08 - Dave Turner and Mark Matthews completed the probable first ascent of a small granite tower in the Paine region of Chilean Patagonia. 12/15/08 - Pete Robins and Ben Bransby have made ground-up ascents of James Pearson’s gritstone test-piece, The Promise (E10 7a), near Sheffield, England. 12/12/08 - Josune Bereziartu, the strongest female rock climber in the world, has been turning more attention to alpine and winter climbing. 12/11/08 - Dan Cappellini and Rolf Larson climbed a long ice line up the north face of Buck Mountain in the North Cascades in early December. 12/10/08 - The third and pinnacle event of the Triple Crown Bouldering Series concluded on December 5-6, 2008, on the world class sandstone boulders of The Stone Fort (aka Little Rock City) near Chattanooga, Tennessee. 12/10/08 - The world’s strongest climbers have lit up the crags of northeastern Spain this week, with Chris Sharma and Ramón Julián Puigblanque both in superb form. 12/08/08 - American Tiffany Hensley and Canadian Sean McColl were crowned North American champions on Sunday, concluding a three-day competition in Montreal. 12/05/08 - A two-year team effort has resulted in one of the hardest and best multipitch free routes in the Southeast: The Glass I (5.13a or b, four or five pitches) on the north side of Looking Glass Rock in western North Carolina. (New Photos Added - 12/09/08) 12/01/08 - Jon Simms and Jon Walsh have completed a rare ascent of The Wild Thing on the east face of Mt. Chephren in the Canadian Rockies, making the probable first free ascent of the route. 11/26/08 - Joe Kinder has completed a 5.14c first ascent at the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. Kinder bolted Southern Smoke, a direct start to Ultra-Perm (5.13d) at the Bob Marley Crag, and redpointed the line after six days of work. 11/25/08 - Americans Alex Honnold and Kevin Jorgeson have astonished British climbers with rapid repeats of some of the testiest routes on “God’s own rock,” the English gritstone. |
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