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Steck Solos Grandes Jorasses in 2:21
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. 11/24/08 - Japanese climbers Kazuya Hiraide and Kei Taniguchi have completed the first ascent of the 6,000-foot southeast face of Kamet (7,756m/25,446') in northern India. 11/21/08 - Rob Pizem and Pete Vintoniv have free-climbed the wildly overhanging northeast arête of the Shark’s Fin in Utah’s Monument Basin at 5.12 R. 11/21/08 - Adam Ondra has made the second ascent of Open Air at Austria’s Schleier Wasserfall, a route first done when Ondra was only three years old. 11/21/08 - Stéphane Benoist and Patrice Glairon-Rappaz climbed a new, direct route up the south face of 7,861-meter (25,791-foot) Nuptse in Nepal, before halting at the summit ridge in the face of extreme cold. 11/21/08 - Japanese climbers Kazuaki Amano, Fumitaka Ichimura, and Yusuke Sato have climbed the north face of Kalanka (6,931 meters/22,740 feet) in India's Garhwal Himalaya. 11/14/08 - Joseph Puryear and David Gottlieb have made the first ascent of the previously unclimbed peak Kang Nachugo (6,735 meters) in the Rolwaling Himal, Nepal. 11/10/08 - Carlos Buhler and Joan Solé Rovirosa have climbed a new alpine route on the East Face of Cerro Castillo in the Aysen region of Cerro Castillo National Reserve, Chilean Patagonia. |
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