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Sharma Onsights Two 5.14's
9/30/08 - Chris Sharma has onsighted two 5.14 routes at Maple Canyon, Utah, in a long weekend of climbing. 9/30/08 - The young English climber James Pearson has climbed The Walk of Life (E12 7a) on a steep slab on the North Devon coast in southwest England. (New Photos Added - 9/30/08) 9/29/08 - A Spanish trio has climbed a steep, virgin rock peak in Pakistan, after their large expedition abandoned an attempt on 7,788-meter Rakaposhi. 9/24/08 - Joe Kinder has redpointed Kryptonite (5.14d) at the Fortress of Solitude near Rifle, Colorado. 9/23/08 - Canadian Sean McColl finished third in a lead-climbing World Cup last weekend in Imst, Austria, extending his remarkable season. 9/22/08 - Ryan Hokanson and Samuel Johnson have completed two huge climbs in the Arrigetch Peaks in Alaska’s Gates of the Arctic National Park, including a major new route. 9/15/08 - The past few days have seen a frenzy of hard sport climbing worldwide, including several 5.14d or harder ascents in the United States. 9/12/08 - Chris Sharma has completed his 250-foot mega-project at Clark Mountain in Southern California. 9/10/08 - Alex Honnold has free-soloed the Regular Northwest Face (VI 5.12a, 23 pitches) on Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. 9/09/08 - Czech climber Ondra Benes has completed a rare redpoint of The End of Silence (5.14a, 11 pitches), the Thomas Huber route in Germany that is still considered one of the hardest multipitch rock climbs in the Alps, 14 years after Huber first did it. 9/04/08 - A Korean team has climbed the northeast face of Meru South (6,660m/21,850'), adjacent to the well-known Meru Shark’s Fin in India’s Garhwal Himalaya. 9/03/08 - Switzerland’s Stephan Siegrist and Ueli Steck have completed a team-free redpoint ascent of the Eiger’s hardest free climb: Paciencia, a 23-pitch 5.13b on the north face. 9/02/08 - More than 300 climbers from 36 countries, including a large U.S. contingent, competed at the 16th Youth World Championship in Sydney, Australia, at the end of August. 8/29/08 - Just weeks after Petzl's RocTrip (July 23-27, 2008) it was announced that the alpine jewel of Austria is to be destroyed and used for construction materials. 8/27/08 - Fifteen years ago Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou was the third woman to climb 5.14. Now she’s just completed another 5.14a (8b+) near her summer home in France. 8/25/08 - Eight climbers are missing and believed dead after an ice avalanche swept across the climbers’ trail on the slopes of Mont Blanc du Tacul in France early Sunday morning. 8/22/08 - After three seasons of work, Matteo Della Bordella and Fabio Palma have completed Coelophysis, a 21-pitch 5.13c on the 2,000-foot-high Mahren sector of Switzerland’s Wendenstöcke cliffs. 8/21/08 - A cloudburst on August 7 has badly damaged the climbers’ trail to the base of Castleton Tower, the iconic sandstone pinnacle near Moab, Utah. 8/15/08 - Kelly Cordes and Justin Woods made a one-day ascent of the rarely climbed north face of Mt. Siyeh in Glacier National Park, completing a new route with about 3,000 feet of loose technical climbing in just 11 hours. 8/14/08 - Dave Anderson and Brady Robinson have free-climbed the full version of Karma de los Condores (V 5.11+R) in the Ishinca Valley of Peru, completing a 14-pitch route that tops out at around 14,500 feet. 8/11/08 - Chris Sharma and Alex Puccio won the Mammut Bouldering Championships in Salt Lake City on August 9. 8/08/08 - Dean Potter has made a "BASE solo" (or FreeBASE) of Deep Blue Sea (5.12+) on the north face of The Eiger, Switzerland. 8/07/08 - With the help of a ski exploration grant from the Hans Saari Memorial Fund, Jason Thompson, 27, Seth Waterfall, 33, and Tyler Jones, made the first (known) descents of Mount Shkhara (17,063 ft.), the highest peak in the Republic of Georgia, early this summer. 8/05/08 - Last weekend’s disaster on K2, in which 11 climbers fell or froze to death on the upper mountain after a summit push on August 1, overshadowed some extraordinary successes in the Karakoram in recent days. 8/04/08 - A large number of climbers are dead or missing on K2 after an ice avalanche hit the upper mountain during a big summit push on August 1. |
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