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Sharma Redpoints Clark Mountain Project
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. 7/31/08 - Scotland’s Dave MacLeod has led the Echo Wall on Ben Nevis, calling it “harder than Rhapsody (or anything else I’ve been on).” 7/29/08 - The teenage Czech climber Adam Ondra has done the first redpoint ascent of WoGü (5.14), a super-sustained mini–big wall of limestone in the mountains of Switzerland. 7/28/08 - Nicolas Favresse, who made the second ascent of Cobra Crack (5.14) at Squamish on July 18, said it was “definitely the hardest trad I have ever done.” 7/24/08 - Nine days after the death of Karl Unterkircher in a crevasse fall on Nanga Parbat, Unterkircher’s climbing partners, Simon Kehrer and Walter Nones, have been rescued from the mountain by helicopter. 7/21/08 - Two of North America’s hardest traditional rock climbs—both Sonnie Trotter routes in Canada—have been repeated in the past few days. 7/21/08 - The Basque climber Patxi Usobiaga has onsighted Home Sweet Home (5.14b/c) at Pierrot Beach, France, his second onsight harder than 5.14b. 7/17/08 - Karl Unterkircher, one of the leading lights of Himalayan climbing in recent years, has been killed in a crevasse fall while attempting a new route on Nanga Parbat. |
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