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Josune Bereziartu Ticks Hard Canadian Ice
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. 11/07/08 - Camilo Lopez and Anna Pfaff have made two possible first ascents in India’s Miyar Valley. 11/04/08 - Jimmy Webb has secured a solid victory at this year’s Horse Pens 40 competition on leg two of the 2008 Triple Crown Bouldering Series presented by Marmot. 10/31/08 - The 15-year-old Czech super-climber Adam Ondra has made the first onsight of Hotel Supramonte, a 10 pitch limestone 5.14a, on Italy’s island of Sardinia. 10/27/08 - Ethan Benjamin Pringle, usually known for his hard sport and boulder ascents, has redpointed Boulder Canyon’s China Doll (5.14a) and Eldorado Canyon’s Iron Monkey (5.14a) this fall while in Colorado. 10/24/08 - Thomas Huber has climbed three summits in Italy's Dolomites, the Tre Cime di Lavaredo, and B.A.S.E. jumped off two of them in a single day. 10/22/08 - PodClimber.com has produced an exclusive interview with legendary speed climber Hans Florine about his and Yuji Hirayama's October 12, 2008 record-fast ascent of The Nose on El Capitan, Yosemite, California. 10/22/08 - Alex Puccio has climbed two V12 boulder problems and a V11 in Colorado in the last week. 10/21/08 - Vince Anderson has sent a brief report and photo to the Cleanest Line describing a new route on Kangchungtse (a.k.a. Makalu II, 24,850 feet). 10/20/08 - Nicolas Favresse and Sean Villanueva have completed a new free route on the far right side of El Capitan. See a photo gallery from this ascent. |
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