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European Bouldering Championships
3/19/07 - David Lama and Juliette Danion won the European Bouldering Championship in Birmigham, England, last weekend. Lama, 16, won the European lead-climbing championship last summer and finished second in the 2006 lead-climbing World Cup series. 3/12/07 - Despite a lingering finger injury, David Graham is firing on all cylinders in Spain. Last month, he redpointed two 5.14c routes in a single day at the Spanish crag Terradets, and then, two weeks later, redpointed a 5.14d. 3/09/07 - By the end of February 2007, if you had asked any of the international “talent” in Argentinean Patagonia what kind of season it was, they would have said “not so good” or “very unstable” or “too windy and cold.” 3/06/07 - Switzerland’s Ueli Steck has soloed the classic 1938 route on the North Face of the Eiger in 3 hours 54 minutes. 3/05/07 - Americans Ryan Nelson and Crystal Davis-Robbins made the first ascent of the South Face of Aguja de L'S in Patagonia, via one of the steepest lines in the range. 3/05/07 - Ben Nevis, the capital of Scottish winter climbing, witnessed an explosion of high-end activity late last week, on the final day of the British Mountaineering Council’s International Winter Meet. 2/21/07 - Americans Zack Smith and Josh Wharton made a bold attempt to climb the Southeast Ridge of Cerro Torre in Patagonia without using the protection bolts that were power-drilled by Cesare Maestri during his 1970 attempt on the granite needle. 2/21/07 - Daniel Woods and Alex Puccio repeated as the U.S. bouldering champions at the ABS 8 National Championship. 2/17/07 - On a quick trip to Sonora, California, Emily Harrington made an ascent of Burning Down the House, a 5.14b established by her coach, Justen Sjong, at the blocky limestone crag of Jailhouse. 2/17/07 - A small team of American women will head to Asia this summer to train Pakistani women in mountaineering skills. 2/13/07 - Hans Johnstone and Stephen Koch have climbed a 1,000-foot new mixed route on the Grand Teton’s lower North Face. 2/12/07 - A German-Venezuelan team established a 20-pitch free route up the North Pillar of Acopan Tepui in Venezuela in December. 2/07/07 - Evgeny Kryvosheytsev from Ukraine and Jenny Lavarda from Italy won the North Face Ice Climbing World Cup in Switzerland last weekend. 2/05/07 - Mugs Stump Award sponsors, Black Diamond Equipment, Patagonia, Climbing Magazine, Mountain Gear, and W.L. Gore, announce the recipients of the 2007 Mugs Stump Award. 2/05/07 - Slovenians Tomaz Jakofcic and Grega Lacen scraped up a major new variation on the North Face of Fitz Roy in Patagonia, then traversed the mountain in a brutal storm. 2/03/07 - Lisa Rands sent the high and hard This Side of Paradise (V10), making the fourth ascent of this problem in the Buttermilks, near Bishop, California. 2/01/07 - Chris Hunnicutt, a 32-year-old Salt Lake City climber, lost his life on Tuesday, January 30th while climbing Stairway to Heaven (WI5) in Provo Canyon. 1/11/07 - Bradford Washburn, one of the key figures of American mountaineering in the 20th century, died last night at a retirement home near Boston. He was 96. 1/31/07 - Benoît Dubois won the second Challenge Millet in Québec, leading 26 overhanging mixed climbs in three hours on the scruffy cliffs of Saint-Alban. 1/30/07 - Greg Child, Jared Ogden, and Mark Synnott have climbed a new, mostly free route on the overhanging northern prow of Mt. Roraima in Guyana. 1/27/07 - The first ascent of Chomo Lhari’s 6,000-foot Northwest Pillar by Slovenians Boris Lorencic and Marko Prezelj won the 16th Piolet d’Or, the annual prize awarded in France for the year’s “best” alpine climb. 1/25/07 - For the second time this season, an international team has claimed the first ascent of the highest unclimbed peak in Antarctica’s Sentinel Range. 1/23/07 - The Canadian-American trio of Chris Brazeau, Crystal Davis-Robbins, and Jon Walsh have climbed two probable new routes on peaks north of the Cerro Torre group in Patagonia. 1/22/07 - Free skier Chris Davenport has succeeded in an ambitious quest to ski all 54 of the Colorado 14'ers in less than 12 months. 1/19/07 - Access to Hueco Tanks State Historic Site, the world-class bouldering area outside El Paso, Texas, might be at risk with a proposed transfer of ownership of roughly 20 parks and historical sites in the Lone Star State. |
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