5/17/13 - The National Park Service has released a decision regarding fixed anchors in Wilderness. The policy, called Director's Order #41, manages the use of fixed anchors in wilderness areas, including in major climbing areas like Yosemite, Grand Teton, Zion, Joshua Tree, and Canyonlands national parks.
5/14/13 - The 19-year-old Alexander Megos has climbed Corona (5.15a) in the Frankenjura, Germany.
5/13/13 - Pamela Pack and Patrick Kingsbury have established a new hard offwidth route in Indian Creek, Utah: Soul Assassin (5.12+ R, four pitches).
5/9/13 - On April 6, a group of climbers found a man hanging in climbing gear from a cliff on Mt. Hopkins in Santa Rita Mountains, south of Tucson, Arizona.
5/2/13 - On April 17, the Bureau of Land Management in Idaho proposed permanently banning climbing on 400 acres of the Castle Rock Interagency Recreation Area. This does not affect the neighboring and much larger City of Rocks.
5/3/13 - Jeremy Aslaksen and Paul Gagner have completed their sixth new route in the Fisher Towers of Utah in three and a half years. Mudzilla (V A3, 5 pitches) climbs a line up the northwest face of the King Fisher, between Dead Again and Hazing, linking thin features connected by short bolt ladders to a "money crack system that shoots uninterrupted to the cap rock," Gagner said.
5/1/13 - Twelve-year-old Harry Edwards has climbed Southern Smoke (5.14c), Red River Gorge, Kentucky.
5/1/13 - Alexander Megos has made the first ascent of Classified (5.15a/9a+), on the Holzgauerhaus Wall, Frankenjura, Germany. This is his second 5.15a redpoint.
Climbing asked partners, friends, and admirers of the late Layton Kor to write a few words in tribute: Jeff Achey, Pat Ament, Chris Archer, John Gill, Steve Komito, Jim McCarthy, Royal Robbins, Steve Roper
4/23/13 - Russian climber Evgeniya Malamid has onsighted Los Humildes pa Casa (5.14a) in Oliana, Spain.
4/23/13 - Nik Berry has redpointed a beautiful new nine-pitch route up the Fifi Buttress, just west of the Leaning Tower in Yosemite Valley. The new line, Final Frontier (5.13), is the free version of an aid climb (V 5.7 A3) of the same name, established by Dan and Sue McDevitt, Penny Black, and Brittany Griffith.
4/22/13 - Layton Kor, one of the most prolific and acomplished American climbers of the 1960s, has died at age 74. Kor had suffered from kidney failure and prostate cancer.
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