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 Lee Cossey Sends Three El Cap Free Routes
25 year old Australian Lee Cossey spent two months in Yosemite this fall. During his stay he succeeded in climbing three major El Cap free routes. These ascents are even more remarkable, considering that Lee and his partner Lawry Dermody did each individual route in single push and never used any fixed ropes. |
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Mammut Expedition to Malaysia
91 routes in nine days – this is the result of this year’s mission to Malaysia organized by Mammut. David Lama and Reini Scherer, who participated in the mission took over a week to carve out two completely new climbing sectors in the State of Perlis. |
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New 8c+ Route in Slovenia
In the crag of Bohinjska Bela, Slovenia, Slovenian climber Matej Sova equipped a project back in 1999 but due to the often wet hold on the crucial part of the route he didn't manage to climb it. |
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New Dolomites route in “modern old style”
When climbing in Tofana di Rozes early this summer I inspected huge overhangs and roofs on the right side of Pilastro di Rozes. There were no routes crossing those overhangs. The idea was born... |
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New hard free routes in the Alps and the Tatra Mountains
On the last weekend of August Dušan „Stoupa“ Janák successfully freeclimbed the route Voie Petit on Grand Capucin (3838 m). On September Janák climbed another hard route Jet Stream on the south-east face of Jastrabia veža in the Slovakian High Tatras. |
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New hard route in Mišja Peč
Matej Sova has added the new 45-meter long route Ekstaza 8c+/9a to the famous crag of Mišja Peč in Osp (Slovenia). The new line is an extension of the route Človek ne jezi se, a hard and technical 8c route which ends in the middle of the face of Mišja Peč. |
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New Hard Route in Zion!
The team of Mike Anderson and Rob Pizem established another hard free route in Zion National Park this February. |
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New route on Alberta’s North Face
No one ascends or attempts Mount Alberta expecting superlative climbing. Present-day climbers are well aware that the approach is arduous, the weather foul, and the rock dangerously loose. Yet, like the north face of the Eiger, Mount Alberta continues to attract ambitious mountaineers who regard the challenge of a difficult route simply too great to resist. |
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New route on Cho Oyu, solo in a single push
Pavle Kozjek climbed a new route on the south-west face of Cho Oyu (8201 m) in the Tibetan Himalaya, climbing the route solo in single push from Advanced Base Camp at 6200 meters on the Gyabrag Glacier directly to the summit in 14.5 hours. |
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New Route on Eiger
With this first freeclimb on August 30, 2008 of the most difficult sportsclimbing route in the Eiger Northface, named „Paciencia“, the year of the Eiger-Anniversary comes to a worthy end. Ueli Steck and Stephan Siegrist finish a long lasting project. |
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New routes in the Miyar Valley
The Miyar Valley, located in the Indian part of the Great Himalaya,
stretches for over 100km (c. 62 miles), from Udaipur to the Khang La
mountain pass. The locals, the Tharanga people, are mainly shepherds
and farmers. They gladly help rare expeditions visiting the place and
so did not hesitate to help also our second Polish expedition (Michał
Król and Przemek Wójcik) to the valley. |
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