Action Directe is one of those iconic problems that I don’t really think you can see too much footage of people climbing. Check out Euroclimbing.com for footage of Adam Ondra on his recent repeat of this classic 5.14d. Not the greatest footage, but the cool photos make up for it.
Continue reading...21. May 2008
15 year old Adam Ondra has repeated Wolfgang Gullich’s Action Directe (5.14d) in Germany’s Frankenjura. Read more at Czechclimbing and climbing.com.
Continue reading...13. May 2008
I have another interesting topic for discussion tomorrow, but in the meantime here are a few links for your perusal: If you enjoy salivating over the posts at the Betabase blog, you should consider checking out the blog of Justin Alarcon. In this post, he spends the day bouldering in The Valley with Beth Rodden and [...]
Continue reading...5. May 2008
Not much Earth shattering news going down lately but here are a few things to check out from the past few weeks: Joe Kinder prepared nicely for his 2 month trip to Spain with his recent FA of Golden Direct (5.14c/d) at the Cathedral in Utah. You can read more about it here, here and here. [...]
Continue reading...25. March 2008
Apparently climbing 3 hard 5.14s in one day wasn’t enough for young Adam Ondra. Here is some video that Jamie Emerson captured of the young Czech climbing prodigy repeating Fred Nicole’s classic boulder Dreamtime (V14) in Cresciano, Switzerland.
Continue reading...17. March 2008
15 year old Adam Ondra continues to amaze. In the course of one day he sent Sanjski Par Extension (5.14d), Človek e jezi se (5.14c) and Popolni mrk (5.14b) all at Slovenia’s Misja Pec. This comes on the heels of a stretch of 2 weeks in February where he sent 7 routes graded [...]
Continue reading...9. December 2007
Thanks to James for compiling this news In more sport climbing news: Patxi Usobiaga: repeated La Rambla (9a+) on Nov 27, 2007 at Siurana, Spain. The route had its first ascent by Ramón Julian Puigblanque and had been repeated by Edu Marin, Chris Sharma, and Andreas Bindhammer. Many of the climbers used different beta, where at one point, [...]
Continue reading...6. August 2007
As usual, I go out of town and a ton of things happen: Last week Ty Landman visited Squamish and did what he normally does, which is climb hard problems. He did 1 V13 and a couple of V12’s including one flash. Throw in a handful of V10’s and V11’s and I think most [...]
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23. May 2008
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