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On 03/11/2024 French climber Caroline Ciavaldini repeated ‘Greenspit (8b/+) in Valle dell’Orco, Italy. On Tuesday 29th of October, Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl repeated 'Magic Line' (5.14c /8c+) in Yosemite Valley, California. 25-year-old Yannick Flohé has repeated Janus (9a+) at Angerstein in the Frankenjura, Germany.
New multipitch climb on Pedra Longa in Sardinia
Oct 21, 2024 · South Tyrolean mountain guide Josef Hilpold has established a new multipitch on the famous Pedra Longa sea stack at Baunei in Sardinia. Called Giai amus a obiare, the 155-meter climb is split into 6 pitches and breaches difficulties up to 6b.It tackles a line through the band of yellow wall rock to the left of the excellent Cromosomi Corsari, with which it shares the first two bolts before ...
Lynn Hill / 25 years ago the first free ascent of The Nose on ...
Not even two hours. 1 hour, 58 minutes and 7 seconds to be precise. This is the almost incomprehensible time that Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell clocked up two days ago in setting the new speed record on the nigh 1000m-high The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite. As with all speed ascents, the duo adopted "everything goes" tactics that involve free climbing, simul-climbing and, wherever necessary ...
Lynn Hill, one of the greatest climbers of all times
23. October 2024. Climbing. 35m 13s. Traduci in. The video portrait of the legendary American rock climber Lynn Hill. The first free ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite, the first free ascent in under 24 hours, the first female 8b+, 5 Rock Master victories... undoubtedly one of the best and most influential climbers of all time.
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Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler, 40 years ago ...
Mount Everest, first climbed without supplementary oxygen by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler on 8 May 1978. At around 1:15 pm on May 8, 1978, precisely 40 years ago today, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler reached the summit of Everest without the use of supplementary oxygen. Up there on the 8848 meter high summit they took some pictures ...
Peter Habeler, 74, climbs Eiger North Face again with David Lama
Timeless mountaineering: aged 74 Peter Habeler, one of the world’s greatest mountaineers who in 1978 made the first ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen together with Reinhold Messner, has now climbed the North Face of the Eiger once again. In 1974 Habeler had climbed the mountain in record time with Messner, while now he repeated the route with another world famous alpinist, young ...
Alex Honnold: super solo on the Yosemite Triple
The news couldn't have made bigger waves: in Yosemite Alex Honnold has soloed the Triple Crown. This in its own right would be massive news, but there is more, since the 27-year-old climber from Sacramento linked Mount Watkins, El Capitan and Half Dome in a single, lightening fast push. More than 2000 meters of (difficult) granite face climbing.
Márek Holeček, Radoslav Groh survive Baruntse NW Face ordeal
Márek Holeček and Radoslav Groh from the Czech Republic are safely in Kathmandu after surviving what can only be described as an epic ordeal on the NW Face of Baruntse, the formidable 7129m peak in Nepal’s Himalaya. Last week Holeček, a two-times Piolet d’Or recipient, and Groh forged a new route up the mountain’s formidable NW Face in ...
Klaas Willems: Still Alive
Klaas Willems is a hugely talented Belgian rock climber who at birth was diagnosed with the hereditary lung disease Cystic Fibrosis. Despite all his struggles and setbacks, both physical and mental, Willems has constantly pushed his limits, "ignored the negative voices in my head" and always refused to give up.