Desde las montañas

Mountain Lake Adventures Madison, WI Recreation

1/12/10 - The Copp-Dash Inspire Award, a major new grant program, has been created to honor the lives and storytelling abilities of Jonny Copp and Micah Dash, who died last spring in an avalanche in China along with young filmmaker Wade Dash.

1/12/10 - Albert Leichtfried and Benedikt Purner have climbed a desperately thin and steep 300-meter ice route that they believe is WI7+, making it the hardest pure ice climb in Austria, and one of the hardest in the world.

1/11/10 - Josh Wharton won the mixed-climbing competition at the 15th annual Ouray Ice Festival in southwestern Colorado for the second year in a row.

1/08/10 - White Mountains climbing guide Bayard Russell has snagged the first ascent of a stunning mixed route that has seen numerous attempts over the past few years.

1/04/10 - Fontainebleau local Vincent Pochon has repeated the V15 boulder problem The Island in France, established by Dave Graham in 2008, and he added two moves to the start.

12/18/09 - Italians Enrico Bonino and Nicolas Meli made three first ascents in the Khumbu region of Nepal in November and December 2009.

12/23/09 - The Italian-Swiss team of Simon Gietl and Roger Schali have climbed a difficult new route on the east face of Aguja Poincenot (3,002m/9,849') in Argentinean Patagonia.

12/22/09 - The rugged High Tatras mountains are east of the Alps, on the border between Poland and Slovakia.

12/22/09 - According to a Czech filmmaker working on a movie about Adam Ondra, the young climber has flashed Dave Graham’s problem Confessions (8B+/V14) at Cresciano, Switzerland.

11/21/09 - Joe Simpson, the English climber most famous for the "Touching the Void" accident in 1985 - and subsequent best-selling book and movie - has soloed a new route on the south face of Mera Peak in Nepal.

12/20/09 - Chris Sharma, reportedly super-close to completing his long-term project First Round, First Minute at Margalef, Spain, got snowed out of that crag and traveled to Santa Linya, where he proceeded to redpoint another mega-project: Neanderthal (tentatively given 9b/5.15b).

12/18/09 - Dan Corn and Kevin Mahoney attempted to ski the 8,000-foot south face of Denali this past spring.

12/16/09 - The search for two missing climbers on Mt. Hood in Oregon has been suspended because of high avalanche danger on the mountain.

12/11/09 - Canadian ice climber Guy Lacelle died Thursday in an avalanche in Hyalite Canyon, Montana, while climbing a snow gully between climbs.

12/09/09 - For the second year in a row, Jimmy Webb, a Chattanooga, TN, transplant finished first overall in the Men’s Open at the Southeast’s one and only Triple Crown Bouldering Series held at the Stone Fort finale last weekend.

12/07/09 - Martin Ploug and Kristoffer Szilas completed the first ascent of "Ren Zhong Feng" in Sichuan, China, south of the Minya Konka group.

12/02/09 - Stevie Haston flashed the granite roof crack Greenspit in northern Italy, first climbed by Didier Berthod and repeated a couple of times since. The route had been rated 5.14a.